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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Aug 12

New research could block AI learning from your online content www.csiro.au/en/news/All/...

New research could block AI learning from your online content

The method protects images from being used to train AI or create deepfakes by adding invisible changes that confuse the technology.

www.csiro.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Aug 9

24 hour libraries making the HSC study possible www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

It’s approaching midnight, and this 24-hour venue is full of unsupervised teens

By 10.30pm the car park is overflowing with P-plates and there is a strict security system at the door of Sydney’s HSC study hot spot.

www.smh.com.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 23

Here’s a project you probably don’t know about and your world will be better for knowing about - Malawi Folklore (yes of course there’s a library involvement - how else would I find things?) malawifolklore.mw/about/

About — Malawi Folklore

malawifolklore.mw

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 22

Congratulations to the Australian Media Literacy Alliance on its incorporation! www.alia.org.au/Web/News/Art...

Australian Media Literacy Alliance takes major leap forward

The Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) welcomes the incorporation of the Australian Media Literacy Alliance.

www.alia.org.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 21

Library Resource sharing is a super power, and it’s going through a lot of change right now. Come and join the ALIA Resource Sharing Special Interest Group for a mini-share that considers the ILRS and what's next. Celebrating #LIW2025

www.alia.org.au/EventDetail?...

Event Display

www.alia.org.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 21

NSW library people between 18-28 - you can apply to be the youth representative on the SLNSW Board! iworkfor.nsw.gov.au/job/young-bo...

Find your next role in the public sector I Work for NSW

iworkfor.nsw.gov.au

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iPRES 2025 International Conference on Digital Preservation @ipres2025.bsky.social · Jul 9

The July #iPRES2025 newsletter is now available! This month we announce the conference dinner venue, introduce the digital preservation bake off, and discuss kindred and co-located events happening around the conference in Wellington. Have a read at www.ipres2025.nz/post/ipres-2...

iPRES 2025 July Newsletter

Updates on the conference dinner, cultural welcome, digital preservation bake off, and organising travel to Wellington!

www.ipres2025.nz

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 16

Do you know an LIS masters student (completed at least 2 courses by 15 August) who would like some free money to support their study and research? We’ve extended the Charlotte Henry study grant - info here

alia.org.au/Web/Web/Our-...

Charlotte Henry Study Grant

An annual grant of up to $5000 for an ALIA Member who is studying for a Masters qualification in library and information science through an ALIA accredited education provider.

alia.org.au

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Anne Holmes @polyxena7.bsky.social · Jul 10

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Hundreds form human chain to help Melbourne’s oldest bookshop relocate after more than a century

Literature lovers braved wintry weather to pass thousands of books from Hill of Content’s original Bourke Street premises to its new home

www.theguardian.com

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 10

Do you know someone looking for a great PhD opportunity with a great academic supervisor? PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia” hblog.org/2025/06/18/p...

PhD scholarship to “reimagine AI answer systems for critical AI literacy in Australia”

I have a scholarship for a PhD student to work on my Future Fellowship project. Below is the description that will soon appear on UTS’s website. Feel free to ping me if you’re intereste…

hblog.org

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 5

Congratulations to all the people recognised at the 50th NAIDOC week awards! www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Daniel Hunt wins coveted NAIDOC Person of the Year

The National NAIDOC Awards have wrapped up for another year. Here's your guide to the winners list.

www.abc.net.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jul 4

“By far the most troubling thing I learnt while researching this story is the decline of school libraries in public schools, both in their number and standard of facilities.”
www.smh.com.au/national/a-t... #Reading #Libraries

‘A ticking time bomb’: How Australia’s reading slump is making us stupid

Low literacy. A drop in recreational reading. Students who can’t finish texts. A book industry of falling margins. The decline in reading poses a risk to us all.

www.smh.com.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 29

I can’t think it’s anything you did wrong a just that the odds are quite spectacularly in favour of no attention so it’s a lot of skill and a lot of luck when it happens (unless you are a celebrity commissioned to write a cookbook)

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 28

Interesting look at book censorship in Malaysia
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

'Bans and intimidation': Malaysia's war on books

Malaysian authorities raided this bookstore on Wednesday to seize two books on the grounds of morality. But for the bookstore staff and publishers, this is just another day.

www.abc.net.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 26

I find that the average Australian vastly overestimates the average print run for a fiction title - by a factor of at least 10 and up to 100+

Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 26

congratulations!

Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 26

📚Can you help?

There’s nothing our Librarian, Partnership and Governance Lisa enjoys more than receiving a long lost copy of AARL and we are down to the last missing volume...

Do you have AARL Volume 23 Issue 3 1992 sitting on your shelves? If you do, we would love to hear from you.

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 25

Happy 40th to the Alexander Building - home of SLWA! I put this in my talk the other day on great libraries amp-abc-net-au.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/amp.abc....

Alexander Library building celebrates 40 years as a Perth icon - ABC News

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 23

A fascinating trip down the historical censorship of comics in Australia from @iurgi.com - well worth your time to read #Libraries #AusLibChat www.iurgi.com/2025/06/book...

Book Challenges and Bans Part 3: Comics Censorship in 1950s Australia

www.iurgi.com

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 22

inefficient 😢

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 22

not my area of expertise- but if you haven’t heard back with an ETA it might be worth checking the request went through?

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 22

Students need school libraries - in an age if mis and disinformation, AI summaries and declining literacy - why would you get rid of your specialised staff in these areas? www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.bbc....

Librarians set to be removed from every Glasgow secondary school - BBC News

A principal librarian and a team of assistants would cover Glasgow's 30 secondary schools if council budget cuts are approved.

www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org

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Jane Cowell @janecowell.bsky.social · Jun 18

The Australian Public and Educational Lending Right Schemes directly benefit authors and publishers as their books are loaned through libraries www.tonyburke.com.au/media-releas...

MORE MONEY FOR AUSTRALIAN WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS — Tony Burke MP

This week, more than $28 million has made its way directly to authors, illustrators and publishers across almost 18,000 annual payments, thanks to the Albanese Labor Government’s Public and Educationa...

www.tonyburke.com.au

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 21

we did periodically get people thinking it was political - but in the other hand, we all knew what it was! #AusLibChat - how do others feel?

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Trish Hepworth @trishhepworth.bsky.social · Jun 20

Hi Australian Library Crew - Any suggestions for an Australian library/LIS hashtag that doesn’t get us confused with a major political party? What are people using? #Libraries #Library #LIS #Skybrarain #AusLibChat

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