Fragmentatie bibliotheek
Help ons om onze bibliotheek te bewaren door hem op te heffen. Gratis boeken voor iedereen!
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Taking books from the Distributed Library -
Hundreds of members of the Mediamatic community came the first day to meet and pick up their favorite titles.
Mediamatic geeft al haar boeken weg. We stoppen met onze bibliotheek uit protest tegen het huidge kunstsubsidie-beleid. Als het zo gaat dan kunnen wij niet meer zelf voor onze boeken zorgen en moeten we ons publiek te hulp roepen bij het beheren van de collectie. In ruil voor die zorg geven we onze boeken weg.
Alle leden van Mediamatic.net (en andere boekenliefhebbers) kunnen hun favoriete boeken gratis komen ophalen. Je hoeft het boek alleen aan je profiel te koppelen. En beloven dat je het boek altijd uit zult lenen als een ander lid er om vraagt. Zie daar, de gedistribueerde bibliotheek!
Zaterdag 28 juni van 16.00 tot 21.00 uur
Zondag 29 juni van 12.00 tot 17.00 uur
Browse door de collectie
of bekijk een impressie van de 1e dag
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Melancholy in the Library (before distribution) -
The days before the bookfest everything seems to be in order...
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Mediamatic Library after 1 day of distribution -
We've given away 70% of our books in 1 day to the members of the Mediamatic social network.
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Dwaze dagen / Invasion of the book worms at the Mediamatic Distrubuted Library Fest. -
At 16:00 hours on the saturday a crowd rushed into our office to get the first picks. Book lovers are civilised folk though. There was no fighting.
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Wow! there's that vintage copy of Parkett Magazine is was missing! Where? In the Mediamatic Distributed Library of course!
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Long queues at the check out. -
We had four skilled librarians working very hard but the turn out was just too overwhelming.
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But why stand in line if you can read? -
Many visitors spent hours reading before they made their final choice from the Mediamatic Distributed Library.
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Wie het eerst komt, het eerst maalt. We hebben duizenden boeken, tijdschriften en multimedia die een nieuwe eigenaar zoeken. En er is muziek en een boekenbar.
Locatie:
Mediamatic kantoor, Post CS gebouw, Oosterdokskade 5, vijfde verdieping.
(Voor de allerlaatste keer in het Post CS. In juli openen we op een nieuwe locatie....)
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Not enough chairs? no problem. We can read on the floor. -
Director Jans Possel is very happy with the crowd that came to collect our old media.
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I youst found a vintage VOLVO CD-rom at the Mediamatic distributed library fest! -
Texting home about the best finds on the saturday afternoon.
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Argentinian artist Aimée Zito Lema (of Gastarbeider fame) selected a few years of the dutch art magazine Metropolis M at the distributed library fest. Now that's "inburgering" the Mediamatic way!
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Browsing books on the Mediamatic site may be better for your neck. -
Tjerk seems very relaxed though, while he is browsing our physical library for the last time...
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Liquidate the art depots
This is indeed a great project. It was, as I understood, meant in protest of the cultural funding stalemate in 2008. Now, four years later, there are plans for cultural cuts again.
The art depots of museums are chockfull. Why not liquidate them also and do the same with paintings and sculptures as Mediamatic did with books?
Borges must have anticipated this.
Oh this is brilliant. By contrast, a traditional library suddenly seems so cold and lonely and anti-social. SHHHH! the librarian yells.
But Mediamatic patrons gain not only a book, but also a real contact with someone in their own city – and maybe share a coffee, get hints about the book, groove with someone else's enthusiasm.
If Borges (the bibliomancer who wrote ‘The Library of Babel’) did not think of this first, I'm sure he absolutely loves it (up in his beatific Library of bliss).
was there an inspiration for this move or first instance of such thing?
It seems so logical way to deal with analogue/physical library in the context of communal development and shared resources.