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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.

• Bootleg library
• Pad to our Cards in bags

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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

My Notes

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

Pad: 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:

• The Jacquard Loom: A Study in Book Production
• Apple Macintosh - Your Tour of HyperCard (1991) Apple Computer
• Biblio-Graph
• Oblique Strategies
• Instant Warnet
• Flask - web builder from templates
• A Year with Swollen Appendices