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Welcome to the Parallel Library Services wiki. Here you will find information about the workshop series' background, programme and schedule, as well as ever-growing lists of libraries, organisations, practices and tools (not to mention librarians). This wiki is a shared resource and collaborative read/write publication for the participants of Parallel Library Services.

Participants:

Parallel Library Services is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.

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 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

Workshop 1: First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour

Online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 13th October, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-1
Documentation: First meeting, Introductions, Code of Conduct and Infrastructour

Workshop 2: Introducing digital library types and setup

At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 27th October 2021, 16:00-19:00 CEST
Guest: Luke Murphy (Bibliotecha, Varia)
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-2
Documentation: Introducing digital library types and setup

November 2021

Workshop 3: Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts

At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online: https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 10th November, 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET
Guest: Lozana Rossenova https://lozanarossenova.com/
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-3
Documentation: Organising library structure, classifying and cataloguing texts

Workshop 4: Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion

At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 24th November 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-4
Documentation: Imagining librarianship & experiments with document conversion

December, 2021

Workshop 5: Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing

At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 8th December 2021, 16:00-19:00 CET
Guest: Pedro Sá Couto https://pedrosacouto.com/
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-5
Documentation: Digitising, scanning, processing and republishing

January, 2022

Workshop 6: Annotation tools & strategies - WordMord: No Annotation is Alone

Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 26th January 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET
Guests: Angeliki Diakrousi (http://w-i-t-m.net/) & WordMord: Vassiliea Stylianidou aka Franck-Lee Alli-Tis, Christina Karagianni, Stylianos Benetos aka Oýto Arognos, Mounologies: Eleni Diamantouli and Anna Delimpasi (http://wordmord-ur.la/)
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-6
Documentation: WordMord: No Annotation is Alone

February, 2022

March, 2022

Workshop 10: Co-working-things-out

Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 2nd March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET
Pads: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-10

Workshop 11: Co-working-things-out

Online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 9th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/PLS-co-working-things-out
https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-11

Workshop 12. Experimenting with the database, Documentation and debrief

At Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam), and online at https://meet.greenhost.net/ParallelLibraryServices
Wednesday 30th March 2022, 16:00-19:00 CET
Pad: https://pad.simonbrowne.biz/p/pls-meeting-12

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-__TOC__
-== 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: Introducing digital library types and setup, classifying and cataloguing texts
-* 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
-== Location ==
-The workshops will happen twice monthly, alternating between in-person meetings at [https://vvvvvvaria.org/ Varia], in the south of Rotterdam and online, hosted over web conferencing software. Guests speaker presentations will accompany the workshops. All workshops will include online forms of communication, so participation at a physical distance can be supported.
-Applications are welcome from all with an interest in libraries and in particular from those who are curious to experiment with creating a library for their own community, in a mutually supported environment.
-== Documentation ==
-Participants who choose to be involved in documentation in the later stages of the series will also receive a small fee as compensation.
-== Application ==
-To apply, please send a brief description of your motivation to pls[at]simonbrowne.biz by Friday the 24th of September, 2021. All participants will be informed of the results of the selection by the 30th of September, 2021.
-== Acknowledgement ==
-''Parallel Library Services'' is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL.