[dlpdev] DLP meeting in Bradford 13/6/04

[Saul Albert]

Hi Everyone,

Aaargh! I'm really sorry, I can't make it on the 13th. I will be coming back
from the http://theps.net/enlarge/ road trip *on* the 13th, and I really don't
think I can do an 18 hour drive back from prague and go straight into a library
meet!

However, I could make it up for the following few days perhaps, if people will
still be around I could do some post-meeting shenanigans.

I've met lots of interesting people here between Ljubljana, Novi Sad, Belgrade,
Sofia, Bratislava, Vienna and Prague. And more than a few people who are very
keen on getting into the library. Particularly people from Slovakia. There are
a group in Bratislava called Burundi (www.burundi.sk) who are planning a
'shared library' project of their own. A very interesting guy called Cuco - who
is a librarian / information scientist himself is particularly into it. I think
they may be up for some shared software developments. Marisha from Burundi is
also very keen and has some great ideas for a more general information sharing
system that might interface to the distributed libraries.

Maria, Cuco, perhaps you'd like to subscribe to this mailing list at
http://lists.theps.net/mailman/listinfo/dlpdev ... to keep in touch..

I also had a very interesting late night tour of Beograd that yeilded some
interesting ideas for the PGA meet at the end of July. The old Narodnoi
Bibliotek that was destroyed by the Nazis is now a quite beautiful brownfield
site - long grasses and rubble, set in the centre of the city, near the Danube.
This could be a perfect place for a librarians meeting / picnic / temporary
library. 

I also heard this *amazing* guy from Budapest - Istvan Rev, give a talk about
the political consciousness of the librarian, and the importance of archiving
as a personal condition as well as a social function. 

His affiliations are with the Open Society Archives - http://www.osa.ceu.hu/
(soros funded, interesting...) and his own archive at the central european
university (http://www.ceu.hu/). He talked about their archive of cold-war
radio broadcast transcriptions - a comprehensive document of all
radio propaganda produced by the West for the East, and by the East for the
West from 1949 to 1993. Apparently the propaganda machines of each cold war
power would gather these broadcasts, translate them and respond to them daily,
creating a kind of meta-political conversation between the powers, with
listeners in each state only ever hearing half the conversation. A fascinating
archive, which he talks about very compellingly.

the archive should appear here in the next few days:
http://freebitflows.t0.or.at/f/conference/archives

the public netbase vienna is usually pretty good about documentation, so I 'll
let you know when it is online.

So, lots to think about, and many ideas flying around central europe about
libraries, archives and possibilities.

I wish I could make it on the 13th, but as I said, if there's anything likely
to happen in the following days I can certainly come to that.

X!

Saul.

On Wed, Jun 02, 2004 at 01:52:34PM +0100, Ellie Clement wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Apologies for the lateness of this confirmation... I hope as many as 
> possible can make it to the DLP meeting on Sunday 13th June at the 
> 1in12 club (starting at noon-ish?)  I believe LARC folks are coming... 
> (in transport?)
> 
> accomodation is available and there's a prisoner support benefit meal 
> on the saturday night for Jeff Luers who is a US environmental activist 
> (£4 for food).  It'd be good to know an idea of numbers for the 
> Saturday evening for catering/accomodation.
> 
> Hope all good library things are going on with you folks
> 
> Ellie
> 
> 
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