The Poetry Cubicle

Basic Beliefs and Core Purposes

Recognising that learning and life resources can consist of a broad and expanding array of traditional and contemporary tools ranging from basic scrawled or nearly illegible handwritten texts such as that which the Designated Library Authority's mother produces as a medical Dr, through to printed text and digital electronic media and formats we can not yet articulate, the Library exists as a structure which enables it to provide the most comprehensive, efficient, flexible and Fluxible integrated resources and services.

The Library is philosophically committed to fostering freedom of inquiry.

The Library stresses world-mindedness and serves the non-traditional as well as traditional seeker of knowledge and truth.

The Library seeks to provide the information resources and services which are necessary to support, explore and engage in negotiating life experience and to help Members gain a command of the varieties of information and resources which are vital to lifelong self-fulfillment, intellectual and esthetic enrichment and growth.

The Library facilitates the interaction between users of information and recorded knowledge to the degree possible, without geographic limitations and within human, economic and Designated Library Authority limitations.

It must be recognised that the Library is more than a collection of books; it is a growing organism and is a collection of informational materials, arranged in a manner and womanned by personnel to make that material readily available.

The services of the Library complement the educational, social, moral, immoral, physical and intellectual and other development of an individual Member.

The Library offers point-of-use instruction, personal assistance and hindrance when required, in conducting research in the Library and accessing the Library at all times when it is open at convenient and inconvenient hours and locations except when it is conveniently closed.

The Mission of The Poetry Cubicle Library is:

To provide access to print and non-print records of a Lost and Forgotten poetry-like nature needed and not knowingly needed by members of a specific community at a Present Moment.

To supply reading and other experiences by which a Member may be encouraged to form the habit of self-education and to see the Library as a facility for self-education.

To provide an archival repository for the correspondence, records, publications and other materials derived from the ongoing work of humans producing items of a Lost and Forgotten poetry-like nature.

To provide access to current forms of information including print, audio-visual, electronic/digital together with the appropriate organisation, equipment and delivery methods to ensure that such material is available to a Member who by means of the unique historical, cultural, geographic and personal characteristics of the community, region and life in which she is located may not otherwise gain access to such knowledge, resources and inter-culture sharing.

Guiding Principles

To view the Library as a dynamic system requiring continuous evaluation and adjustment in order to provide the flexibility to accommodate changing geo-spatial, existential, post-structural and individual Member and Designated Library Authority demands.

To resist attempts to censor information.

To acquire and preserve recorded knowledge needed to support the Mission of The Library and provide the tools to support and provide access to this knowledge for the self-education and research needs of the Library and Members of the Library.

To provide the maximum possible access to information and use of the Collection, under the principles governing the Purpose of the Library, so that the greatest number of Members can be satisfied in their Library needs, yet recognising the unique needs of some individuals.

To ensure both bibliographical and physical access to the body of recorded knowledge and information of a Lost and Forgotten poetry-like nature needed to support the instructional programs, research efforts, social responsibilities and investigations of humans.

Goals

Improving and expediting the collecting and processing of Library materials through innovative, traditional and non-traditional methods.

Identifying and acquiring or otherwise making available library materials in formats.

Assisting Members in the understanding of the organisation of Library resources and utilising Library services.

Developing better, brighter, brilliant ways to offer Library resources and to provide additional and or otherwise accidental services for Members as a means of improving quality of life.

Enhancing the knowledge of libraries, the role of libraries and librarians in communities, societies, cultures and worlds as we know and do not know them.

Promoting and creating constructive working relationships with other libraries and librarians and related organisations, humans, vegetables, minerals and other organic life forms to obtain access to resources and to effect development of programs of many kinds that meet the needs, and anticipate the future needs, of Members and future members. In order to increase the ability of the Library to provide the resources and services needed and not yet knowingly needed by its Members, co-operative and un-co-operative relationships between other agencies, libraries, organisations, soup kitchens, individuals and owners of couches are considered a necessary part of this process.

Participating in the support and development of networks and other resource sharing arrangements for the reciprocal exchange of ideas, notions, theories, concepts, cheese sandwiches and Library material(s).

To make material(s) accessible by:

1. Setting them free bibliographically;

2. Organising them into collections and maintaining means of access to them by exploring and developing and challenging the accepted and non-accepted standards and practice of classification, cataloguing and access modes.

To provide an effective means for the Circulation of and access to Library material(s) and to ensure their return for the benefit of other and future Members.

To generate awareness of and interest in knowledge and truth seeking and searching, classifying, categorising, and models of search, classification and categorisation among humans.

To plan and execute the physical arrangement of Library services and access.

To participate in other types of resource sharing as is feasible.

To maintain an organisational structure and operation conducive to the effective pursuit of the Library's Mission.

To maintain exit security and strategy to protect the continued existence of Library material(s) and the Librarian.

Collection

Policies of selection, retention, disposal, misplacement and deterioration reflect the current state of the world. Materials selected for the Library reflect the experiences of a Lost and Forgotten poetry-like nature through a range of subjects, periods, cultures and languages, to enable Library members to understand and explore the breadth and depth of human experience and knowledge. Each item in the Collection does not have to justify its continued existence. As a Member of the Collection it is in existence. Ideas contained within an item in the Collection may be considered, at other Present Moments and by others, to be outdated and no longer useful. As containers of ideas, items exist in the Collection because the Library considers all ideas as potential.

The Library does not deign to mark, allocate, decide, or reside as arbiter upon, what may be considered in or out of date, useful or useless in the Present Moment nor what may be considered in or out of date, useful or useless by the Future. The Library does deign to mark, allocate, decide, and reside as arbiter upon, what may constitute Lost and Forgotten in deeming an item suitable for addition to the Library Collection. The Library does deign to mark, allocate, decide, and reside as arbiter upon, what may constitute a poetry-like nature in deeming an item suitable for addition to the Library Collection.

In assessing this arbitration process, when new material(s) may be about to be added to the Collection the Library takes in to consideration whether one or more of the following is represented in said material(s):

The work will be unique in the Collection; There is a lack of reputation of the work in its field; The work remains unknown to many; The creator of the work remains unknown to many; The creator of the work is dead; The creator of the work is nearly dead; The creator of the work is forgotten; The creator has forgotten the work; The creator of the work claims to be a poet; The creator of the work is known and has a reputation as a poet; The creator of the work is considered a poetical under dog, lost, forgotten, or denounced poet or simply great, bad, mad and downright dangerous poet; The work is not included as a title in published indexes; The work has no ISBN, ISSN or other distinguishing formal mark or classification identity; The work is of a uniquely produced nature; The work has been limited in terms of publication and distribution; The work is of a physically light weight nature and or in paperback looseleaf format (this category applies only when considering items if the Library is located far from the site of storage of its overall repository); The work may be considered by the general unwashed masses to consist of an eccentric or eclectic nature; The work is produced using non-traditional methods of printing and or distribution or the work exists in a non-traditional or alternative format; The work is in a language other than the English Language; The work amuses the Designated Library Authority at that Present Moment; The work is deemed likely to become Lost and Forgotten in the Future.

Materials in the Collection serve as a seed-bed for, and may seek to represent, the culture of our world(s). The Library hopes that perusal of such material(s) may enable a Member to:

1. Recognise the intrinsic worth of other individuals;

2. Gain an awareness, intelligent or otherwise, of world and other cultures, conditions, events and issues;

3. Gain an understanding of her responsibilities and rights as a citizen in a democratic culture and understand the missing rights and responsibilities of other citizens in other non-democratic cultures;

4. Gain a love of learning sufficient to promote her continued intellectual growth, which comes out of participating in sharing knowledge.

The Library acquires and maintains an intellectually imbalanced Collection to support the personal enrichment, education and research goals of an individual who may seek to join the Library.

Resources shall be excluded from the Library because of the unlike Lost & Forgotten or poetry-like origin, background or view of those contributing to their creation.

Efforts are made to identify and apprehend misplaced Library material(s) and misplacers of material. The replacement of such objects or holdings within the Library or directly placing misplacers in the Library by adding and cataloguing them to the Library will also be considered upon subsequent consideration as and when necessary.

Services and Procedures

The service function of the Library is to assist Members in obtaining needed or not knowingly needed information of a Lost and Forgotten poetry-like nature.

Membership of the Library is Free.

Membership of the Library is limited to all humans, vegetables, minerals and other organic forms upon successfully undergoing Joining procedures.

Borrowing material(s) from the Library is limited to members of the Library only.

Materials in the collection are made available to Library users through established, announced and pronounced Circulation procedures as detailed in the Library Bye Bye-Laws.

Joining procedures are undergone by all new Members.

Circulation procedures are negotiated under Library Bye Bye-Laws which are provided to all new Members of the Library (unless accidentally misplaced, forgotten or unable to be photocopied by a Designated Library Authority at that Present Moment) under which all Members are governed when entering and engaging with the Library.

Borrowing of material(s) is limited to the Present Moment, or as long as a Library Member and Designated Library Authority are in the same place at the same time.

Borrowing terms are negotiable only by an individual Library Member bothering to read the small print on Library Membership Cards.

Facilities

Within the limits of an architectural or other defined space made available to the Library in the Present Moment of its existence, the Library endeavours to provide the easiest possible access to the Collection and an atmosphere.

The Collection is installed as systematically as Space, Present Moment, Geographical location, Context, and Designated Library Authority mood, allow.

The Library shall review space, time, and collection needs and plan for changing circumstances on an ongoing basis based on the Present Moment Time, Space, Collection and Designated Library Authority food, sleep, ablution, reading, writing, research and life needs.

Staff Anal Retention Policies

The Library Staff shall be organised in a way that permits easy and rapid communication for the interchange of ideas.

The Library Staff shall consist of one.

This one shall be known as a Library Officer or Librarian.

The Librarian or Library Officer may be appointed only by a Designated Library Authority.

The Designated Library Authority has the power to disemploy, cajole, rescind eating rights, and otherwise make life difficult or in fact easy for The Librarian.

The Library Staff must love The Designated Library Authority.

The Library Staff must not bite the hand that does not feed it but may consider ways of otherwise engaging with that hand.

The Library Staff reserves, alright?