User:Simon/Radiated bootleg library

library of contingencies

Making the activities of the bootleg library public via an online collection called "Library of Contingencies" (LoC). The LoC is a digital version of the text Tasks of the Contingent Librarian (TotCL), including concrete examples of my activity as the contingent librarian in maintaining the bootleg library. TotCL will be published as printed cards in the autumn of 2020. The interface of the printed A6 card determines a particular type of reading and assembly of the text (writing).

LoC will be an activated digital documentation of the practice which utilises not the layout, but the function of the cards:

• combinatorial
• associative over hierarchical
• concise
• convivial
• supportive

A plan of the tasks and associated snippets

Concrete things I've done in relation to the reflective tasks:

• bootleg library (main category)
  • tasks of the contingent librarian (subcategory)
    • *A note to the reader:
    • Tasks of the Contingent Librarian
    • acquiring/removing
      • User:Simon/Trim4/tools#shadow/pirate/extra-legal_libraries
    • finding texts
      • searching for books with manetta, https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Bootleg_Library_at_Meeting_Grounds
    • uploading
      • emails written to library members about choosing usernames etc
    • downloading
      • extracting text from web with curl: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Trim4/Extracting_text_from_the_web
    • being kind to the reader
      • booklet.sh script: https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Trim4/PDF_imposition
    • diversifying through use
      • http://simonbrowne.biz/projects/from-the-books-slv-rbrr-000-099/
    • multiplying form
      • F/LOSS graphics pad shared with Manetta: https://pad.vvvvvvaria.org/floss-graphics
    • republishing
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Trim4/fieldwork#20.11.19_-_Yin_Yin_Wong,_at_Publication_Studio_Rotterdam
    • cleaning up text
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Trim4/Extracting_text_from_PDF
    • editing
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/File:18_11_21_Pad_difs_01.jpg https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Reading,_Writing_&_Research_Methodologies
    • repaginating
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Rewire_Digital_Cosmopolitans_in_the_Age_of_Connection
    • reprinting
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Information_Ages
    • rereferencing
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/A_Voice_and_Nothing_More
    • rebinding
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Dumbstruck_A_Cultural_History_of_Ventriloquism
    • digitising/printing
      • https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/User:Simon/Feminist_Art_Manifestos
    • producing texts
      • https://pad.xpub.nl/p/Notes_on_texts
    • annotating
    • glossing
      • https://pad.xpub.nl/p/bootleg_library_sessions
    • understanding texts
      • https://pad.xpub.nl/p/text_tbc
    • including/excluding
    • administrating
    • indexing
    • making it public/keeping it private
    • inviting
    • making public
    • keeping private
    • trusting
    • networking
    • meeting in small rooms, in small groups
    • consulting
    • open-sourcing
    • inter-depending
    • proprietorising
    • professionalising
    • amateuring
    • reading/writing
    • reading
    • skimming/scanning
    • human reading
    • skimming
    • machine reading
    • scanning
    • writing
    • technologising the word
    • human writing
    • typing
    • machine writing
    • searching/browsing

Category:Tasks of the Contingent Librarian