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01 Kick-off: Tasks of the Contingent Librarian
Pad: Introduction to the Special Issue with Simon
In this Special Issue, How Do We Library That?, we will start by considering the word "library" as a verb; actions that sustains the production, collection and distribution of texts. We will question indexical attitudes that lean towards universalisms and search for proposals for how we "library" our particular collection.
This first session was about listening to Simon, to each other, and to ourselves. Simon shared with us the cards from Tasks of the Contingent Librarian. We took notes collectively on the pad on what has been said by each one of us or in pars. I think we all enjoyed the process and the chance to work together because we decided to do the assignment (make cards for the bootleg library) as a team. We made 6 cards in total. Have a look at the Pad below.
02 Print Screen
Pad: Print & Publication Station & XML
It was interesting to have a look at the bootleg library and XML (experimental media lab). Simon gave us a task to select a text from the books in them and then to reflect on what's been read. I decided to work with one super cool book, Resonant bodies, voices, memories. I recorded 6 minutes of audio of me talking about the book. Then we used the files to make a transcription in vosk. It was fun to see if and how the software will (or will not) capture words, sounds, and pronunciations. My text file was super messy and nothing made sense.
- About VOSK
- Vosk - all our transcriptions after we edited them to make them legible for the reader.
- Zettlekasten - (zettle = (paper) slip / kasten = box)
- 100 unique copies of The Beatles’ White Album
- CoolGuy - cool website of a cool guy
- Baby by Justin Bieber But 800% Slower
03 Text, TBC
Pad: Dimensions of text - editorial, technical, social
We went to the Research station and we met W., the librarian/gardener.
04 Scribes Getting Personal ☞
Pad: Different ways to indicate/index/point to things
Web-to-Print We had a full-day workshop on web-to-print at the Varia library (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam). Output: make more cards and work with the space at vvvvvaria.
- Pandoc - web to print
- Assignment - Devise a proof of concept for your "HTML gardening". Next week we meet again at Varia to materialise the outcomes.
05 Gardening the Library
Pad: Week Five: Gardening the Library
Before going to varia, I went to a nearby coffee and found a nice book. Sequential Drawings: THE NEW YORKER SERIES By Richard McGuire
06 Paper Machines
We started the day with a review of the reading materials Simon suggested before the break and we also watched those two videos. Here are his notes on Vannevar Bush 'As We May Think'. Suzan found this website about the 'Classified Index of Card Games' and saw these Flower Cards.
Discussed also these:
- A book ENTIRELY WOVEN IN SILK
- The Jacquard Loom: A Study in Book Production
- Apple Macintosh - Your Tour of HyperCard (1991) Apple Computer
- Biblio-Graph
- [https://www.jeanneworks.net/ Jeanne van Heeswijk} - is an artist who facilitates the creation of dynamic and diversified public spaces in order to “radicalize the local”. Her long-scale community-embedded projects question art’s autonomy by combining performative actions, discussions, and other forms of organizing and pedagogy in order to assist communities to take control of their own futures. This webpage is an artwork that illustrates the relationships among the participants in Jeanne van Heeswijk's art projects since 1993
- Oblique Strategies
- Instant Warnet
- Flask - web builder from templates
- A Year with Swollen Appendices
As a result of today's class we developed the first version of the rules. We made them as we were playing.
07 Six: A Textile, A Framework
How do we library that?
When we ask "HOW" we want to know more about methods, systems, ways to do something. This question is about the process (or steps) that can lead us to achieving a certain output. So the answer of this SI's question might be hidden in the process of gardening. Seeing "library" and "garden" as intertwined actions, and gardening as the way we can library something, to answer the HOW question.
- In "How do we library that?" we already have our WHAT and WHY.
What = a library
Why = having a library
Social Practice Library | Questions:
Imagine this, you want to begin developing something (a library) or you are a beginner in doing something (librarying), so you might probably feel overwhelmed, your mind is flooded with so many questions and don't know where to start. There is so much to be done, and you are not sure where to start no order, no steps, no
- What this library is about?
- What do you want to create?
- Why does gardening matter to you?
- What elements are part of your dream garden?
- What elements are not part of your dream garden?
- What is the first books, magazines, or publications that immediately comes to mind when you think of library produce?
- Are you going to have help from library members and other people?
- Think about your specific growing and garden zone. Do you have a long growing season or a short one?
- Do you want "crops" you can store for some months?
- Do you like caring for people (readers, volunteers, team members)?
- Do you have a container garden with seeds?
- Beginner set up recommendations for seeds?
- How do you know what to put together? Do you organize by author, genre, cover color?
- Conditions - sunlight, soil, moisture?
- What do we like to read?
- Is it accessible?