FacultyTaxonomyLibrary
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The Faculty of Taxonomy (antisystemic) Library.
The Faculty of Taxonomy Library is a mobile and expanding collection of print-outs from easily copied digital texts, but each is presented here and listed in our Distributed Library Project catalogue (http://dlp.theps.net) as a unique physical object with details about its geospatial location, condition and associations at any time. Readers may add to the collection, recategorize and re-associate the texts either on the website or using the highlighters and filing systems provided. Readers may also use the instructions on hand to join the Antisystemic Library and nominate their own collections of books, videos, zines, maps, flyers as a Distributed Library Project node. A taxonomical games compendium is also available for readers to use or take away.
The Antisystemic Library
The principal of an anti-systemic library is that it does not have a catalogue, i.e. a hierarchical organisation of knowledge, instead it allows each library, each archivist and each researcher to use their own archiving and searching systems, based on their own bibliographies, languages, interests, politics and codes. The Antisystemic Library is not a group as such, rather the libraries that use these principles considered as a whole can be called 'The Anti-systemic Library'.
The Distributed Library Project - http://dlpdev.theps.net.
The software we are helping to build is the metadata system for the Antisystemic Library, using this website (or installing the software on a web server) readers can create their own library and use their own taxonomical structures for categorizing their collections.
Why bother?
Many public libraries (in the UK at least) are being closed, chronically underfunded or re-branded as 'knowledge stores'. Personal or private collections of books, flyers, zines, and small periodicals have tended to be obscure, hidden and difficult to access, as are their archiving processes and relationships with other materials. Methodlology aside, the purpose of the Antisystemic Library is to provide access to materials and knowledge that has previously had no commercial or official distribution infrastructure.
