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<div id="content"><h1 id="garden-leeszaal">Garden Leeszaal</h1>
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<h3 id="special-issue-xix">Special Issue XIX</h3>
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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, grabbing books, tearing pages apart, drawing, pen
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plotting, weaving words together, cutting words, removing words,
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overwriting, printing, and scanning. It was magical having an object in
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the end. A whole book was made by all of us that evening. Stations,
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machines, a cloud of cards, a sleeve that warms up THE BOOK.</p>
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<figure>
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<img src="pruning.jpg"
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alt="Irmak’s and Aglaia’s Pruning station, where people edited punctuation and text, scanned it then printed it with a dot matrix." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Irmak’s and Aglaia’s Pruning station,
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where people edited punctuation and text, scanned it then printed it
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with a dot matrix.</figcaption>
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<img src="card-cloud-leeszaal.jpg"
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alt="Cloud of cards with instructions to be performed on the books" />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Cloud of cards with instructions to be
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performed on the books</figcaption>
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<img src="final-book.jpg"
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alt="The final book produced that evening, the cover was made from hand-stiched covers of discarded books." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The final book produced that evening, the
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cover was made from hand-stiched covers of discarded books.</figcaption>
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<img src="mint-scan.jpg"
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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." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Page of the final book containing scans
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of the edited book, an instruction card, a pen-plotted bookmark with a
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quote from the book and a sprig of mint.</figcaption>
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<img src="drawn-scan.jpg"
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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." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Page of the final book containing scans
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of a drawn on book, an instruction card and a pen-plotted bookmark with
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a quote from the book.</figcaption>
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<img src="hand-scan.jpg"
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alt="Page of the final book containing scans of edited books, a hand and coins." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Page of the final book containing scans
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of edited books, a hand and coins.</figcaption>
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<img src="second-edition-open.jpg"
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alt="Page of the second edition, containing scans of edited books and instruction cards." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Page of the second edition, containing
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scans of edited books and instruction cards.</figcaption>
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<img src="second-edition.jpg"
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alt="The second edition of the final book from the event." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The second edition of the final book from
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the event.</figcaption>
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<img src="people-bins.jpg"
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alt="People choosing books from the discarded books bins, behind the instructions cards cloud." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">People choosing books from the discarded
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books bins, behind the instructions cards cloud.</figcaption>
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<img src="editing.jpg"
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alt="Part of the Pruning process, the editing of a book page." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">Part of the Pruning process, the editing
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of a book page.</figcaption>
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<img src="open-bin.jpg" alt="Bin of discarded books from Leeszal." />
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Leeszal.</figcaption>
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alt="The binding of the scans into the final book at the end of the evening." />
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<figcaption aria-hidden="true">The binding of the scans into the final
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book at the end of the evening.</figcaption>
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