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

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 Challe...

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...

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

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

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