Library Stack: connecting (hybrid) publications and libraries

Check out Library Stack, a project that works towards connecting artistic publications and library databases, and interested in getting in touch with relevant partners. Here’s a short intro:

Library Stack is an online database, archive and distribution system for digital publications from the visual arts, design, architecture and theory. We collect ebooks, video, audio and software, while focusing on ephemera like podcasts, filmed lectures, field recordings or typefaces. By indexing these non-traditional publications according to Open Archives standards, depositing their metadata into the WorldCat database, and archiving the original files in secure cloud storage, Library Stack works within a post-custodial paradigm to provide a portal between independent publication platforms and library patrons. Library Stack serves artists, faculty, students and researchers by mapping the new landscape of arts publishing and connecting it with wider topics in the humanities.

Visit: https://www.librarystack.org
Contact: admin@librarystack.org

Out Now: APRIA #3 – Urgent Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, October 12, 2021

Edited by Miriam Rasch and Nishant Shah. With contributions from Florian Cramer, Labor Neunzehn, Miriam Rasch and Paul Soulellis. Published by ArtEZ Press and APRIA: ArtEZ Platform for Research Interventions of the Arts. Download the print issue here. Publishing can be a slow business—frustratingly so when you want to participate in societal debates that evolve [...]

Print-On-Demand Reflections: Publit vs. Lulu

By Marijn Bril, March 2, 2021

When it comes to printing a book, Print-On-Demand (POD) is an interesting option. However, there is a lot to consider to get the print right and end up with the book you have in mind. The book Satellite Lifelines: Media, Art, Migration and the Crisis of Hospitality in Divided Cities by Isabel Löfgren is published [...]

‘Counter speed with a blossoming of un-immediacy’: interview on Urgent Publishing

By Miriam Rasch, June 25, 2020

For their upcoming podcast series where researchers in the ARIAS network talk about their projects, Morgane Billuart and Katie Clarke asked me to introduce Making Public and the urgent publishing concept and to explain why publishing research is needed. The transcript is shared below, stay tuned for the audio recording! — The world is an [...]