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Online, Wednesday 13th October, 16:00-19:00 CEST | Online, Wednesday 13th October, 16:00-19:00 CEST |
Revision as of 11:25, 1 October 2021
Welcome to the Parallel Library Services wiki. Here (and in the sidebar to the left) you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, practices, tools and resources.
External resources:
- Etherpad browser-based collaborative writing software
- parallel-library a shared digital library running on a VPS (requires user registration)
Background
Parallel Library Services is a workshop series that documents the many actions and situations that libraries and amateur librarians facilitate.
It sees libraries as not just places to keep books and files, but as sites where important social practices are performed: annotating, community-building, reading together, supporting, organising, structuring and many more.
It aims to collect and document these actions hands-on; sharing discussions, perspectives, tools and techniques while experimenting with free software to create one, or many libraries in parallel.
How can libraries offer each other support while maintaining necessary difference? What knowledge and know-how can assist and what are the tasks of librarians to come?
Programme
The programme of 12 workshops will be held (mostly) every two weeks between October 2021 and March 2022. Each workshop will be approximately 2-3 hours. During these we will:
- engage in critical discourse on library practices and knowledge distribution
- collectively gain knowledge and know-how in the setup and maintenance of digital libraries
- support each other in experiments with free software tools to organise, classify, distribute and annotate digital collections
- collect and document techniques, tools, workflows and discussions
- connect and strengthen a network of amateur digital librarians
Schedule
October 2021
1: First meeting, introductions and infrastructour
Online, Wednesday 13th October, 16:00-19:00 CEST
Requirements: A computer with an internet connection
Links
Jitsi: * link TBC
Pad: * link TBC
2
Introducing digital library types and setup, classifying and cataloguing texts
Where: at Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online (link TBC)
When: Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST
Guest speaker: Luke Murphy (Bibliotecha)
Pad for the day:
- link TBC
November 2021
Organising library structure, experiments with document conversion
December, 2021
Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing
January, 2022
Annotation tools and strategies
Documentation
February, 2022
Collaborative writing and self-publishing workflows
Documentation
March, 2022
Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief
Publication launch at Varia