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#WLIC2025 That legendary moment when the #Busan delegation, host of #WLIC2026 leaves the scene in #Astana amidst the music of #Golden #KpopDemonHunters #IFLA 🤓🥳🤘
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#WLIC Incoming #IFLA President Leslie Weir, together with quebequois music 🥳 #LAC #Canada #Quebec
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#WLIC2025 Outgoing #IFLA President Vicki McDonald and Incoming President Leslie Weir, a fantastic duo of professionals
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🎮 Retro games shaped generations. But many are vanishing.

Some, like educational games by Yaakov Kirschen, who died on April 14, were almost lost forever.

Journalist @kirkman.bsky.social explains why preserving niche software matters: blog.archive.org/2025/05/07/v...

🕳️ #VanishingCulture
“Only 13 percent of all classic games released between 1960 and 2009 are currently commercially available.”

Survey of the Video Game Reissue Market in the United States (2023).

Josh Renaud
Journalist & computer historian
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#WLIC2025 Highly interesting and interactive workshop on #informationintegrity run by #FAIFE . Thanks to Jonathan Hernandez, Clarissa Voguel and Maria de Brasdefer for a great session on a critically important topic
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#WLIC2025 Margaret Tarpley, practical #initiatives that #libraries can take on #sustainability and #disaster #risk #management
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#WLIC2025 Cindy Pierard, Rice University, Academic #libraries, three areas for #involvement #Disinformation #Factchecking #Responsibility #Engagement
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#WLIC2025 #LIBRI #Libraries as key resources for #integration of #migrants
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#WLIC2025 Ines Ferreira and Claudia Serbanuta present LIBRI, a fantastic European project with 50 cities from 5 countries targeting #inclusion of migrants in #libraries
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#WLIC2025 Jelena Glisovic presents a spirited and successful campaign by Serbian librarians to prevent a tax on book lending. No decisions on #Libraries without #librarians
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#WLIC2025 Kirsten Wurmann presents a very relevant project to bring #library collections to #Manitoba #prisons #inclusion
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#WLIC2025 Juliana Pranke reflects about the implications of a legal case for German Librarians. How to deal with #disinformation #curation #censorship
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#WLIC2025 Ertugrul Cimen, Chair of European Regional Division and incoming Chair of #IFLA Regional Council
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#WLIC2025 Saif Aljabri, from Oman, chair of Middle East North Africa #MENA describes the transnational initiatives to share Regional #cultural #heritage
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Dianne Koen, Chair of North American Regional Division , McGill University, describes the very difficult situation that the Division faces. She proposes to fight back against the many fold threats through #advocacy
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#WLIC2025 Alejandro Santa, Biblioteca del Congreso Argentina, outgoing chair of #IFLA Regional Council. We need to give voice to librarians in all their diversity. Regional Council is a key element to guarantee diversity within IFLA
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#WLIC2025 #Advocacy and #Collaboration in a time of global #upheaval : a unified response from the #IFLA Regional Divisions