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I mention Rumah Buku (the library pictured above, located in Bandung, Indonesia) in a letter I wrote as part of a roundtable that appears on this website:
www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/542

Relevant excerpt:
"In video artist Ariani Darmawan’s Rumah Buku the set-up is a little more upscale—it combines a library, indoor screening room, outdoor garden screenings, and a small shop—but no less firm in spirit and commitment. The venue, which is extremely cozy, with inviting tables and couches, fills the absence created by a lack of a local library on the arts. Anyone can enter, linger, and read the books on-site, but only members can take out books (for a small fee, if I recall correctly in the neighborhood of $1). The price is meant to be filtered back into the purchasing of new books, or to help reimburse the cost of purchasing that one."

Rumah Buku website: library.rukukineruku.com/

Photo taken in Bandung, Indonesia, July 2008.

I mention Rumah Buku (the library pictured above, located in Bandung, Indonesia) in a letter I wrote as part of a roundtable that appears on this website:
www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/542

Relevant excerpt:
"In video artist Ariani Darmawan’s Rumah Buku the set-up is a little more upscale—it combines a library, indoor screening room, outdoor garden screenings, and a small shop—but no less firm in spirit and commitment. The venue, which is extremely cozy, with inviting tables and couches, fills the absence created by a lack of a local library on the arts. Anyone can enter, linger, and read the books on-site, but only members can take out books (for a small fee, if I recall correctly in the neighborhood of $1). The price is meant to be filtered back into the purchasing of new books, or to help reimburse the cost of purchasing that one."

Rumah Buku website: library.rukukineruku.com/

Photo taken in Bandung, Indonesia, July 2008.

I mention Rumah Buku (the library pictured above, located in Bandung, Indonesia) in a letter I wrote as part of a roundtable that appears on this website:
www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/542

Relevant excerpt:
"In video artist Ariani Darmawan’s Rumah Buku the set-up is a little more upscale—it combines a library, indoor screening room, outdoor garden screenings, and a small shop—but no less firm in spirit and commitment. The venue, which is extremely cozy, with inviting tables and couches, fills the absence created by a lack of a local library on the arts. Anyone can enter, linger, and read the books on-site, but only members can take out books (for a small fee, if I recall correctly in the neighborhood of $1). The price is meant to be filtered back into the purchasing of new books, or to help reimburse the cost of purchasing that one."

Rumah Buku website: library.rukukineruku.com/

Photo taken in Bandung, Indonesia, July 2008.

I mention Rumah Buku (the library pictured above, located in Bandung, Indonesia) in a letter I wrote as part of a roundtable that appears on this website:
www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/542

Relevant excerpt:
"In video artist Ariani Darmawan’s Rumah Buku the set-up is a little more upscale—it combines a library, indoor screening room, outdoor garden screenings, and a small shop—but no less firm in spirit and commitment. The venue, which is extremely cozy, with inviting tables and couches, fills the absence created by a lack of a local library on the arts. Anyone can enter, linger, and read the books on-site, but only members can take out books (for a small fee, if I recall correctly in the neighborhood of $1). The price is meant to be filtered back into the purchasing of new books, or to help reimburse the cost of purchasing that one."

Rumah Buku website: library.rukukineruku.com/

Photo taken in Bandung, Indonesia, July 2008.

Library of books and videos maintained by Forum Lenteng, a collective of video artists from Indonesia.

I mention Forum Lenteng and the library in a letter I wrote as part of a roundtable that appears on this website:
www.theauteurs.com/notebook/posts/542

Relevant excerpt:
"For $50 dollars each a month, Forum Lenteng, a collective of video artists (a number of them journalism graduates from a nearby University, which shows in their films) rent two spaces: the first a small room where they edit their videos and keep a main hard drive, the second a video and literature library with a small TV. The films in the library include copies both pirated and original, the books authentic as well as photocopied (a common practice in Manila as well, the photocopying of books), but all are labeled and catalogued methodically, and open to whoever pops in. (A side note: four films from the Massroom Project of Forum Lenteng, who prescribe to the copyleft philosophy, were posted on the website Ubu.com; they count among the supporters of their films, if I’m not mistaken, Nicole Brenez and Olaf Moller)."

Forum Lenteng on Ubu.com: ubu.com/film/lenteng.html

Photo taken in Jakarta, Indonesia, July 2008.