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Title: Varia Curriculum: Bibliotecha, building and maintaining an off-line digital library
Date: 2018-10-18
Category: curriculum
tags: interfacing
slug: curriculum-bibliotecha
lang: en
Event_start: 2018-07-06 10:00
event_duration: 5h
featured_image: /images/bibliotecha_01.png
status: draft
## Building and maintaining an off-line digital library
Bibliotecha is a toolkit to maintain local off-line digital libraries. With it, communities can build and share their collections of digital publications in a local area. Technically Bibliotecha relies on a small single board computer (such as a RaspberryPi) running free and open source software to serve digital publications on an open Wi-fi hotspot. Using a laptop, phone or table visitors can connect to it and books can be retrieved or donated via the browser. Since it is a low-power device you can power it with a USB powerbank and take it with you everywhere.
During the workshop we will guide participants through the installation process of a Bilbiotecha node. Participants will get introduced to the open source software stack, working with a RaspberryPi and Calibre the library management tool. This will be followed by a book sharing session and conversation where we exchange knowledge on taking care of a off-line digital community library.
*At the end of the workshop participants will have a basic working understanding of the command line interface, working with Linux and the RaspberryPi.
*In addition participants will get an understanding of the ins and outs of managing collections of digital books.
*Last but not least, participants will take home a working Bibliotecha node, ready to distribute books!
# Varia curriculum
This workshop is organised in the context of the very first series of the Varia curriculum, developed in collaboration with the 3rd year minor “Hacking” of the Autonomous practices from the Willem de Kooning Academy (WdKA) in Rotterdam.
The curriculum is an ongoing series of workshops in which participants are introduced to technical, theoretical and methodological skills at the basis of the various practices that live within Varia. These are short intensive master-classes or workshops aimed towards providing high level introductions as a basis for further explorations.
Would you like to join this workshop? There is still space for a few participants. Please send us a short email on the info[a]varia.zone email address at the 30th of June the latest!
**⌂** Varia, Gouwstraat 3 (Rotterdam Charlois)
**⌚** 06 July 10:00h - 16:00h (Lunch between 12:30h and 13:00h)
**💶** Bring your own Raspberry pi workshop price: $$$ euros or All materials incuded (Raspberry pi 3, power supply, sd card) price: $$$ euros
(coffee, tea and cookies included)*
**💶** The workshop will be conducted in English
**💶** Bring ebooks and pdfs you would like to share with the group
<sup>*</sup> Lack of funds should not obstruct participation. Please get in contact with us to discuss the options (info[a]varia.zone).