- *A note to the reader:
- Tasks of the Contingent Librarian
- acquiring/removing
- finding texts
- uploading
- downloading
- bootlegging
- being kind to the reader
- diversifying through use
- multiplying form
- republishing
- cleaning up text
- editing
- repaginating
- reprinting
- rereferencing
- rebinding
- digitising/printing
- producing texts
- annotating
- glossing
- understanding texts
- including/excluding
- administrating
- indexing
- making it public/keeping it private
- inviting
- making public
- keeping private
- trusting
- networking
- meeting in small rooms, in small groups
- consulting
- open-sourcing
- inter-depending
- proprietorising
- professionalising
- amateuring
- reading/writing
- reading
- skimming/scanning
- human reading
- skimming
- machine reading
- scanning
- writing
- technologising the word
- typing
- machine writing
- searching/browsing