Joshua TJ Ng 🐘@joshuatj@digipres.club 🐘
@joshuatj.bsky.social
Bluesky mostly for conference live musings.
Main musings on Mastodon at https://digipres.club/@joshuatj
There's also a brid.gy fed account here at @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
Banner picture: Kuala Lumpur (East), Malaysia
Main musings on Mastodon at https://digipres.club/@joshuatj
There's also a brid.gy fed account here at @joshuatj.digipres.club.ap.brid.gy
Banner picture: Kuala Lumpur (East), Malaysia
Thank you Mick Crouch, Master of Ceremony extraordinaire for #iPRES2025 Quick Fire 1. @dppig.bsky.social
November 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Thank you Mick Crouch, Master of Ceremony extraordinaire for #iPRES2025 Quick Fire 1. @dppig.bsky.social
Final #LIANZA2025 keynote.
Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.
Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.
September 24, 2025 at 4:32 AM
Final #LIANZA2025 keynote.
Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.
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.
Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.
September 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
Final #LIANZA2025 keynote.
Whiringa ki tāwhiti: Libraries leading a future of collective stewardship. Te Paea Paringatai, Ngāti Ranginui/Waikato/Ngāti Porou. IFLA President-elect.
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
#LIANZA2025
September 24, 2025 at 4:20 AM
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
#LIANZA2025
From Wikisource to public library - pipeline from scans to lendable books. Mike Dickison, Wikipedian @adzebill.bsky.social
#LIANZA2025 #Wikisource
#LIANZA2025 #Wikisource
September 24, 2025 at 3:11 AM
From Wikisource to public library - pipeline from scans to lendable books. Mike Dickison, Wikipedian @adzebill.bsky.social
#LIANZA2025 #Wikisource
#LIANZA2025 #Wikisource
Plug for online class - Vision: Imagining The Future
Register at imaginingthefuture.lilregie.com
darktimesacademy.co.nz
#LIANZA2025
Register at imaginingthefuture.lilregie.com
darktimesacademy.co.nz
#LIANZA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Plug for online class - Vision: Imagining The Future
Register at imaginingthefuture.lilregie.com
darktimesacademy.co.nz
#LIANZA2025
Register at imaginingthefuture.lilregie.com
darktimesacademy.co.nz
#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
#LIANZA2025
September 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Funding has pretty much dried out. Attacks in experts. Collapse of international cooperation. Work hasn't been happening the way it used to.
#LIANZA2025
#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
#LIANZA2025 #misinfo
September 24, 2025 at 12:13 AM
#LLM and #GenAI makes it easier to generate disinformation. Hallucinations could become misinformation. LLM could be "infected" with disinfo by state actors.
#LIANZA2025 #misinfo
#LIANZA2025 #misinfo
Countering misinformation & disinformation. Mandy Henk, Dark Times Academy.
Update 2025: Things are not great and the problem is worsening.
#LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation
Update 2025: Things are not great and the problem is worsening.
#LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation
September 24, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Countering misinformation & disinformation. Mandy Henk, Dark Times Academy.
Update 2025: Things are not great and the problem is worsening.
#LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation
Update 2025: Things are not great and the problem is worsening.
#LIANZA2025 #misinformation #disinformation
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 11:14 PM
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
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
Research results -> change made to Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Wikipedia article
#LIANZA2025 #librarian #trustedinformationsource
September 23, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Important to celebrate our work.
Research results -> change made to Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Wikipedia article
#LIANZA2025 #librarian #trustedinformationsource
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
Tentative conclusion: Tasmania/Australia ad the possible origin of the story. Changed to Wellington later.
See blog post for full story.
#LIANZA2025
September 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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
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
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
September 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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
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
Gen Z might be doing jobs that we cannot even imagine. Get a good general education. Love the arts.
#LIANZA2025 #AI #Futurist
September 23, 2025 at 9:51 PM
"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
Gen Z might be doing jobs that we cannot even imagine. Get a good general education. Love the arts.
#LIANZA2025 #AI #Futurist
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
11 Sept 2024
#LIANZA2025
September 23, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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
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
#LIANZA2025
September 23, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Te Rua, Archives New Zealand building is physically joined to Te Puna, National Library Building, via Te Hono, the link bridge.
#LIANZA2025
#LIANZA2025
Keynote: Stronger together: Connected national libraries - Rachel Esson, National Librarian NZ, and Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, Director-General National Libraries of Australia
#LIANZA2025
#LIANZA2025
September 23, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Keynote: Stronger together: Connected national libraries - Rachel Esson, National Librarian NZ, and Dr Marie-Louise Ayres, Director-General National Libraries of Australia
#LIANZA2025
#LIANZA2025
Libraries leading the AI future: empowering learning and AI Literacy. Sadia Afroze, PhD student at VuW.
Interviewed librarians. Taught ChatGPT to students to generate keywords for further database searches.
#LIANZA2025 #AI #UniversityLibrarians
Interviewed librarians. Taught ChatGPT to students to generate keywords for further database searches.
#LIANZA2025 #AI #UniversityLibrarians
September 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
Libraries leading the AI future: empowering learning and AI Literacy. Sadia Afroze, PhD student at VuW.
Interviewed librarians. Taught ChatGPT to students to generate keywords for further database searches.
#LIANZA2025 #AI #UniversityLibrarians
Interviewed librarians. Taught ChatGPT to students to generate keywords for further database searches.
#LIANZA2025 #AI #UniversityLibrarians
Kēmu: Building a board game collection - Grisham Langton, Wellington City Libraries.
Very successful. Launch with no advertising. 3 days on the shelves, lots of reserves means it's also in circulation.
#LIANZA2025 #library #notjustbooks #boardgames
Very successful. Launch with no advertising. 3 days on the shelves, lots of reserves means it's also in circulation.
#LIANZA2025 #library #notjustbooks #boardgames
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Kēmu: Building a board game collection - Grisham Langton, Wellington City Libraries.
Very successful. Launch with no advertising. 3 days on the shelves, lots of reserves means it's also in circulation.
#LIANZA2025 #library #notjustbooks #boardgames
Very successful. Launch with no advertising. 3 days on the shelves, lots of reserves means it's also in circulation.
#LIANZA2025 #library #notjustbooks #boardgames
Requester have access to a My virtual reading room dashboard. Access is time limited, with the possibility of self-service access extension twice.
Currently supports only a few formats.
Built on top of existing systems RefTracker, Rosetta (National Digital Heritage Archive, NDHA).
#LIANZA2025
Currently supports only a few formats.
Built on top of existing systems RefTracker, Rosetta (National Digital Heritage Archive, NDHA).
#LIANZA2025
September 22, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Requester have access to a My virtual reading room dashboard. Access is time limited, with the possibility of self-service access extension twice.
Currently supports only a few formats.
Built on top of existing systems RefTracker, Rosetta (National Digital Heritage Archive, NDHA).
#LIANZA2025
Currently supports only a few formats.
Built on top of existing systems RefTracker, Rosetta (National Digital Heritage Archive, NDHA).
#LIANZA2025
Oral history item record crawled by Google. People enter names of their family members and surprise to find a record. Wondered where's the play button. Wanted a copy. But 95% of oral history are access restricted.
"Ask a librarian" to request access via virtual reading room.
#LIANZA2025 #Access
"Ask a librarian" to request access via virtual reading room.
#LIANZA2025 #Access
September 22, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Oral history item record crawled by Google. People enter names of their family members and surprise to find a record. Wondered where's the play button. Wanted a copy. But 95% of oral history are access restricted.
"Ask a librarian" to request access via virtual reading room.
#LIANZA2025 #Access
"Ask a librarian" to request access via virtual reading room.
#LIANZA2025 #Access
NOW: Transforming access - The journey to our new virtual reading room. Amy Watling, Team Leader Research Services, National Library of New Zealand and Archives New Zealand.
#LIANZA2025 #librarian #virtualreadingroom
#LIANZA2025 #librarian #virtualreadingroom
September 22, 2025 at 11:10 PM
NOW: Transforming access - The journey to our new virtual reading room. Amy Watling, Team Leader Research Services, National Library of New Zealand and Archives New Zealand.
#LIANZA2025 #librarian #virtualreadingroom
#LIANZA2025 #librarian #virtualreadingroom
Generative AI - Ethical use of mātauranga.
Mātauranga Māori is taonga.
Highlights (mine):
1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee
2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori
3. Never use or generate tapu data
4. AI use must be acknowledged
#GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025
Mātauranga Māori is taonga.
Highlights (mine):
1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee
2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori
3. Never use or generate tapu data
4. AI use must be acknowledged
#GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025
September 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Generative AI - Ethical use of mātauranga.
Mātauranga Māori is taonga.
Highlights (mine):
1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee
2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori
3. Never use or generate tapu data
4. AI use must be acknowledged
#GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025
Mātauranga Māori is taonga.
Highlights (mine):
1. Check with Māori rep from ethics committee
2. Don't use prompt to generate mātauranga Māori
3. Never use or generate tapu data
4. AI use must be acknowledged
#GenAI #DataIsTaonga #LIANZA2025
NOW: Māori AI & Data Sovereignty - embedding values in tech. Keynote by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru.
According to #WAI262 and #TAI262 claimants, Artificial Intelligence is listed as one of the three catastrophises Māori face in 2024.
#AI #DataSovereignty
#LIANZA2025 #libraryconference #library
According to #WAI262 and #TAI262 claimants, Artificial Intelligence is listed as one of the three catastrophises Māori face in 2024.
#AI #DataSovereignty
#LIANZA2025 #libraryconference #library
September 22, 2025 at 9:50 PM
NOW: Māori AI & Data Sovereignty - embedding values in tech. Keynote by Dr Karaitiana Taiuru.
According to #WAI262 and #TAI262 claimants, Artificial Intelligence is listed as one of the three catastrophises Māori face in 2024.
#AI #DataSovereignty
#LIANZA2025 #libraryconference #library
According to #WAI262 and #TAI262 claimants, Artificial Intelligence is listed as one of the three catastrophises Māori face in 2024.
#AI #DataSovereignty
#LIANZA2025 #libraryconference #library