Special issue 19
garden leeszaal
was a momentary snapshot of the state of a library seen through the metaphor of gardening; pruning, gleaning, growing, grafting and harvesting. garden leeszaal was an open conversation; a collective writing tool, a cooperative collage and an archive. we asked participants to think of the library as a garden. for us, being a gardener meant caring; caring for the people and books that form this space.
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β one: tasks of the contingent librarian
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dear diary, today we took some notes on notes. i take notes on my phones notes, notion, and my own personal groupchat i have on whatsapp with myself. we talked about libraries as ideology, as a verb. we picked cards from tasks of the contingent librarian that resonated with us. then talked about them, then walked about what we talked about and transcribed what we heard.
me and irmak: a reader who downloads is a passive reader, we related to the idea of multiplying form, people annotating on things also adds to a text. Also the idea of open-sourcing, assuming that knowledge is private property. It's not going to be the same things when you share you notes with me because I'm a different person, it's not that, knowledge is fluid. Skimming/scanning: what's the difference?