Searching for a Library Child

Abstract

Through the building and maintenance of systems in libraries, a universal child is constructed. While many systems scaffold the Library, this paper focuses on the library catalog, as it systematizes and makes legible the Library Child. By reading the Library through theories of power, infrastructure, and childhood, the complexity of systems that work on both the Child and the Library. Ways to challenge that system are available when we know what the system looks like and how it works.

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