Mandy Henk with the Dark Times Academy owl to start her slideshow.

Things are great and the problem is solved! Not.

The mugs ARE very nice and I think you should buy a mug. About $40 plus maybe shipping? says Mandy but she is not good at business also the mugs are heavy, please buy them now.

The #LIANZA2025 presentation by @narwhallibrarian.bsky.social on the state of <flails hands> was both hilarious and sobering. Despite initial appearances, disinformation is not fixed, money to do so is drying up, and @darktimesacademy.bsky.social is fundraising with mugs.

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

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

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

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

#LIANZA2025 #Wikisource

Plug for online class - Vision: Imagining The Future

Register at imaginingthefuture.lilregie.com

darktimesacademy.co.nz

#LIANZA2025

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

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

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

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

#LIANZA2025

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

#LIANZA2025 #misinfo

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

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

#LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation

Introducing the Library Challenge Register – LIANZA

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

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

Example: Bestselling NZ book banned in the US.

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

#LIANZA2025

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

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

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

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

Melissa in front of slide of Peter Jackson brandishing moa bones and some bad moa art.

She ran through AI boosterism/horror stories/fururism without much scepticism or pushback, and finished up with moa—a very telling analogy, as she explained moa revival wouldn’t be quite as promised (not that it’s impossible and a scam). #LIANZA2025

Table of LLM citation sources, Reddit at the top and Wikipedia second.

I got a Wikipedian shout-out jn Melissa Clark-Reynolds’s #LIANZA2025 keynote, but despite that agreed with almost none of it.

Important to celebrate our work.

Research results -> change made to Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Wikipedia article

#LIANZA2025 #librarian #trustedinformationsource

Verifying sources: were whales keeping Wellingtonians awake in the 1800s? - Kim McClintock, Librarian, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa

Tentative conclusion: Tasmania/Australia ad the possible origin of the story. Changed to Wellington later.

See blog post for full story.

#LIANZA2025

Stack of What Is Wikisource? pocket-sized zine.

Cover and interior of the Wikisource zine in tiny type with colour images: these cost about $1 each to print.

I’m giving a #LIANZA2025 talk this afternoon about Wikisource, but only get ten minutes, so have been handing out this little zine/evangelical tract.

Change might happen slowly slowly slowly and then suddenly [snap]... Big change.

Who would have thought a game about recommending books to customers would be a big hit on Steam?

"The Present is Messy & Contradictory and the Future will be too"

#LIANZA2025 #Future #AI #Librarian

"By 2035, all bets are off. The jobs most disrupted will be the highest paid and skilled." - Melissa Clark-Reynolds. Keynote: Turning chaos into opportunities.

Gen Z might be doing jobs that we cannot even imagine. Get a good general education. Love the arts.

#LIANZA2025 #AI #Futurist

If I were playing #LIANZA2025 bingo, it would include "visionary PowerPoint diagram of arrows going in a circle".

Amy, with greying hair and splendid glasses, speaking at the LIANZA podium.

A fascinating talk yesterday at #LIANZA2025 by Amy Watling on Turnbull's oral history collections, 95% restricted—"my voice is on this little cassette, and there it will stay"—and how one can nevertheless organise remote access in a virtual reading room.

Follow Josh for good #LIANZA2025 content.

Framework agreement between Libraries and Archives Canada, the Library of Congress, NARA, NAA, NLA, Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga Archives New Zealand and Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa National Library of NZ concerning Cooperation in the Field of Archives and Libraries.

11 Sept 2024

#LIANZA2025

Te Rua, Archives New Zealand building is physically joined to Te Puna, National Library Building, via Te Hono, the link bridge.

#LIANZA2025