Library / Shelving area use proposal

10/25/2025 - Library / Shelving Area Use Proposal

Decluttering the Old Library & Discussing New Ideas For Shelving Space

Person or group submitting

• The Bookshelf Steward Committee (Road + Nathalie)

Proposal History

Motivation (why are you proposing this?)

Proposal summary

• Cleaning up the old library and starting a discussion among working groups on how to collectively steward the space

Details

Background info

The shelving area used to serve as a library with books on an assortment of topics revelant to the space where people could borrow books and return them. After the library was disimantled, what seems to be left is a lot of items people left there. 

Group(s) this proposal will affect

All working groups, perhaps because some or all of the items belong to individuals from various working groups

Labor required

For people to appropriately remove the items they want to keep and for us to be able to toss/curb unclaimed items. 

Individual or group doing labor

The Bookshelf Steward Committee, and other people from other working groups 

Money required

None

Proposal Description (and variations)

The Bookshelf Steward Committee proposes the old library should NOT continue being used as an all-inclusive storage space and we should instead clear the area of unclaimed items in order to begin the process of discussing in future Bookshelf Steward Committee meetings (which will be open for anyone to attend) about how the space can be instead used for a purpose that is beneficial to all working groups, without people fighting over claiming the space for their working group.

A) Cute name for a specific proposal

Shelf Improvement

B) Cute name for a specific proposal

Let's Not Be Shelfish About The Old Library

C) Cute name for a specific proposal

Novel Approaches To Shelf Autonomy