- *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
*A note to the reader:
This text has been written with the intention to be materialised in a very specific form; a set of A6-sized index cards, contained in a box. Please read it while holding the cards in your hands, shuffling and reordering them, making your own text as you read.
These cards list the tasks performed on the site of contingencies, the bootleg library. Tasks are described on the obverse, and related images and references are on the reverse.