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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Star here...</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Part of what we (myself and a few
other heralds who were at the plenary meetings) are trying to do with
the consultation tables is to remove the expectation from the populace that we
are a college of stunt heralds who for the mere price of around 15 bucks can doc
just about anything regardless of whether or not the experience for the
submitter contains any sort of educational value or the name and device are even
remotely, how shall I say this, show evidence of some sort of basic knowlege of
decent herarldy or medieval naming practices. Yes, many would say that I
am dreaming, but we owe it to our populace to create an environment for
learning.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Another part of what I am trying to do is to move
consulting tables to events where we are more likely to get attendance of people
who would use them. I say "I' because not everyone at the Plenary meetings
are Crown and Coronation regulars. My husband is a stick jock so we make
all of the Crowns and I love Coronation - we haven't missed one in a
while. I noticed that these events tend to be attended by a fairly
predictable crowd and use of the tables at these venues has significantly
decreased. Those heralds at the meetings whom I see at least once per
quarter at these events concurred.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>So, during the plenary meetings, we discussed how
we could improve the consulting tables. If each regional has to have one
table per year, we get five tables, one in each region. That is a minimum
- they can organize more. The tables need to be at indoor events or events
with indoors available. If we make them consulting only and not offer full
service, we can offer the use of books, the opportunity to help the client start
learning about heraldry and omonastics and to actually crack a book on their
own. They may leave with a form that needs only photocopying, or with some
resources to look up on their own. But the goal is to give them some help
with learning about heraldry. Regionals can and should accept
completed submissions at these tables. They can even offer full service if
they are confident that they have the resources to finish up the work in a
timely fashion.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>There will always be clients who just want someone
to do the work for them and sooner or later they will find a herald who will do
that. There are clients out there who genuinely want to learn and the
library being available five times per year is better than 4 times per year for
them to access. (Six if you count AHSS.)</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have taken it upon myself to organize at least
one full service table per year and unfortunately for Eclipse, I chose Warlord
and pretty much told him that it was going to be full service. Luckily for
me, my daughter just finished up school and has been coloring heraldic
submissions since she could more or less manage to color between the
lines. She, like many of you, has art work in the Laurel files. So,
I have some labor to get the stuff colored.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As for the library, I personally want to make sure
that we as a College have at least one copy of each item on the no photocopy
list as well as print outs of the sca.org name articles for the travelling
library and for those items not online one for Bordure. We have some
work to do on that. I know that this won't be accomplished during my time
as Star, but it is something that we can work on over time. I am in the
process of making sure that the articles that I printed have the complete URLs
on them. Once done, they will be added to the traveling or consulting
libary.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Later on, as Tressure sees fit, we can look at what
we want to do with the additional resources that are more fit for specialist
uses. But let's work on the basics first: get a complete set of no
photocopy resources and make sure that the tables start happening around the
kingdom.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I conducted one in the Western Region at Kindom
A&S, Southern had one at Candlemas, Central is at Warlord. That means
that Coastal and Northern are yet to go. I was at the first two and
they were well attended and there were clients who just sat and looked at books
to get ideas and a few who filled their forms out with some help. It is a
start.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>None of this is perfect and none of it will satisfy
everyone. But, we do have some advantages to this system. There are
more tables per year. There is less pressure to be a stunt herald, so more
heralds can start learning to consult by learning with the submitter as they
explore a new topic in naming or in heraldry. The submitters will have the
regional there, so if that person is their local herald, they can get help with
getting their forms up to Asterisk. We create an environment for learning,
where people can just some sit and look through the books, rather than feeling
the pressure of deciding quickly so that they next person can get to a herald to
get their forms filled out.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>As with all things, we can see how this process
works, find the good and capitalize on that and figure out the bad and see what
we can do to fix it.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>In the end, we hope to accomplish one very
important thing - somebody, somewhere learns something and that my friends is
one of the main reasons why we are here.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I hope that this helps to clarify
some.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Druinne</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>