The Library As Map

We are careful selectors, nowhere

near the “save everything” end of the

continuum. What’s most interesting

to us is to build our own very specific

collection, and in doing so model

ways of collection-building that could

be useful to other people. We want

to embody the idea that everyone can

be their own archivist. If more people

carefully chose a collection of evidence

to save, then there would be less of

a need for people to save everything.

Libraries like ours can be built by

anyone, anywhere. We do have a

particular collecting strategy, but we

are just two people.