Unbound Libraries: Index of materials

During the worksession

Recordings of work moments

A conversation between Rosemary (Mayday Rooms) and Mia & Loraine (BAL - Brussels Almenac Lesbian) about fragmented ephemera – or ways to not be daunted by the body of material at your hands - 1h14: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/bal_maydayrooms_ephemera_discussion_200603.webm
The team of Feminist Search Tool discusses the idea of complexifying gender categories in libraries - 1h16: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/complexifying_gender_categories_discussion_200602.webm
Discussion about questions around response-ability, openness, federation mechanisms and RSS feeds-podcasts starting from https://monoskop.org/images/c/cc/Mansoux_Aymeric_Abbing_Roel_Roscam_2020_Seven_Theses_on_the_Fediverse_and_the_Becoming_of_FLOSS.pdf with Roel, Femke, Rosemary, Eva - 1:14: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/response-ability_and_openness_discussion_200602.webm
To Be Determined (Clara and Matthew) talk about the physical migration of libraries and spineless publications, or on the experience of shipping one’s library as a form of mooring, when one has forsaken home - 54:11: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/migration_of_libraries_TBD_discussion_200603.webm
Rosemary (https://leftove.rs/), Eva (https://leftove.rs/), Femke(https://diversions.constantvzw.org/paul-otlet-an-omissum/) discuss 3 cases of omission in libraries - 51:28: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/omission_discussion_200603.webm
Discussion with Elodie on open access in relation to cultural appropriation - 51:43: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/open_access_and_cultural_appropriation_discussion_200603.webm
Open Source Publishing (Alex & Gijs) give a guided tour on tools and tricks to unbind pdfs - 1:10: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/unbinding_pdfs_guided_tour_200603.webm
A following-up talk on the dis/affordances of federation mechanisms moderated by Roel - 1h17: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/dis-affordances_of_federation_discussion_200604.webm

Collective notetaking

General

Program: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_program.raw.txt
Brainstorm (an overlook on ongoing threads for the week): http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_brainstorm.raw.txt
Starting questions (trace of a round of questions on the first day): http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_questions.raw.txt
Program for friday afternoon: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_sharing_moment.raw.txt

Threads

Rebinding licenses: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unbound.license.raw.txt
Unbinding pdfs: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unbinding_pdfs.raw.txt
Short introduction to the IRC Chat: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_IRC.raw.txt
Open access and cultural appropriation: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_appropriateaccess.raw.txt
MARC Records: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_marcru.raw.txt
Omission: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_omission_discussion.raw.txt
Research on Podcasts, RSS and aggregators: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_rss.raw.txt
Fragments and ephemera BAL & MDR: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/fragmentedephemera.raw.txt
Complexifying Gender Categories FST: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_complicating_gender_classification.raw.txt
http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/ihlia-conversation.raw.txt
http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/fst_json_test.raw.txt
To Be Determined http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/HWGLInterview.raw.txt

http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary.neighborlytranscripts.raw.txt

Federation Mechanisms: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_FAC.raw.txt

http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_fed.raw.txt

Tour of Mayday Rooms Archive: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary.leftovers_metadata.raw.txt
Exercises: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unbinding_exercises.raw.txt
Unbinding/Rebinding exercise: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibraries_gurgulu.raw.txt
Hotglue collage with images: https://www.hotglue.constantvzw.org/?unboundlibraries

Before the worksession

Reader

We selected fragments of texts and organised them in a reader that was posted to the participants in the first week of May.

References and different possible orderings: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_reader.raw.txt
Pdfs https://unboundlibraries.constantvzw.org/reader

Conversations with participants during the month of May

As we were 21 unbound librarians trying to get to know each other, collaborate and exchange as much as possible, we decided to organise online conversations with each one during the month of May. People could listen in if they were interested. Every conversation was recorded and shared online.

Index: http://etherdump.constantvzw.org/p/unboundlibrary_conversations.raw.txt
Open Source Publishing: Notes - Recording
Roel Roscam Abbing: Notes - Recording
BAL (Brussel Almanack Lesbian*) (Jessica Gysel, Loraine Furter, Mia Melvær): Notes - Recording
Feminist Search Tool (Anja Groten-Hackers & Designers, Angeliki Diakrousi, Alice Strete, Annette Krauss, Ola Hassanin, Svenja Engels, Laura Pardo (Read-in): Notes - Recording
Eva Weinmayr (AND, Piracy Project, Why Publish?): Notes - Recording
Infrastructural Manoeuvres (Anita, Martino): Notes - Recording
Wendy Van Wynsberghe (Constant): Notes - Recording
TBD (To Be Determined) (Clara Balaguer): Notes - Recording
Peter Westenberg (Constant): Notes - Recording
Femke Snelting (Constant): Notes - Recording
Mayday Rooms (Rosemary Grennan): Notes - Recording
Rebal (Jacopo Anderlini): Recording

Interviews of local experts during the month of May

To prepare this worksession we organised a few interviews with people working in libraries.

Muntpunt, Lise Vanderpiete: Muntpunt is a public Flemish library in the center of Brussels where we would have organised the worksession in normal times. Last year they organised a ‘decolonizing trajectory’ for which they invited 13 curators who could select books to add to the collection. Lise Vanderpiete coordinated the project. Recording Unbound Libraries: Index of materials, unboundlibraries_materials_index.nl.html
KBR, Frédéric Lemmers: KBR is the acronym for Koninklijke Bibliotheek / Bibliothèque Royal. It is the Royal Library of Belgium located in the center of Brussels. Over the years they developed their own digitization department, managed now by Frédéric Lemmers. He gave us a tour of the department and highlighted the main challenges and issues.
KBR, Hannes Lowagie: As an employee of KBR Hannes Lowagie is responsable for the digital catalogue. Two years ago KBR decided to merge all the separate database systems - related to different departments, like ‘coins’, ‘manuscripts’ etc - into one. Hannes was responsible for this process. He has also some thoughts about how the profession of cataloguist is changing in the digital age. Recording
Cultuurconnect, Rosa Matthys: Rosa is retired since 5 months, but for 40 years she has been a cataloguist working on the federal system for Flanders. Notes - Recording
Cultuurconnect, Annika Buysse: Annika is responsable for keywording & SISO/ZIZO system for libraries in Flanders. Notes - Recording
Bruxelles nous appartient/Brussel behoort ons toe (BNA-BBOT), Séverine Janssen: BNA-BBOT is a 20 year old archive with audio recordings/stories from people living in Brussels by people living in Brussels. With Séverine we discussed the ideas of ‘minor’ archive, ‘oral’ history, participatory methods of collecting interviews/sounds/testimonies in Brussels. Notes - Recording

After the worksession

A guided decolonial tour of the catalogue of Muntpunt with Heleen Debeuckelaere. Heleen is a historian, writer and organizer based in Brussels. She regularly contributes to Belgian and international media and was involved in the birth of the non-profit organization “Metissen van België” and the video channel Black speak Back. Last year she led a curators team on a special collection for the Muntpunt library on the theme of “decolonization” - 1h6: https://video.constantvzw.org/Unbound_Libraries/recordings_worksession/heleen_debeuckelaere_tour.webm

Images during the worksession

https://unboundlibraries.constantvzw.org/images