Mapping Baybrook: Puzzling Together a History

Title: Mapping Baybrook: Puzzling together a History

Logo: Pieces of a puzzle that say Bay and Brook on them, so they are part of a larger puzzle.

Mission Statement: “To bring together the community of Baybrook by remembering the past, documenting the present and looking towards the future”.

Event Description:  (What I would like to see at the event):
                1. Art area with crafts that kids can take home as well as puzzle pieces that members of the community are invited to decorate with what it means to them to be part of the Baybrook community. The puzzle pieces are welcome to be made by children of all ages (i.e. adults too).
                2. Music/entertainment performed by local bands/comedians that will perform for little to no money. Not only will this get their name out to the public but will be good practice for them. (Involve UMBC bands and comedians).

Committee Structure:
                1. Food/entertainment: contact people to perform at low cost, and ensure food that will be prepared is ready for the day of the event.
                2. Fundraising committee: work with the budget and decide what products to create and how to effectively sell them. (This includes bake sales and fundraising on campus).
                3. Public Relations committee: get word of the event out to the public to ensure attendance at the event will be a good amount.

Revenue Producing Products:
                *T-shirts to be sold at 5$ more than the cost to produce each.
                * Buttons to be sold at 2$ more than the cost to produce each individually.
                *Flyers (which will get the word of the event out to the public, to be brought to all fundraising events on and off campus)
                *Bake sale products: cookies, cupcakes, brownies, lemonade etc. Prices to be determined by the cost to produce, donations will be available also.

Budget: I am terrible with budgeting, so I prefer to leave this up to those who work well with money and are good at budgeting.

Schedule:                 1. Buy t-shirts and buttons ASAP to sell at every fundraising event on and off campus.
                2. Bake sales (weekly? Bi-weekly?) also starting ASAP to raise money, possible to work with the Noche Vida guy at the library to raise money.

Feasibility Statement: I believe this project is something that can be accomplished in one semester as it seems very basic but has the potential to help the community grow into something of a tighter knit group. Problems that could arise are people not feeling like the theme of “puzzling together a history” is appropriate for Baybrook, as well as people’s lack of creativity in the designing and decorating of puzzle pieces to be displayed throughout the community.

Research Project:

Libraries are some of the most important buildings within a community as they hold so much information and imagination to be used by the community. A library within a community can become a hub of personality, a place for youth to commune and feel safe as well as a place for adults to keep their childhood imagination afloat via fiction novels. I want to research the public library of Baybrook to discuss the aesthetically pleasing visual appearance as well as the level of involvement the library has with the community. I am a lover of libraries and have created a check list in my mind of the things a library must contain in order for it to be considered a good library. I will look at this library in two ways, first in my own personal judgment of the libraries aesthetic characteristics and second in relation to how it works within the community as a base of operation for study and leisure.