Saturday, July 18, 2009
How to start a community Library? - Sandip K. Dasverma
Dear Pledger,
Thank you for your pledge to setup your dream library in your village/town/block/community.
Before we proceed to provide technical help on behalf of Bakul Library, Bhubaneswar, we would like to understand the situation that would help us move forward for successful setup of your dream library.
We need the following details:
0. How long you would be committed for the library in terms of time/money?
Life/5 years/10 years
1. List of five volunteers who can give commitment in terms of time for at least 2 years for your proposed library. Volunteers, should be able to provide at least 10 hours per week.
We need a commitment of 5 hours per day from 4:00PM-9:00PM from a group of five people for one week. For Saturday and Sunday the Library need to be opened between 10 am to 7 pm.
[We understand people have commitments in personal life, profession and or business. By selecting five or more people the load can be well balanced without losing any interest for your dream library.
You can target anybody who ever is interested. Some choices are
a. Retired people,
b. students from high school/college preferably from non-final year students,
c. some poor students who want to leverage library for their education and earn a nominal amount (e.g. Rs. 500/month)
2. Provide a location where you would like to setup the library. It may be rental or dedicated free house or room .
3. Do you have any furniture that can be used? If any let us know what you have.
4. How much you would like to fund initially to setup the library? 50 thou, 1 lakh or 1.5 lakh?
[ This would help us determining the kind of books, magazines, news papers, computer etc that can be bought ]
5. How much you would like to spend each month? Need at least Rs. 1000 (Rs. 500 per volunteer and Rs.500 for the rent.) preferably Rs. 2000 / month.
[ This would help for payments for the dedicated person and rent ]
6. What's the population in your village/Town/NAC ?
7. How many schools, high schools and colleges are there in your town/village or near by?
We would like you to schedule a visit to Bakul Library, by your selected volunteers, so that your volunteers can understand better the concept before implementing in the village.
Bakul shall schedule some time depending on availability after receiving your input/feedback.
Concept: There are four players.
1. You the sponsor – Financier willing to make one time capital investment of 50 thou and up.
2. The volunteer of your selected area/village, who you find and motivate. They may work completely free or partly free. But they will be the ones to ask you for the money and will make or break the project.
3. Bakul Foundation – Technical expertise. They will help with their cookie cutter library concept, which can be replicated in every corner of Orissa, at the beginning in order to start the library movement.
4. OSA: OSA volunteers will try to find one sponsor for each of the 314 blocks of Orissa.
Note: The above write up, has been developed with active inputs of Sujit Mahapatra, Bakul Foundation, Nishikanta Sahu of NH, USA and inputs from the active/enthusiastic participants of OSA seminar at Trenton, NJ.
Thank you for your pledge to setup your dream library in your village/town/block/community.
Before we proceed to provide technical help on behalf of Bakul Library, Bhubaneswar, we would like to understand the situation that would help us move forward for successful setup of your dream library.
We need the following details:
0. How long you would be committed for the library in terms of time/money?
Life/5 years/10 years
1. List of five volunteers who can give commitment in terms of time for at least 2 years for your proposed library. Volunteers, should be able to provide at least 10 hours per week.
We need a commitment of 5 hours per day from 4:00PM-9:00PM from a group of five people for one week. For Saturday and Sunday the Library need to be opened between 10 am to 7 pm.
[We understand people have commitments in personal life, profession and or business. By selecting five or more people the load can be well balanced without losing any interest for your dream library.
You can target anybody who ever is interested. Some choices are
a. Retired people,
b. students from high school/college preferably from non-final year students,
c. some poor students who want to leverage library for their education and earn a nominal amount (e.g. Rs. 500/month)
2. Provide a location where you would like to setup the library. It may be rental or dedicated free house or room .
3. Do you have any furniture that can be used? If any let us know what you have.
4. How much you would like to fund initially to setup the library? 50 thou, 1 lakh or 1.5 lakh?
[ This would help us determining the kind of books, magazines, news papers, computer etc that can be bought ]
5. How much you would like to spend each month? Need at least Rs. 1000 (Rs. 500 per volunteer and Rs.500 for the rent.) preferably Rs. 2000 / month.
[ This would help for payments for the dedicated person and rent ]
6. What's the population in your village/Town/NAC ?
7. How many schools, high schools and colleges are there in your town/village or near by?
We would like you to schedule a visit to Bakul Library, by your selected volunteers, so that your volunteers can understand better the concept before implementing in the village.
Bakul shall schedule some time depending on availability after receiving your input/feedback.
Concept: There are four players.
1. You the sponsor – Financier willing to make one time capital investment of 50 thou and up.
2. The volunteer of your selected area/village, who you find and motivate. They may work completely free or partly free. But they will be the ones to ask you for the money and will make or break the project.
3. Bakul Foundation – Technical expertise. They will help with their cookie cutter library concept, which can be replicated in every corner of Orissa, at the beginning in order to start the library movement.
4. OSA: OSA volunteers will try to find one sponsor for each of the 314 blocks of Orissa.
Note: The above write up, has been developed with active inputs of Sujit Mahapatra, Bakul Foundation, Nishikanta Sahu of NH, USA and inputs from the active/enthusiastic participants of OSA seminar at Trenton, NJ.
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