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From the Archives: Week 12

We’ve now reached the end of the twelfth week of lockdown – here are most recent selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. Cosmo China: 20th Anniversary Exhibition by Josie Firmin (2010)
  2. It’s Nice to Make by Mah Rana (2013)
  3. The UK Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef How-To booklet by Crafts Council (2011)
  4. No Words by David Key (2006)
  5. Whisker: Issue Two by Hazem Tagiuri et al (2013)
  6. The True Levellers Standard Advanced (1649) & Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU (2000) by Gerard Winstanley et al & the EU (2015)
  7. Knowing Where You Are by Sarah Butler (2011)

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From the Archives: Week 11

Latest selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. Reflections on the city from a post-flâneur by Ruth Maclennan (2011)
  2. Le Corbeau / The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe tr. Stéphane Mallarmé (1875/2009)
  3. Atomic Scientists News by Gair Dunlop (2014)
  4. A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift (1729/2008)
  5. Sole Rights by Roshini Kempadoo (2002)
  6. I Feel Different by LACE (2009)
  7. Tales of Things: Objects, Stories & Voices from the BME Communities in Greenwich by Chris Speed et al (2010)
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From the Archives: Week 10

Our 10th week of lockdown selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
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  1. The Octuplet: Story of Our Lives by Babette Wagenvoort (2009)
  2. The Island Bell by Katherine Meynell (2000)
  3. Pride Of The Moor – a song to Dartmoor’s tin by Jim Causley & Simon Pope (2010)
  4. Marseille Mix – turn down the heat by William Firebrace (2008)
  5. The Petition of Right (1628), Grand Remonstrance (1641) & Charter88 (1988) by various (2015)
  6. Canyon Flow by Joyce Majiski & Zea Morvitz (2014)
  7. A London Childhood 1926-1939 by Henry Long (2014)
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From the Archives : Week 9

More selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. H2O by Alejandra Canales, Anne Ransquin & Juan F. Salazar (2009)
  2. An Agreement of the Free People of England (1649) & The People’s Charter (1838) by John Lilburne et al & The Chartists (2015)
  3. The Anthropofferjist Charles Dickens: “Wapping Ghost Ship” by Steve Beard (2002)
  4. Code by Gair Dunlop (2012)
  5. Sea Shanties collated by Francis McKee (2008).
  6. He Who Sleeps Dines by London Fieldworks (Bruce Gilchsrist & Jo Joelson, 2011)
  7. The Thetford Travelling Menagerie by DodoLab (Andrew Hunter & Lisa Hirmer, 2011)

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From the Archives: Week 8

Another serving of selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. The Fact of the Matter by Anne Tallentire & Monica Ross (2000)
  2. Tender Buttons by Gertrude Stein – 4 books (1914/2008)
  3. Play Guide – Outside The Box by Proboscis (2013)
  4. Phantom Shifts: Performance Notations by Aaron Williamson (2000)
  5. Recollections of Geo. Benford & O’Shea by Alf & Nance Wood (2014)
  6. Landscape 3 Acts: Return • Dispersal • Circulation by Kathryn Yusoff (2006)
  7. The New Wizard of the West by Chauncy Montgomery M’Govern (1899/2013)
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From the Archives: Week 7

More selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. River Gap by Ben Eastop (2011)
  2. State of the Union by Robert Ransick (2009)
  3. Landscapes In Dialogue: reflections by Alice Angus (2010)
  4. A Manual for Maverick Machines by Karen Martin (2007)
  5. – – – – by Michael Atavar (2002)
  6. The Show by desperate optimists (2011)
  7. Skyline & Sightlines by Simon Pope (2011)

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From the Archives: Week 6

This week’s selections from the archives of diffusion.org.uk and bookleteer’s own Public Library are below.
Follow the series day by day on twitter at #makingreading:

  1. Common Sense by Thomas Paine (1776/2008)
  2. Hard Hearted Hannah: Classics from Nowhere (Part 1 of 6) by Cartoon de Salvo (2010)
  3. The 36 Stratagems by anonymous (c.1600s/2009)
  4. Seven Days in Seven Dials: A Week in the Life of London’s Cultural Quarters (1 of 3) by Dan Thompson et al (2010)
  5. Remix Reconvex Reconvexo by Karla Brunet (2010)
  6. Towards Psychonutrition by John Hartley (2011)
  7. Layered City As Material: Underside by Alex Deschamps-Sonsino et al (2010)
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Islington & Wembley Pop Up Publishing Workshops

More workshops are being held next week in Islington & Wembley Libraries as part of the Librarypress project. Below is the presentation I’ll be using to illustrate my talk on bookleteer to participants and explore the kinds of things they can do with it.

Pop Up Publishing with bookleteer from Giles Lane
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the Periodical issue 16

dal-rialta-book

A few months ago I met accessibility and sensory design consultant, Alastair Somerville, who was in town to demonstrate using simple and cheap visualisation tools such as the 3Doodler pen. Over coffee we chatted about 3D printing, data manifestation and some of the tools and techniques we’ve each developed. Alastair showed me a material he has been using in wayfinding for people with visual impairments: Zy.chem swell paper, a specially treated material where the black ink ‘swells’ up to create a textured surface. Alastair had been using it to make simple tactile maps and for braille. We both then became excited about the possibilities of using the Zy.chem paper with bookleteer to create simple and low-cost braille and textured publications.

Very soon afterwards Alastair experimented with a wayfunding guide for a project he was working on for the University of Sussex’s new library, The Keep. He sent me a copy printed on the Zy.chem paper which confirmed for me that this was a material with hugely exciting creative potential. I then asked Alastair if he would consider making something special for the Periodical so we could demonstrate this to others. The result is this beautiful guide to Dal Riata, an ancient Scottish kingdom in Kilmartin Glen, Argyll which has some of the most extensive neolithic earthworks and structures in the UK.

Alastair’s book uses the zy.chem paper to impart the texture of some of the neolithic stone features of Dal Riata as well as some maps of significant sites. In addition to the tactile paper, one sheet is also printed on tracing paper, overlaying the bigger map of Scotland and Northern Ireland onto a tactile map of the kingdom of Dal Riata itself, and then providing a ‘mist’ overlaying a section about the disappearance of the kingdom during the Viking raids of the early Middle Ages. At once informative and poetic, it holds its own sense of magic and mystery within its very textures.

Alastair has posted a Vine video:

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Field Work eNotebook

Subscribe to the Periodical to receive your own eNotebook. Complete and return it to Proboscis for digitisation. Several times a year – depending on the quality and quantity of what we receive – we will select and print a Field Work eNotebook for inclusion in a Periodical issue.