• Library Underground – a reading list for a coming community

    Author(s):
    Eva Weinmayr (see profile)
    Date:
    2016
    Group(s):
    Cultural Studies, Digital Humanists, Diversity in the Arts, Library & Information Science, Social History of Archives
    Subject(s):
    Public libraries, Library science, Information organization, Learning and scholarship, Open access publishing
    Item Type:
    Book chapter
    Tag(s):
    feminist epistemologies, feminist methodology, knowledge dissemination, Librarianship, Piracy, Knowledge organization, Open scholarship
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/nwyp-1b72
    Abstract:
    "In capitalism, institutional libraries, publishers and book traders all have ways to suppress the publishing of, the access to or the distribution of texts and books — rigidities inviting for creative subversion." This chapter written in the form of a dialogue presents an informal conversation between Eva Weinmayr and her inner voice about artistic and critical practices of radical librarianship and underground dissemination. It touches on a set of examples from informal distribution strategies of the Whole Earth catalogue, to the radical librarian movement in California in the 70s (Celeste West, Sanford Berman) as well as a range of contemporary activist librarian practices (aaaaarg.org, memoryofthe world and the Piracy Project). Common concerns about the function and value of public libraries and access to knowledge “for every member of the community” (ALA, Library Bill of Rights 1939) seem to crop up throughout the conversation: Who is a library for?; What kind of materials and topics are missing and the implicit biases in the organisation and classification of knowledge?
    Notes:
    What does it mean to publish today? In the face of a changing media landscape, institutional upheavals, and discursive shifts in the legal, artistic, and political fields, concepts of ownership, authorship, work, accessibility, and publicity are being renegotiated. How the traditional publishing framework has been cast adrift, and which opportunities are surfacing in its stead, is discussed here by artists, publishers, and scholars through the examination of recent publishing concepts...
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    Publisher:
    Sternberg Press
    Pub. Date:
    March 2016
    Book Title:
    Publishing as Artistic Practice
    Author/Editor:
    Annette Gilbert
    Chapter:
    Library Underground – a reading list for a coming community
    Page Range:
    156 - 187
    ISBN:
    ISBN 978-3-95679-177-2
    Status:
    Published
    Last Updated:
    4 years ago
    License:
    Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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