"Transition Texts" - a K2K bookshelf at Kilburn Library
Sorry I've been slow to post this following last week's bookclub meeting.
Karl, the manager of Kilburn Library, has very kindly offered K2K a shelf's worth of space at the library for Transition Town books and DVDs. I am really delighted about this: it offers TK2K a great opportunity to reach out to all the users of Kilburn Library, and really plays to the Transition Town concept of working with and building up our existing local community resources - in this case, our local library.
The shelf is well located within the library and will have space in the first instance for about two dozen books and DVDs. My suggestion is that we should assemble a little collection of up to 24 "Transition Texts" from donations by members of the book group and others, and donate it to the library. The library will then look after the collection in the same way as all its other books, handling all the cataloguing, borrowing by library members and so on.
I would like to suggest that we use this forum space to see if we can agree and assemble the first 24 "Transition Texts" (books and DVDs) for the collection.
What is a Transition Text? Well, that's up for discussion, but I suggest a good starting point would be the resources section/bibliography at the back of the Transition Towns Handbook, which lists over a hundred books and films recommended by Rob Hopkins as informing some aspect of the Transition Towns concept.
I have looked through the list and spotted that I already own four of the books in it. I am willing to donate three of them to the collection, as follows.
Lynas, M (2007): Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet (paperback, good condition)
Monbiot, G (2007): Heat: how to stop the planet burning (hardback, good condition)
Fleming, D (2005): Energy and the common purpose: descending the energy staircase with Tradable Energy Quotas (pamphlet, good condition).
(I also have James Lovelock's "Revenge of Gaia", but wouldn't like to part with it as it's a signed & dedicated copy.)
I will also donate my copy of the TT Handbook.
If we are willing to consider books which are not in the TT Handbook's bibliography then I would also like to offer "Kyoto 2" by Oliver Tickell, "The Economical Environmentalist" by Prashant Vaze and "Prosperity without Growth" by Tim Jackson. All three are from 2009 and I'm sure would have been in the TT Handbook's list if they had been published at that time.
So that's maybe seven already. Over to you - can anyone else help?
Karl, the manager of Kilburn Library, has very kindly offered K2K a shelf's worth of space at the library for Transition Town books and DVDs. I am really delighted about this: it offers TK2K a great opportunity to reach out to all the users of Kilburn Library, and really plays to the Transition Town concept of working with and building up our existing local community resources - in this case, our local library.
The shelf is well located within the library and will have space in the first instance for about two dozen books and DVDs. My suggestion is that we should assemble a little collection of up to 24 "Transition Texts" from donations by members of the book group and others, and donate it to the library. The library will then look after the collection in the same way as all its other books, handling all the cataloguing, borrowing by library members and so on.
I would like to suggest that we use this forum space to see if we can agree and assemble the first 24 "Transition Texts" (books and DVDs) for the collection.
What is a Transition Text? Well, that's up for discussion, but I suggest a good starting point would be the resources section/bibliography at the back of the Transition Towns Handbook, which lists over a hundred books and films recommended by Rob Hopkins as informing some aspect of the Transition Towns concept.
I have looked through the list and spotted that I already own four of the books in it. I am willing to donate three of them to the collection, as follows.
Lynas, M (2007): Six Degrees: our future on a hotter planet (paperback, good condition)
Monbiot, G (2007): Heat: how to stop the planet burning (hardback, good condition)
Fleming, D (2005): Energy and the common purpose: descending the energy staircase with Tradable Energy Quotas (pamphlet, good condition).
(I also have James Lovelock's "Revenge of Gaia", but wouldn't like to part with it as it's a signed & dedicated copy.)
I will also donate my copy of the TT Handbook.
If we are willing to consider books which are not in the TT Handbook's bibliography then I would also like to offer "Kyoto 2" by Oliver Tickell, "The Economical Environmentalist" by Prashant Vaze and "Prosperity without Growth" by Tim Jackson. All three are from 2009 and I'm sure would have been in the TT Handbook's list if they had been published at that time.
So that's maybe seven already. Over to you - can anyone else help?
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Permalink Reply by Chris Wells on
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Hi Richard,
nice work. I'm not sure I have any books (although I may have an old copy of E. F. Schumacher somewhere in the back of a cupboard I can donate).
Paul MG and I met this evening to discuss TT and the web and he mentioned a great idea that Belsize did with their library where they fixed stickers into the inside covers of the books they were sharing to promote their initiative to people who already had an interest.
We don't have a logo or brand yet which is something I'm hoping to talk to Jane about but perhaps, once we did, this would be a great way to do basic PR and promotions work to boost awareness of the campaign.
In addition, some sort of branding on the shelf space itself, whether that's simply a logo/badge or something a little more creative and impactful might be a cool way to attract people to the books as well as another area to increase recognition...
What does everyone think?
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Permalink Reply by George Latham on
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Looks fantastic Richard - really exciting to see this happen so quickly...
I have the following DVDs which could go into the pot:
- The End of Suburbia
- A Crude Awakening
- An Inconvenient Truth
- The Age of Stupid
- The Power of Community
- Who killed the electric car?
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Permalink Reply by Richard Walker on
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Thanks George. I note that five of those are listed in the Transition Towns Handbook, and I'm absolutely sure The Age of Stupid would have been if had been out in 2008.
Meanwhile I think "Who killed the electric car?" is a very topical film, given the recent revival of interest in electric cars, and is a really useful glimpse into how big business too often really does its business.
Have these films all been shown at the Lexi? This chimes with a question I had about an archive of previous events on the website, which I will post as a new post in the forum.
Meanwhile I hope everyone can keep those book options coming!
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We haven't shown 'Who killed the electric car' at the Lexi as yet - but I have it on the list for the future. Nor have we done An Inconvenient Truth or The Age of Stupid - taking the view that most of our normal audience have already seen them anyway. We've shown the other 3. George
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