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< h1 id = "garden-leeszaal" > Garden Leeszaal< / h1 >
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< h3 id = "special-issue-xix" > Special Issue XIX< / h3 >
< p > Public libraries are more than just access points to knowledge. They
are social sites where readers cross over while reading together,
annotating, organising and structuring. A book could be bound at the
spine, or an electronic file gathered together with digital binding. A
library could be an accumulated stack of printed books, a modular
collection of software packages, a method of distributing e-books, a
writing machine.< / p >
< p > In the Special Issue 19, How do we library that? or alternatively
Garden Leeszaal, we started re-considering the word “library” as a verb;
actions that sustains the production, collection and distribution of
texts. A dive into the understanding structure of libraries as systems
of producing knowledge and unpacking classification as a process that
(un)names, distinguishes, excludes, displaces, organizes life. From the
library to the section to the shelf to the book to the page to the text.
The zooming in and zooming out process. The library as a plain text.< / p >
< p > Like community gardens, libraries are about tenderness and
approachability. However, does every book and each person feel welcome
in these spaces? Publications are empty leaves if there is no one to
read them. Libraries are soulless storage rooms if there is no one to
visit them. People give meaning to libraries and publications alike.
People are the reason for their existence. People tend to cultivate
plants. Audiences tend to foster content. The public tends to enrich the
context. Libraries as complex social infrastructures.< / p >
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< img src = "card-cloud-leeszaal.jpg" class = "half-image"
alt="Cloud of cards with instructions to be performed on the books" />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Cloud of cards with instructions to be
performed on the books< / figcaption >
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< p > The release of the Special Issue 19 was a momentary snapshot of the
current state of a library seen through the metaphor of gardening;
pruning, gleaning, growing, grafting and harvesting. Garden Leeszaal is
an open conversation; a collective writing tool, a cooperative collage
and an archive. We asked everyone to think of the library as a garden.
For us, being a gardener means caring; caring for the people and books
that form this space.< / p >
< p > During the collective moment in Leeszaal people started diving into
recycle bins, grabbing books, tearing pages apart, drawing, pen
plotting, weaving words together, cutting words, removing words,
overwriting, printing, and scanning. It was magical having an object in
the end. A whole book was made by all of us that evening. Stations,
machines, a cloud of cards, a sleeve that warms up THE BOOK.< / p >
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< img src = "open-bin.jpg" class = "full-image"
alt="Bin of discarded books from Leeszal." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Bin of discarded books from
Leeszal.< / figcaption >
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alt="People choosing books from the discarded books bins, behind the instructions cards cloud." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > People choosing books from the discarded
books bins, behind the instructions cards cloud.< / figcaption >
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< p > < img src = "mint-scan.jpg" class = "image-95"
alt="Page of the final book containing scans of the edited book, an instruction card, a pen-plotted bookmark with a quote from the book and a sprig of mint." />
< img src = "drawn-scan.jpg" class = "image-95"
alt="Page of the final book containing scans of a drawn on book, an instruction card and a pen-plotted bookmark with a quote from the book." />< / p >
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alt="Irmak’ ’
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Irmak’ ’
where people edited punctuation and text, scanned it then printed it
with a dot matrix.< / figcaption >
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< p > < img src = "hand-scan.jpg" class = "image-95"
alt="Page of the final book containing scans of edited books, a hand and coins." />
< img src = "editing.jpg" class = "image-95"
alt="Part of the Pruning process, the editing of a book page." />< / p >
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< img src = "second-edition-open.jpg"
alt="Page of the second edition, containing scans of edited books and instruction cards." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > Page of the second edition, containing
scans of edited books and instruction cards.< / figcaption >
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< img src = "binding.jpg" class = "image-95"
alt="The binding of the scans into the final book at the end of the evening." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > The binding of the scans into the final
book at the end of the evening.< / figcaption >
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< img src = "final-book.jpg" class = "image-95"
alt="The final book produced that evening, the cover was made from hand-stiched covers of discarded books." />
< figcaption aria-hidden = "true" > The final book produced that evening, the
cover was made from hand-stiched covers of discarded books.< / figcaption >
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