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      I N S T I T U T E

Bookserver in a book

What is Bibliotecha?

Bibliotecha - An offline digital community library

Bibliotecha is a framework to facilitate the local distribution of digital publications within a small community. It relies on a microcomputer running open-source software to serve books over a local wifi hotspot. Using the browser to connect to the library one can retrieve or donate texts. Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution of digital texts that allows specific communities to form and share their own collections.

Contributors

Yoana Buzova

Andre Castro

Lasse van den Bosch Christensen

Max Dovey

Michaela Lakova

Roel Roscam Abbing

Installation

User manual

Librarian manual

Source Code

Links

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 ====Bibliotecha - An offline digital community library====
+Bibliotecha is a framework to facilitate the local distribution of digital publications within a small community. It relies on a microcomputer running open-source software to serve books over a local wifi hotspot. Using the browser to connect to the library one can retrieve or donate texts. Bibliotecha proposes an alternative model of distribution of digital texts that allows specific communities to form and share their own collections.
-Bibliotecha is a software stack that allows a small community to maintain and distribute a collection of texts. It is based on the idea that a community might have a 'canonical' collection of texts that need to be easily accessed by the members.
-It uses a Raspberry Pi to serve books over a local wifi hotspot. Once connected to the hotspot any webbrowser can be used to search the collection and retrieve books from it. Members of the community can also add books to the collection using their webbrowser.
-The collection is maintained by one or more librarians to ensure the right order of the collection.
 ==== Contributors ====
 [[User:Yoana_Buzova | Yoana Buzova]]
-[[User:Andre_Castro | Andre Castro]]
+[http://www.andrecastro.info/a/ Andre Castro]
 [[User:Lassebosch | Lasse van den Bosch Christensen]]