Dear readers,
- The Library Is Open invites you to an afternoon of workshops that make the operations within libraries visible. Join us in exploring the actions and roles of legal and extra-legal libraries (municipal, pirate, academic, +++), their custodians, and the public that form a community around collections of texts.
Marginal Conversation
We read texts, and write notes in the margins; usually in private, isolated from other readers. We come across texts with others' notes on them; the author unknown, their thoughts obscure. What happens when we share our notes, vocalise and perform them?
Blurry boundaries
Select, annotate, analyze, scan, correct, digitize, print, read, transfer, erase, encode, curate, hack, interface, work, copy...
How do we reveal the hidden labour involved in these processes? What libraries become possible when you transform physical books into digital files, and vice versa?
In this workshop you will be a librarian converting books into machine readable files, a process involving tools, time and choices.
+In this workshop you will be a librarian converting books into machine readable files, a process involving tools, time and choices.
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Contributors:
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Contributors:
Simon Browne, Tancredi Di Giovanni, Paloma García, Rita Graça, Artemis Gryllaki, Pedro Sá Couto, Femke Snelting, Biyi Wen, Bohye Woo
Special thanks to:
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Special thanks to:
Bodó Balázs, Dušan Barok, Anita Burato, André Castro, Aymeric Mansoux, Michael Murtaugh, Martino Morandi, Leslie Robbins, Steve Rushton, Amy Suo Wu, Eva Weinmayr