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__**April 9, 2014**__

1. Names and Stories - due Thursday April 17th for booklet

2. Orienting Students - explanation, practice, friendly faces, water >
 * Students - Arrive at 10 am
 * Introduce each other
 * Overview of process
 * Hand out T-shirts - Talk to Kim/Greg
 * Speed Round
 * Volunteers
 * 2-3 people to take readers to books - books are at the tables (hand out feedback form)
 * Renee - 3 volunteers; Tamara - 2-3 volunteers; Faculty complement - 4
 * 2 people manning sign up table
 * timer


 * Set Up (Annique) - Everyone the afternoon of the 28th
 * Sign up table outside the room - 2 people manning it.
 * Set up two rooms
 * 3 slots of 20 minutes with 5 minutes in between
 * Refer to booklet
 * Poster of differences
 * Sign for Human Library
 * Tent card with Story title and student name
 * Jugs of water and plastic cups on tables
 * Candies for bowls
 * Tables in groups of four - tablecloths, centre pieces, candies
 * TV with video running
 * session 1: 10:50-11:10; session 2 11:15-11:35; session 3 11:40-12:00
 * Sign Up (Tamara & Renee & Jill)
 * Sign up registration for book to get started
 * E-mail to go out before conference letting people know about book options and sign up at registration
 * Feedback
 * paper form - short distributed at the end of 20 minutes
 * include questions on official feedback - did you participate, would you again, what was most valuable, any suggestions
 * Opening in Alumni Hall
 * Introduce idea and show short clip
 * Promotion for next year
 * Book shaped card with info for next year


 * __March 19, 2004 Meeting Notes__**
 * Participants:** Jill Dunlop, Suzie Addison-Toor, Renee Ferguson, Cindy Korpatnicki, Tamara Fisher-Cullen, Annique Boelryk


 * 1. Tamara - Conceptualization of human library; What worked; Suggestions**
 * CBC - January - premise - conceptualization - intercultural dialogue, advancing human rights
 * Ontario Library Association
 * Human Library .org
 * International students - can feel quite marginalized - language and culture are not their own; **identity** process can involve a crisis of figuring who they are; opportunity to share stories; at the heart of it, it’s about people, had a big impact on people. Hope was that the “borrowers” would benefit but the greater benefit was to the “books’;
 * **Empowerment** methodology
 * Connections
 * Human Library at Cardiff video

The overall purpose of the human library as part of the FoTC is to: Courage and Connectedness: Understanding the lived experiences of the people in our classrooms
 * 2. Brainstorm ideas**
 * help faculty see the “people” behind the students (I'm pretty sure we had a later version of this, but it doesn't seem to be captured)
 * provide opportunities for students to share their experiences as a human being
 * learning through experiential learning
 * break down stigmas and biases related to student differences
 * students with disabilities
 * international students
 * mature students
 * single parents
 * first generation
 * aboriginal
 * transgendered
 * mental health issues
 * provide an example of experiential learning through the event of the human library
 * Theme**:


 * Draft Description of Library:**

Poster of differences Provide the borrowers with questions
 * Ideas:**
 * What was the most rewarding aspect of your experience?
 * How have these experiences shaped you?
 * What did you learn about yourself through the experience?
 * What would you like others to learn from you and your experience?
 * What does your experience mean for life going forward?

4 slots of 20 minutes; 14 students per slot; each student shares twice
 * 3. Process of soliciting student stories**
 * 20 minute conversations
 * Help them determine what story they want to tell.
 * What are their experiences at Georgian?
 * Help students to have a conversations about their experience.
 * General story with a “title” and summary


 * Group 1 || Group 2 || Group 1 || Group 2 ||

28 students “Book” title and 2-3 sentence synopsis. Template for thinking about story Students will get lunch, parking, letter, certificate Other support roles -

Tamara will send out template by Friday March 21st Annique will set up wiki space to collect info/ideas Tamara and Annique to draft a description and info for the brochure. By Friday April 4th, students identified and story “titles” identified. Meet once more the week of April 7th
 * 4. General timeline/plan/meeting dates**
 * quotes from students and faculty
 * description