In preparation for the upcoming session at the Reanimation Library, it would be great if everyone who has signed up could arrive with a basic understanding of the library. If you haven't already done so, please take a look at the following pages:

http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/about.htm
http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/overview.htm
http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/personal.htm
http://www.reanimationlibrary.org/pages/faq.htm

While I will give a brief introduction/orientation, I don't plan on talking at length about the library because I would prefer for people to have as much time as possible to develop their research projects.

I will, however, likely be referencing a few other sites/concepts in my discussion which you should probably take a look at:

NYPL Digital Library Projects

http://www.inmotionaame.org/home.cfm

Saturday, April 24, 12–4pm, Dexter Sinister at 38 Ludlow Street in Manhattan, taught by David Reinfurt.
Class limit: 15. This session is now full. Email thepublicschoolny@gmail.com to add your name to the waiting list.
All sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE.

Portable Document Formats

I was looking quicly online for interactive maps and I found this one

http://www.ridethecity.com/

And they actually have an open source "easy to use" mapping tool

check http://mapzen.cloudmade.com/

An interesting photo/mapping/cycling project:

http://digital.nypl.org/boroughedges/

Hi everyone,

Below are a few things to look at for next week's session. I may be posting a some more stuff in the coming days so stay tuned.

-c

The Unworkable Interface 
by Alex Galloway
http://a.aaaarg.org/text/3157/unworkable-interface 

User Labor:
http://userlabor.org/

NEWSPAPERS AND THINKING THE UNTHINKABLE
by Clay Shirky 
http://www.shirky.com/weblog/2009/03/newspapers-and-thinking-the-unthinkable/

Micro Economies of Attention
http://blog.connectbeam.com/blog/2008/12/micro-economies-of-attention.html

The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 4 
Sunday, April 11, 4 pm, at 177 Livingston; taught by Rick Prelinger
All sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE.

Rick Prelinger is an archivist, writer and filmmaker, and founder of the Prelinger Archives, a collection of 60,000 ephemeral films later acquired by The Library of Congress. He is also co-founder of the Prelinger Library (with spouse Megan Shaw Prelinger), an appropriation-friendly, browsable reference library located in San Francisco, and lectures widely on American cultural and social history.

The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 3
Tuesday, March 2, 7:15pm, at The Reanimation Library at 543 Union Street, Brooklyn;
Class limit: 10 students; taught by Andrew Beccone
All sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE.

The Page + The Screen: Siting Text in the Early 21st Century and Beyond | Session 2
Thursday, February 25, 7:30 pm, at 177 Livingston; taught by Bob Stein + Dan Visel
All sessions of The Page + The Screen are FREE.

Visel is a researcher and Stein is the director of the Institute for the Future of the Book, a publishing think tank based in Brooklyn. Stein is the co-founder of Voyager, the pioneering CD-ROM publisher that spawned the Criterion Collection, and the founder of Night Kitchen, a company dedicated to developing authoring tools for the next generation of electronic publishing.

Here’s a discussion series that you may want to attend. The topic is relevant to both The Page + The Screen and Texts + Textures classes. Organized by Kazys Varnelis, the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, the discussions are based on the issues covered in his book, Networked Publics. This is the book description from Amazon.com:

Here’s a discussion series that you may want to attend. The topic is relevant to both The Page + The Screen and Texts + Textures classes. Organized by Kazys Varnelis, the Director of the Network Architecture Lab at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, the discussions are based on the issues covered in his book, Networked Publics. This is the book description from Amazon.com: