From Wednesday on, PaganSoc’s Coffee Morning will move to Thursday from 12-3pm, but will still be in Room 3.

The late night event (movies, workshops, etc.) will now be on Wednesday, still at 6pm.

You will notice this change in future newsletters, posters and site updates.

Anyone who has ideas or just topics of events they would like to have us run contact us as usual at ucdpagan@gmail.com.

Just a quick note:

To those with Samhain pictures don’t forget you can upload them to http://pagansoc.com/wp-gallery2.php or you can email them to ucdpagan@gmail.com.

I hope you all enjoy your weekend and don’t forget we’re still looking for more people interested in becoming Librarian.

As some of you will know efforts have been made to (finally) establish the PaganSoc’s library. The first step has been made; we have managed to get space for a locker between Th.A and Th.B on the first floor.

The next steps will be to find a Librarian and get books. To that end PaganSoc invites you all to email us (ucdpagansoc@gmail.com) and offer suggestions as to what book we should be buying.

Also in regards to the now open position of Librarian Article 14 of the constitution covers the duties of the position;

14. There shall be a Librarian of the Society. They shall be elected at the Annual General Meeting of the Society held in the Trinity Term. Their term of office shall be from the end of the Trinity Term in which they are elected until the same time the following year. The duties of the Librarian shall include (I’ve added comments to help describe things):

a) maintaining the Society Library
[Goes without saying]

b) ensuring that the Society Library has a varied collection of material, dealing with all denominations of Paganism within the Society in so far as the Society funds will allow
[Again straight forward enough, this would mean that you would have to work with the Treasurer/Auditor in order to get money for books]

c) ensuring that members have sufficient access to the Society Library so that they may borrow material from the Society Library
[In other words, you're Librarian 9 to 6, Monday to Friday. You'd never be expected to miss college work though, but you must be on-call whenever possible.]

d) managing the security deposit on materials within the Society Library
[Here's where we need someone reliable and trustworthy. You would have a second cash-box just of the security deposits, this means handling money, this is the one place where the Treasurer/Auditor would really be keeping an eye on you, but if you're honest you don't have to worry. Also be aware that it's up to you to get books back from those who borrowed them]

e) giving a report on the condition of the Society Library at the Annual General Meeting
[This would just be a basic report, books gained, books lost and problems, stuff like that]

f) liaising with the webmaster in the running of the Society Library
[I will be setting up an online monitoring system for the books. This would have a list of the books we have, would take in ISBN number of new books and be added to the list, books lost would have to be removed and, hopefully, the system could keep track of books on-loan. You would have to keep this up-to-date]

g) overseeing production of any society publications in the role of editor.
[Paths, if you haven't read any of them yet you can find them at http://pagansoc.com/society-information/paths/ You would be editor; in charge of getting articles (harder than it sounds) and publishing the finished product]

For those interested in the position email us at the usual address ucdpagan@gmail.com. Also don’t forget to check out our Resources page at http://pagansoc.com/resources/ where you’ll find a list of pagan-interest book available in the UCD Library and websites of interest.

The Observer, released today has an article by Niamh O’Keeffe, “Trick or Truth”.

We come-off quite well and it is quite worth reading.

I will post a transcript as soon as I can.

Hey everyone,

Next Thursday (18th October) at 7.30am is the weekly rip, but this one is the one before Samhain. Now we have glossy posters to go up and I’d like to see them actually go up. What would help that would be for as many people as possible to meet outside the library that morning at that time to poster.

If you are interested email me at ucdpagan@gmail.com

Someone at today’s Coffee Morning left a book after them.

Email ucdpagan@gmail.com with details if it was yours.

Thursdays is the “Rip”, where all the posters are removed and new ones are postered. Lacking in OCMs PaganSoc is looking for people willing to give an hour (8-9pm Thursday morning).

If you are interested email ucdpagan@gmail.com

Hey all,

Please don’t hate me, this is just what we societies have to go through regularly. Yes, the room for the Con Connor ‘Tara’ talk on Tuesday has been moved yet again. Services had somehow managed to double-book our room, and it’s only by sheer luck that we discovered this. So now we’ve been moved back to Agricultural Science, but not G15. We are in room 116. That’s up the stairs in front of you as you enter Ag through the main entrance. Then turn left and it’s facing you. I am very sorry about this, but it’s better we find out now than at 7pm tomorrow.

I still hope to see you there, and promise you won’t hear from me again until next Monday,
Regards,
Cheryl-Anne

Just a quick note to remind you all that college is nearly once again upon us, and that means Freshers Week is close at hand. Now we here at PaganSoc are well aware that you are people with wide and ranging interests, so in an effort not to dominate your time we will be spreading our events out over two weeks. Our unofficial Freshers Forthnight begins with Freshers Week on Monday the 18th September, and continues until Friday the 29th September. We hope there will be something to tempt you, at a time that’ll suit you. See you there!

The following was added after the events by Ryan Gannon on the 06-09-2008 for the purpose of recording PaganSoc’s history in as full a manner as possible.

The UCD Pagan Society Established Today