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Libraries give access to knowledge, but are much more than places to keep files and books. Rather than looking only at what a library ''stores'', we will also discover what it ''produces''. In | Libraries give access to knowledge, but are much more than places to keep files and books. | ||
== Special Issue 19 == | |||
Rather than looking only at what a library ''stores'', we will also discover what it ''produces''. We will consider collections as not only comprised of things, but also people and actions. | |||
In other words, we will attempt to collectively and individually answer the question "How do we library that?", approaching a particular, situated library-in-the-making as a set of collective actions that sustain it by; | |||
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Revision as of 13:54, 5 September 2022
Background
Libraries give access to knowledge, but are much more than places to keep files and books.
Special Issue 19
Rather than looking only at what a library stores, we will also discover what it produces. We will consider collections as not only comprised of things, but also people and actions.
In other words, we will attempt to collectively and individually answer the question "How do we library that?", approaching a particular, situated library-in-the-making as a set of collective actions that sustain it by;