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- Crashkurse |
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In this crash course we distinguish - if you participate - between three system perspectives with regard to the library:
| 1.) | the conventionally understood library, i.e. a set of vague texts, such as the book collection of a university. |
| 2.) | the library as a space of action for librarians, for example the original Universitas, in which written discussions and compilations take place, whereby a collection of books or texts is created and managed in the sense of the conventionally understood library. |
| 3.) | the library generated by the observer, i.e. an action context for the interpretation of communicative collaborative processes that lead to artifacts that we understand as texts in libraries. |
In the first perspective the library appears as an object. It is material, once in the immediate sensuousness as people in buildings with books and once in the medially mediated, but also material sensuousness of the Internet, where the library and the books appear virtually on the screen. The second perspective focuses on the actions of the librarians who constitute the library. In this perspective the librarians belong to the system as processors. The third perspective reflects the interpretations I make as an observer in the first two perspectives.
We construct a hyper library (a virtual library on the Internet). We use "library" as a metaphor for our handling of "electronic documents". We thus reconstruct a library that corresponds to our conventional visual understanding. We thus make our understanding of a library operationally explicit.
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Instructions to potential librarians:
Be aware of how you envision a library. |
Get an idea of a library and the books and the people who are there. Imagine what people - librarians and visitors - do there. |
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Implementation:
Visit a library - at least in your imagination! |
To imagine something, you have to stand in front of yourself. Since we move around more easily than libraries, in this case it may mean standing in front of a library. |
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Examples:
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A picture says (sometimes) more than a thousand words among others Athens, Alexandria today and 2000 years ago |
The course begins with some conceptual, system-theoretical agreements that will be used later in the instructions. . I want to see those!..
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