In Solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (2015) [EN, IT, BR-PT, SK, ES, DE, FR, BG, RO, SC, UA, RU, HI, CN, HU, BE, LT, SL]

Sharing knowledge is now an act of civil disobedience.

Released 30 Nov 2015

Letter:
In solidarity with Library Genesis and Sci-Hub (English, custodians.online, 30 Nov 2015). Copy. TXT version.
In solidarietà con Library Genesis e Sci-Hub (Italian, trans. Rete della Conoscenza, 1 Dec). Copy.
Em solidariedade com Library Genesis e Sci-Hub (Brazilian Portuguese, trans. Dimas Gomez, 1 Dec). Copy.
V solidarite s Library Genesis a Sci-Hub (Slovak, trans. Monoskop, 1 Dec). Copy.
En solidaridad con Library Genesis y Sci-Hub (Spanish [MX], trans. Rafael Mondragón, 2 Dec). Copy, Audio (voices: Adriana & Iván, 8 Dec).
En solidaridad con Library Genesis y Sci-Hub (Spanish [PE], trans. Giancarlo Sandoval, 2 Dec)
Solidaridad con Library Genesis y Sci-Hub (Spanish [PE], trans. Carlos Maza, 2 Dec)
In Solidarität mit Library Genesis und Sci-Hub (German, trans. Paul Feigelfeld, 2 Dec)
En solidarité avec Library Genesis et Sci-Hub (French, trans. Bertrand Marilier, 2 Dec)
В солидарност с Library Genesis и Sci-Hub (Bulgarian, trans. Neda Genova, 2 Dec). Copy.
Solidari cu Library Genesis şi cu Sci-Hub (Romanian, trans. SorinDănuţ, 2 Dec)
Za slobodan pristup znanju: solidarnost sa portalima Library Genesis i Sci-Hub (Serbo-Croatian, trans. Milica Jovanović/SHARE Foundation, 3 Dec). Copy.
На знак солидарности з ресурсами Library Genesis та Sci-Hub (Ukrainian, trans. Спільне/Commons, 3 Dec). Copy.
В знак солидарности с ресурсами Library Genesis и Sci-Hub (Russian, trans. hwait, Пиратская Церковь, 6 Dec).
लाइब्रेरी-जेनेसिस और साई-हब से संघीभाव में (Hindi, trans. Shveta Sarda, 6 Dec).
声援Library Genesis 和 Sci-Hub (Chinese, trans. Bruce Ding, 7 Dec).
声援 Library Genesis 和 Sci-Hub (simplified Chinese, trans. Yuk Hui).
聲援 Library Genesis 和 Sci-Hub (traditional Chinese, trans. Yuk Hui).
Szolidaritás a Libgen és a Sci-Hub oldalakkal (Hungarian, trans. Ivácson András Áron, 13 Dec).
У знак салідарнасці з Library Genesis i Sci-Hub (Belarusian, trans. Volnaja Dumka, 13 Dec).
Vienijantis su Library Genesis ir Sci-Hub (Lithuanian, trans. Linas Jankauskas, 30 Apr 2016).
V podporo Library Genesis in Sci-Hubu (Slovenian, Humanistična postaja, 31 May 2016)

Response:
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444 (HU)
DragonWeb (HU)
iRights.info (DE)
Sci-Hub (RU)
Steal This Show (podcast with Jamie King, Lawrence Liang and Tomislav Medak)
The Atlantic
John Dupuis (with extensive bibliography)
Le Monde (FR, full access)

Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, WHW (eds.): Public Library / Javna knjižnica (2015) [English/Croatian]

A collection of four essays on the institution of the public library and the relevance of today’s online text collections. Published on the occasion of an exhibition and conference held in Zagreb, Croatia, in May and June 2015.

“The public library is:
* free access to books for every member of society;
* library catalog;
* librarian.
With books ready to be shared, meticulously cataloged, everyone is a librarian. When everyone is librarian, library is everywhere.”

Texts by McKenzie Wark, Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, Manar Zarroug, and Paul Otlet.

Edited by Tomislav Medak, Marcell Mars, and What, How & for Whom (WHW)
Publisher WHW & Multimedia Institute, Zagreb, May 2015
Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 License
ISBN 9789535595137
144 pages
via Memory of the World

PDF, PDF (5 MB)

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Anna-Sophie Springer, Etienne Turpin (eds.): Fantasies of the Library (2015)

“Fantasies of the Library inaugurates the intercalations: paginated exhibition series. Virtually stacked alongside Anna-Sophie Springer’s feature essay about unorthodox responses to the institutional ordering principles of book collections, the volume includes an interview with Rick Prelinger and Megan Shaw Prelinger of the Prelinger Library in San Francisco; reflections on the role of cultural memory and the archive by Hammad Nasar, Head of Research and Programmes at the Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong; a conversation with media theorist Joanna Zylinska about experiments on the intersections of curatorial practice and open source e-books; and a discussion between K’s co-director Charles Stankievech and platform developer Adam Hyde on new approaches to open source publishing in science and academia. The photo essay, “Reading Rooms Reading Machines,” presents views of unusual historical libraries next to works by artists such as Kader Attia, Andrew Beccone, Mark Dion, Rodney Graham, Katie Paterson, Veronika Spierenburg, Andrew Norman Wilson, and others.”

Publisher K. Verlag and HKW, Berlin
Open access
ISBN 9780993907401
147 pages

Review: Jussi Parikka (Leonardo, 2017).

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