I stopped by Woods Run yesterday and talked to Lauren – hm, this is a different Lauren – and scouted the area, and their shelf is in direct line of sight from the librarians’ desk, so it’d be reasonably well monitored, but still not entirely secure. (see attached photos – the tallest bookshelf is where they said they’d put it – the one with the plant on it – and you can see in the wider panorama that the desk is right there.)
I’d be reasonably comfortable leaving some of my own brick at Woods Run and/or Crafton if we went that route. Maybe not Mr. Gold, but regular stuff, sure. But I’m not going to push that unless others are also on board with leaving our personal collections in supervised but unsecured locations.
If we decide NOT to use our own brick at places where it’s not locked up, I can talk to Lauren from Crafton Library about using their brick and doing a Build Event – who’d be in on that?
Would there be interest in trying something similar at Woods Run? They have about 3 medium Sterilites’ worth of brick we could use… might be tough to come up with something great out of that, but maybe we could pull it off.
And yeah, teams make sense. But are we getting ahead of ourselves? I see interest from @timf, @hacim, @JoshHall, and @randomdan, plus myself – five builders could probably tackle Cranberry and one other branch (using our own brick), and maybe do one or two one-off build days on site with library brick…but I don’t want to commit us to that unless yinz are sure / we get more people saying they’re in.