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<div id="content"><h1 id="garden-leeszaal-special-issue-xix">Garden Leeszaal: Special
Issue XIX</h1>
<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>
<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, grab books, tear pages apart, drawing, pen plotting,
weaving words together, cutting words, removing words, overwriting,
printing, scanning. It was magical having an object in the end. A whole
book made by all of us in that evening. Stations, machines, a cloud of
cards, a sleeve that warms up THE BOOK.</p>
<p><img src="imagename.png"
alt="Bobis station - Name of the Station and Description" /> <img
src="imagename.png"
alt="Irmaks and Aglaias station - Name of the Station and Description" />
<img src="imagename.png"
alt="Stephens station name- Name of the Station and Description" />
<img src="imagename.png"
alt="Adas Station - Name of the Station and Description" /> <img
src="imagename.png"
alt="Caras station name- Name of the Station and Description" /> <img
src="imagename.png" alt="Book recycle bins description" /> <img
src="imagename.png"
alt="Cloud of gards with instructions to be performed into the books" />
<img src="imagename.png" alt="inside page of the final book" /> <img
src="imagename.png" alt="Photo of the book - cover and sleeve" /></p>
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