Anomaly Archives Monthly Meetup - January 28th, 2012

http://photos2.meetupstatic.com/photos/event/d/3/7/2/event_11934130.jpegGreetings and salutations to my fellow Anomalists!

The Anomaly Archives is now holding monthly meetings on the Fourth Saturday of most* months. The meetings will be held from 1-5pm on the fourth Saturday at the INACS / Anomaly Archives headquarters located in North West Austin just past the intersections of Research and Technology Boulevards (see bottom of email for detailed directions):

12593 Research Blvd., Suite 302,
Austin, Texas 78759

These meetings will be an opportunity for more of our Meetup members to come see the library first-hand. We are hoping many of you will be moved to become dues paying members so that you can not only read the books on-site but check-out books to take home and read at your leisure.

We'd like your help in making these monthly meetings as interesting and productive as possible. When we formed this online Meetup group we posted a couple of Online Polls for you to participate in. The vote tallies are below and reflect the voting results as of a couple days ago. Many of you are new to our group and we encourage you to participate and express your areas of interest regarding anomalies in general and future meetups in particular. For those of you who already filled out the polls, feel free to revisit them - perhaps your interests have changed since you first came to the group.

Anomaly Archives Online Polls

What would you most like to do with these MeetUps?
https://www.meetup.com/AnomalyArchives/polls/215789/

The Anomaly Archives has many events planned for the coming year. This Meetup Group is just one way for you to be kept informed about all of our upcoming activities. Events in the planning stages include Book Swap Meetings with Giveaways, Reading & Discussion Group Meetings, Lectures and Workshops, Field Investigations, Research Meetings, Movie and Documentary Screenings, General Chit Chat sessions and any thing else you can think of... On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "Least Interested" and 10 being "Most Interested", what types of Meetup Activities would YOU most like to participate in?

(Rate each option on a scale of 1-10, where 10 is best)

Book Swaps - Bring a book and exchange it with others (54%) Reading & Discussions - Meeting to discuss books read by the group (55%) Lectures & Workshops - Authors and Researchers share their investigations and analysis (80%) Investigative Training - Specialized education sessions related to specific anomalies research (60%) Field Investigations - Researching UFOs, Bigfoot, or Ghostly goings on (73%) Experimental Research - Planning and implementing specific scientific anomalies research (59%) General Chit Chat - Conversation over saucers ... or mugs and pitchers. Mind Meld over Migas. (76%)
What are you most interested in learning from the Anomaly Archives?
https://www.meetup.com/AnomalyArchives/polls/215773/

The Anomaly Archives main collection consists of over 2000 titles on a range of paranormal and anomalous topics. Besides its main collection there are also 3 other Library Collections on-site including the thousands of books that make up the Austin Jung Society's collection, and the hundreds of Austin Mufon books and magazines and the many consciousness books of our hosts, INACS (Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Studies). On a scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being "No Interest" and 10 being "Extreme Interest" please rate your interest levels for the following types of anomalous topics which can be found within the Anomaly Archives.

(Rate each option on a scale of 1-10, where 10 is best)

Anomalistics - General Fortean Phenomena (after Charles Fort) like Falls of Fish & Weird Phenomena (61%) Paranormal - Apparitions, Ghosts, Hauntings, Poltergeists (69%) Consciousness - Mind, Memory, Memes, Dreams, Out of Body Experiences, Astral Travel (78%) Ufology - UFOs, Alien Abductions, Close Encounters, CryptoTerrestrials and much much more (78%) Parapsychology - ESP, Psi, Clarvoyance, Remote Viewing, Psychic, Precognition, DMILS (74%) Mysteries - Crop Circles, Cattle Mutilations, Mystery Hums, and more (64%) CryptoZoology - Bigfoot, Mothman, Lake Monsters, Ivory Billed Woodpecker, Out of Place Animals (62%) Other - Have an interest in other topics not listed here? (68%)
With each month's meetings we hope to bring a wide array of news and information to you. Since this is the first meeting of 2012, we'd like to take a look back at the previous year and talk about what you think were the most interesting or important anomaly news stories for 2011. Think about the past 12 months - what do you think were the most important news stories of the year?

Top Three Anomaly News Headlines (For January and for all of 2011)
At future monthly meetings we plan on hosting special videos, lectures, topical focus groups, book discussions and more. There are many different activities we can plan for future monthly meetings. Some of those activities include:

Featured videos Featured talks by anomaly experts Special topical discussions News roundups of headlines Investigation / research training exercises Book discussion groups Board member book recommendations Board member news / research article recommendations So please make plans to attend this Saturday's first Monthly Anomaly Archives Meeting at the SAI - Anomaly Archives / INACS "Mind Quarters" ... we look forward to meeting and talking with all of you!

SMiles Lewis
Founder & President
www.AnomalyArchives.org (http://www.anomalyarchives.org/)

DIRECTIONS to The Anomaly Archives

It's a little tricky to find the first time, so here are the directions:

If you're heading northwest on Research/183 from I-35, Mopac or 360, exit 183 at the Oak Knoll exit, pass through the light at Oak Knoll, and stay on the access road heading north. The next side street off the 183 access road will be Technology Blvd; do not turn on Technology. Immediately after you pass Technology, there will be a driveway on your right (the only one in that area) -- Exit into that driveway. There will be a sign overhead for "Forest Plaza." After you pull in, you'll have no choice but to go to the left into Forest Plaza. Our building is the back left building within the complex -- Suite 302. If you're heading south on Research/183, you also exit at Oak Knoll, but take the u-turn just before you get to Oak Knoll, get over the right on the northbound access road, and prepare to make the right immediately after Technology Blvd. as in the directions above.

Anomaly Archives On-Line

www.AnomalyArchives.org (http://www.anomalyarchives.org/)
www.Twitter.com/AnomalyArchives (http://www.twitter.com/AnomalyArchives)
www.MeetUp.com/AnomalyArchives (https://www.meetup.com/AnomalyArchives)
www.MySpace.com/AnomalyArchives (http://www.myspace.com/AnomalyArchives)
www.LibraryThing.com/catalog/AnomalyArchive (http://www.librarything.com/catalog/AnomalyArchive)
http://www.FaceBook.com/pages/Anomaly-Archives/17710117086

• = We are indebted to INACS (Institute for Neuroscience And Consciousness Study) for allowing the Anomaly Archives lending library to reside within their office space. Each month they hold public meetings of their Board of Directors, and their Education & Research Committees. Therefore, there may be occasional months where we must shift / reschedule our monthly meetings to accomodate their priority use of the space.