So, I move on with my thoughts on the piece of text. I started to think about my house as the library and therefore how I may have to catagorize everything. Maybe I could do this on the small telephone directory cards that are kept in a box? this all seemed a bit overwhelming, a bit like the feeling I had when I first went into a library when I started this MA. I had not been in one for many years, and felt a little out of touch to say the least. How was I to take all this in, where was I to start?This led to me thinking about the overwhelming size of the Library of Babel, every book ever published, even those that have not been yet. All looking the same in size and content. The shear size seemed to make it inaccessible. I then moved towards the inaccessibility idea, and began to think about how I could make all that information even more inaccessible. If you where blind! So the only way to read anything then would be if all was written in Braille. Next step seemed to be to then print the dots rather than have them raised. This would then make them inaccessible to the blind, even though the information is still there in full.
For the first stage of this area of thought I have kept to the book publishing theme and researched information regarding the an mount of books published by 91 countries. the figures are from the last time the surveys where done in each country. Most are fairly recent but one does go back to 1990. So this information gathered, the country, the year, and the amount of books published by that country, I produced a pice of information graphics in the form of a poster. This information I then changed into Braille, and as mentioned above, because it is printed or on screen, it is inaccessible to the blind as well. To further cut down the people able to access the information, I think I will look at it in red/green, thus causing problems for colour blind people that may be able to read Braille.
Why not just a blank sheet you may ask? well this poster contains a lot of interesting information that is very difficult to access, not really what our job is about.
I will now move this to the next stage, firstly the cards and then music. yes lets see if that one works!
