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<div id="content"><h1 id="garden-leeszaal-special-issue-xix">Garden Leeszaal: Special
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Issue XIX</h1>
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<p>Public libraries are more than just access points to knowledge. They
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are social sites where readers cross over while reading together,
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annotating, organising and structuring. A book could be bound at the
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spine, or an electronic file gathered together with digital binding. A
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library could be an accumulated stack of printed books, a modular
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collection of software packages, a method of distributing e-books, a
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writing machine.</p>
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<p>In the Special Issue 19, How do we library that? or alternatively
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Garden Leeszaal, we started re-considering the word “library” as a verb;
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actions that sustains the production, collection and distribution of
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texts. A dive into the understanding structure of libraries as systems
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of producing knowledge and unpacking classification as a process that
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(un)names, distinguishes, excludes, displaces, organizes life. From the
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library to the section to the shelf to the book to the page to the text.
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The zooming in and zooming out process. The library as a plain text.</p>
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<p>Like community gardens, libraries are about tenderness and
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approachability. However, does every book and each person feel welcome
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in these spaces? Publications are empty leaves if there is no one to
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read them. Libraries are soulless storage rooms if there is no one to
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visit them. People give meaning to libraries and publications alike.
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People are the reason for their existence. People tend to cultivate
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plants. Audiences tend to foster content. The public tends to enrich the
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context. Libraries as complex social infrastructures.</p>
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<p>The release of the Special Issue 19 was a momentary snapshot of the
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current state of a library seen through the metaphor of gardening;
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pruning, gleaning, growing, grafting and harvesting. Garden Leeszaal is
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an open conversation; a collective writing tool, a cooperative collage
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and an archive. We asked everyone to think of the library as a garden.
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For us, being a gardener means caring; caring for the people and books
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that form this space.</p>
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<p>During the collective moment in Leeszaal people started diving into
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recycle bins, grab books, tear pages apart, drawing, pen plotting,
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weaving words together, cutting words, removing words, overwriting,
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printing, scanning. It was magical having an object in the end. A whole
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book made by all of us in that evening. Stations, machines, a cloud of
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cards, a sleeve that warms up THE BOOK.</p>
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<p><img src="imagename.png"
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alt="Bobi’s station - Name of the Station and Description" /> <img
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src="imagename.png"
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alt="Irmak’s and Aglaia’s station - Name of the Station and Description" />
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<img src="imagename.png"
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alt="Stephen’s station name- Name of the Station and Description" />
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<img src="imagename.png"
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alt="Ada’s Station - Name of the Station and Description" /> <img
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src="imagename.png"
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alt="Cara’s station name- Name of the Station and Description" /> <img
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src="imagename.png" alt="Book recycle bins description" /> <img
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src="imagename.png"
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alt="Cloud of gards with instructions to be performed into the books" />
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<img src="imagename.png" alt="inside page of the final book" /> <img
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src="imagename.png" alt="Photo of the book - cover and sleeve" /></p>
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