si19

specialissue19/index.md

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-title: Colophon
-author: Stephen
+title: Garden Leeszaal
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 # Special Issue 19
 
-### What was the special issue
-Description about si19 goes here
+### Garden Leeszaal 
+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.
 
-![Image Caption](imagename.png)
+In this 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. 
 
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+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. 
 
-![Image Caption 2](imagename2.png)
+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.
 
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+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 the evening. Stations, machines, a cloud of cards, a sleeve that warms up THE BOOK. 
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+![Bobi's station - Name of the Station and Description](imagename.png)
+![Irmak's and Aglaia's station - Name of the Station and Description](imagename.png)
+![Stephen's station name- Name of the Station and Description](imagename.png)
+![Ada's Station - Name of the Station and Description](imagename.png)
+![Cara's station name- Name of the Station and Description](imagename.png)
+![Book recycle bins description](imagename.png)
+![Cloud of gards with instructions to be performed into the books](imagename.png)
+![inside page of the final book](imagename.png)
+![Photo of the book - cover and sleeve](imagename.png)
 
-Another thing that came out of our first two sessions was the *One Sentence Ritual*. Each week for six weeks in a row, we wrote down a ritual of our own and took turns performing the ritual from the list. Coffee fortune-telling, hard drive purifications, collective eating, sound meditations, and talking to worry dolls made us reflect on the content of the week and our lives. 
 
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