http://pad.constantvzw.org/p/letsbuildalibrarytogether.notes

Monday
10:00 Intro
Let's build a library together. Who are we, who are you. A collective process, that goes 'public' on Friday. What do we mean, public? And why this project at IZK (building a curriculum)?
11:00 Collective reading I: Shannon Mattern https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure/
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Continue Collective reading I: Shannon Mattern https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure/
15:00 Mapping annotating

Use the full space/environment of the IZK library to: let's go outside, come in ... it is the opening and ...,

• what tells us this is a library?
• what tells us it is not a library?
• what can we see of usership/research/patronship?
• where can we see practices of librarianship?
• what values?
• what is here that reminds of of infrastructural design/architectural knowledge?
• what furniture, infrastructure, materials?
• what is here that talks about knowledge production, or makes it (im)possible?
• where is access/publicness (or lack thereof?)
• how is it different from other spaces?
• where is the catalog? How is it visible/tangible in the space, or not?
• who does/could this library service?
• what epistemic framing?
• how can it expand? shrink?
• what can we shelter from in this library, what shelter does it provide and what not?
• front or back-of-house?
• ..... your questions ....

Use any means necessary to annotate this space. No post-its allowed! 
16:45 Discussion
18:00 End

Tuesday

Module 1: Workflows

10:00

Public library is:

• free access to books for every member of society
• library catalogue
• librarian

in small groups:
1. A tour of Shadowlibrary practices, de-drm (Marcell)
2. Librarian/Custodian/Researcher. Calibre, cataloguing, librarianship. Monoskop https://monoskop.org/Kittler/Index https://monoskop.org/Architecture https://feminism.memoryoftheworld.org (Femke)
3. Scanning + Post-production. KOK (Tom)

11:00 Shadowlibrary practices or Librarianship or Digitisation
12:00 Shadowlibrary practices or Librarianship or Digitisation

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Shadowlibrary practices or Librarianship or Digitisation

15:00 Discussion, ideas, imagination, proposals: 

• what
• where 
• with/for whom
• how
• when 

... is the Public Library?

18:00 End

Wednesday
10:00 Bring an object (digital, physical) to the space that can stay there until Friday. Move furniture. What library to build together?
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Identifying issues that need to be developed, researched. Divisions of work, group tutorials -- Let's build a library together!
18:00 End

Thursday
10:00 Module 2 + 3
Politics/tactics = collective Reading II
Abstractions in action (some kind of exercise with printing/scanning/working with many books ...? csvkit?)
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Development, discussion: Let's build a library together!
18:00 End

Friday
10:00 Development -- Let's build a library together!
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Presentation prototype: The library is Open
17:00 End

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Reading list proposal:
- Shannon Mattern: Library as Infrastructure (https://placesjournal.org/article/library-as-infrastructure/) (maybe this for further discussion: https://hyp.is/wP9rlDTqEeeuMNeZmxsXSg/www.memoryoftheworld.org/blog/2014/10/27/public-library-an-essay/)
- Amateur Librarian: A Course in Critical Pedagogy (http://www.mondotheque.be/wiki/index.php/Amateur_Librarian_-_Ai _Course_in_Critical_Pedagogy )
- https:/custodians.online https://custodians.online/ubu
- Lawrence Liang: The figure of the pirate. Or: Shadow libraries http://www.e-flux.com/journal/37/61228/shadow-libraries/
- Aaron Swartz: Guerilla Open Access Manifesto