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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 11h

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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · 11h

We know that many of you will be starting your journey to Wellington soon, so we’ve included a bunch of travel tips in the #iPRES2025 newsletter, as well as info about the conference app, tips for presenters, how to sign up for iPRES Radio, and more! Have a read at www.ipres2025.nz/post/ipres-2...

iPRES 2025 October Newsletter

Less than one month to iPRES 2025! Our October newsletter has travel tips and other useful information ahead of your journey to Wellington!

www.ipres2025.nz

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Gergely Orosz @gergely.pragmaticengineer.com · 3d

Didn’t think we’d see incompetence at this scale.

The backup of the on-prem data center for the Korean government was in the same location as the primary one.

Any basically qualified tech professional knows that this is no resilient backup: and now all data is lost…

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 7d

Wow, are the tracked data then be used to measure how successful a re-org would be?

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 7d

Yes, I believe the recordings would be made available really soon.

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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · Aug 6

The wait is over! The #iPRES2025 Programme is finally here! 🎉 This year features a dynamic schedule with 7 parallel tracks: 3 hybrid, 3 in person, and 1 virtual.

View the high-level programme as a PDF, or check out the programme spreadsheet for session times and details. www.ipres2025.nz/programme

Kiwi - Stewart Island - Southland, New Zealand - Credit Great South (7)

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Haha thanks. It's my default conference note taking mode. Helps me process and remember what I've heard. BTW, what's the verb for Bluesky? blueskying? Apparently it's skeet-ing? I've been using post-ing

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Final #LIANZA2025 keynote.
Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Final #LIANZA2025 keynote.
Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Success story: West Coast Task Force. Completed works, exported as EPUBs, manually loaded into Overdrive, and available for loan, many for the first time.

#LIANZA2025

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

From Wikisource to public library - pipeline from scans to lendable books. Mike Dickison, Wikipedian @adzebill.bsky.social

#LIANZA2025 #Wikisource

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Plug for online class - Vision: Imagining The Future

Register at imaginingthefuture.lilregie.com

darktimesacademy.co.nz

#LIANZA2025

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Hate is the goal for #disinformation.

These are dangerous times.
Protect yourself and your community.
Don't fall into normalcy bias.
Be driven by love for people and nature.
Support each other.
Money matters.
Marathon, not a sprint.

#LIANZA2025

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Scale.

- Scale destroys trust
- Scale creates targets
- You cannot automate counter disinformation work
- Work together, support each other and
- Add your voice to the chorus - teach lateral reading

#LIANZA2025 #scale #misinfo #disinfo #lateralreading

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Good information seeking questions to counter #misinfo #disinfo
1. Who is behind the information?
2. What does the evidence say? Is the evidence relevant? Us the evidence reliable?
3. What do others say?

All these build on TRUST. Be authentic, be genuine and be there.

#LIANZA2025

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Librarian, one of the most trusted professionals. We need to be worthy of the trust. We are the experts on people and information. We also have the skills to implement evidence-based interventions.

#library #trust #archives

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Funding has pretty much dried out. Attacks in experts. Collapse of international cooperation. Work hasn't been happening the way it used to.

#LIANZA2025

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

#LLM and #GenAI makes it easier to generate disinformation. Hallucinations could become misinformation. LLM could be "infected" with disinfo by state actors.

#LIANZA2025 #misinfo

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Countering misinformation & disinformation. Mandy Henk, Dark Times Academy.

Update 2025: Things are not great and the problem is worsening.

#LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Worries/concerns - authoritarian regimes around the world limiting publishing to approved govt publishers. Rewriting histories.

LIANZA Challenge book register www.lianza.org.nz/introducing-...

#LIANZA2025 #FreedomtoPublish

Introducing the Library Challenge Register – LIANZA

www.lianza.org.nz

Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Example: Bestselling NZ book banned in the US.

[Paraphrased] Don't read the book if you don't like it. Not ban it.

#LIANZA2025

Teacher sacked in culture wars fracas

"We are ready to have our day in court", says a teacher sacked for reading a fun Kiwi book

newsroom.co.nz

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Q abt misinformation disinformation
LL: Library's role important. Help people to sieve through information. Education. AI generated books already in our libraries. Help young ppl to understand the need to be approach any info with [critical thinking].

#LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Q abt freedom to publish.
PD: key principle is to not be too ideological. Listen. Push authors to present a balanced view.
Q: What drove you to publish underrepresented voices?
PD: lots of books of different languages translate to English. But not the other way around.

#LIANZA2025 #FreedomtoPublish

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

Q abt legal context for freedom of information
LL: Classification Act. Classification office. Strict process to evaluate submissions. But Chief Censor, govt appointed. Be aware, be prepared. Overseas example: Librarian of Congress and NARA chief sacked.

#LIANZA2025 #Censorship #BooksBanning

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Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@[email protected] 🐘 @joshuatj.bsky.social · 15d

A trinity of freedoms at risk.
Mod: Marlies Zyp-van der Laan
Panelists
1. Louise LaHatte, LIANZA Standing Committee on Freedom of Information
2. Mandy Hager, Author
3. Peter Dowling, Oratia Media

#LIANZA2025 #FreedomofInformation
#FreedomofExpression
#FreedomtoPublish
#FreedomtoRead
#Censorship

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