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= TASKS OF THE CONTINGENT LIBRARIAN = | |||
== 1. ACQUIRING TEXTS == | |||
* why do we need texts? what is their function? | |||
* technology of language and its evolution through orality > literacy | |||
* preservation of memory - language inscribed in code | |||
* social - the recollection of this memory forms narratives that constitutes subjectivity | |||
* ways of reading: browsing vs searching, skimming vs scanning | |||
* access to texts (or lack thereof) - where do they come from? | |||
* copyright law and authorship - Eva Weinmayr’s [https://books.openedition.org/obp/8338 essay] | |||
* technical methods of digitising printed texts | |||
* scanning, processing text | |||
* personal experience of using libraries? | |||
== 2. CLASSIFYING AND CATALOGUING THEM == | |||
* aspects of classification | |||
* social, linguistic, semiotic, political | |||
* collections of texts | |||
* professional, amateur, critical librarianship practices and how they relate to these aspects | |||
* what connects the books and the readers | |||
* how does locality relate to the collection? | |||
* proximity | |||
* in the infrastructure of the library (the catalogue, the shelves, the folders, the interface) | |||
== 3. MAKING TEXTS ACCESSIBLE == | |||
* conversion between formats for diverse reading needs | |||
* knowledge distribution methods and networks (distinction between digital and analog methods is blurry as they are often combined) | |||
* social | |||
* distribution of objects arranged through a [https://displaydistribute.com/ social network:] | |||
* governmental | |||
* copyright law and its restrictions on distribution of knowledge | |||
* municipal | |||
* public libraries, social initatives (e.g. Leeszaal) | |||
* pirate | |||
* bootlegging, samizdat, warez, zine culture, unofficial/uncatalogued publications | |||
* locality | |||
* making it public vs making it private - the survival of the library | |||
* pirate vs commercial models - what’s at stake? | |||
== 4. CREATING A SYMBOLIC LINK BETWEEN TEXTS AND READERS == | |||
* Why? | |||
* the sociability of libraries | |||
* bootlegging and unofficial publishing practices | |||
* the symbolic (Lacan’s example of a door and its uses outside of binary open/closed) |
Revision as of 18:41, 26 October 2019
TASKS OF THE CONTINGENT LIBRARIAN
1. ACQUIRING TEXTS
- why do we need texts? what is their function?
* technology of language and its evolution through orality > literacy * preservation of memory - language inscribed in code * social - the recollection of this memory forms narratives that constitutes subjectivity
- ways of reading: browsing vs searching, skimming vs scanning
- access to texts (or lack thereof) - where do they come from?
- copyright law and authorship - Eva Weinmayr’s essay
- technical methods of digitising printed texts
* scanning, processing text
- personal experience of using libraries?
2. CLASSIFYING AND CATALOGUING THEM
- aspects of classification
* social, linguistic, semiotic, political * collections of texts * professional, amateur, critical librarianship practices and how they relate to these aspects
- what connects the books and the readers
- how does locality relate to the collection?
- proximity
* in the infrastructure of the library (the catalogue, the shelves, the folders, the interface)
3. MAKING TEXTS ACCESSIBLE
- conversion between formats for diverse reading needs
- knowledge distribution methods and networks (distinction between digital and analog methods is blurry as they are often combined)
* social * distribution of objects arranged through a social network: * governmental * copyright law and its restrictions on distribution of knowledge * municipal * public libraries, social initatives (e.g. Leeszaal) * pirate * bootlegging, samizdat, warez, zine culture, unofficial/uncatalogued publications
- locality
- making it public vs making it private - the survival of the library
- pirate vs commercial models - what’s at stake?
4. CREATING A SYMBOLIC LINK BETWEEN TEXTS AND READERS
- Why?
- the sociability of libraries
- bootlegging and unofficial publishing practices
- the symbolic (Lacan’s example of a door and its uses outside of binary open/closed)