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The Nashville Palm Users Group enjoyed over 5 years of meetings at First Data Systems, but alas all good things must come to an end. So we’ve been on the hunt to find a new home and we think we’ve narrowed it down to a few choice locations. From all of our investigations, it would appear that the Nashville Public Library system offers the best locations in which to meet. Now it’s up to you!
On the right side of our home page you should see a section called “Monthly Poll” Please place your vote on which library location you would prefer to meet. Based on this poll, we will make that location our new “home” if you will. To help you make your decision, listed below are details regarding the library system as a whole and the specifics of your location choices.
Why The Library?
One of the things that we’ve always wanted to do, is to be able to branch out and move the meeting to a new location for one month. Our hope is that we could make it easier for some people to attend for a given month and shake things up a bit. That’s a daunting logistical task, but with the Nashville Library system, it’s much easier. In 2006, we plan to have two “On The Road” meetings. One in Franklin and one in Madison, or Goodlettsville.
In addition, the locations we’ve chosen all have high speed wireless Internet access (WiFi), will allow us to bring in coffee and doughnuts, and have enough space capable of housing our group. For a map of all the Nashville & Davidson County libraries, please select this link.
Green Hills Branch Library
Green Hills is one of the nicest branch libraries having recently undergone a renovation a few years ago. This branch has a 100 seat meeting space, so there’s plenty of room for our group and they seem quite accommodating. Green Hills is also somewhat central to Greater Nashville, although it is not immediately next to a major Interstate. It should be noted that the Green Hills library has plenty of parking.
Edmondson Pike Branch Library
Should the membership choose the Edmondson Pike Branch, we would be returning to our roots, since our first meetings were held in the “Nipper’s Corner” area. This location is a bit far south, but is easily accessible from either I-24, or I-65. Edmondson Pike Branch is a new library and has only been open for a few years. They offer two large meeting rooms and plenty of parking.
Nashville Public Library (Main) - Downtown
The Nashville Public Library (Main) is definitely one of the preeminent libraries in Nashville, if not in the Nation. It is centrally located downtown and there is a large parking garage, so there is plenty of parking, however it is not free.
Parking Pricing
According to Beth Brown, at the Downtown Nashville Public Library, the cost for parking is as follows: Meters are free ALL DAY Sat. and Sun. As for parking in the garage, the first hour is free, the 2nd hour is $1.50 and it’s $1 per half-hour after that.
Given that our meetings are two hours in length and tend to run over, you can expect to pay roughly $3.50 per meeting for parking, unless you can find a meter where you can park for free. Granted, that isn’t a lot of money, but parking downtown may be a bit of a hurdle - a hurdle that you don’t have to overcome at the branch locations.
But What If I Don’t Like ANY Of The Locations?
Well, that’s what the last item “I Want A Recount!” is for. Simply make that your choice and then please put in your suggestion as a reply to this post. Your suggestions do not have to be limited to library locations, so if you know of a place where you think we could meet that is better than what we’ve come up with, make your voice heard. 
We’re going to leave the post running for most of the month, but we plan to have a location nailed down by the end of the week. So the sooner you can vote the better.
December 13, 2005 @ 01:38 AM | Comments (3) | TrackBack (0)
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1. Steve said...
Re. parking downtown, Saturday (all day) is Free on the street. I double checked with Beth Brown (862-5800) of the downtown branch.
Posted: December 13, 2005 11:57 AM
2. Scott said...
Where would the Franklin site be? I did not see that listed as a vote option.
THANKS!
Posted: December 14, 2005 12:03 PM
3. mashby said...
Scott,
Franklin won’t be the “home base” for the monthly NPUG meetings. We do plan on meeting at the Franklin Public Library in 2006, but it will just be for one meeting that year.
Basically, we plan on taking the NPUG meetings “On-The-Road” twice a year so that we can reach out to locations around Greater Nashville and hopefully reach people that haven’t attended one of our monthly meetings.
So Franklin isn’t in the poll because it’s not where we’re going to meet for the bulk of the year. Does that make sense?