I use the word hypertext because of Octavia Butler. She was interviewed around 1996 about hypertext. The guy who was speaking to her asked what she thought about the internet and what she thought about hypertext. She was like, “Oh, I don’t really use the internet like that, but I do believe in primitive hypertext.” It means that as she creates material she’s reading into one thing, listening to this other thing, and floating passively between lots of different registers. This process is generative to her because it then allows her to create something that intimately connects different things that you may not imagine being related.

Établissements porteurs de la politique de lecture publique d’un pays, les bibliothèques sont des éléments-clés de la chaîne du livre. Pour commencer, tout simplement parce qu’elles ont pour vocation de rendre les livres et l’information plus largement accessibles, pour tous, sans distinction des origines, des situations ou des compétences.

Les bibliothécaires assument un rôle de médiation, entre les usagers et les ouvrages du fonds, incontournable. Ils sont aussi à l’origine des animations au sein de l’établissement, avec un souci d’innovation permanent. La bibliothèque et son catalogue sont souvent présents sur internet, avec de nombreux documents à la clé…

On compte différents types de bibliothèques, des établissements territoriaux aux bibliothèques patrimoniales, en passant par les structures privées et associatives.

In “Expired,” each picture serves as an homage to the book’s history, etched onto the pages by way of marginalia, a yellowed coffee splatter, or sticky peanut-butter-and-jelly fingerprints. It's easy to feel a sense of abuse and loss, but these books say much more. They show the evidence of everyone that has touched them, because they were well read, and well loved. They were not left on shelves, untouched. Now they have a new life, as portraits or records of the shared experience unique to the library book.