More on #SGDs from IFLA: EU's #libraries are a huge asset, ready & able to deliver equity, democracy, innovation, preservation, development. Manifesto sets out how next European Parliament can help make this happen #InternetLibrarian #CILDC
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'Free people read freely: an ideal that America is fortunate our librarians uphold.'
— Kerry Graham in the @baltimorebanner
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#UniteAgainstBookBans
#FreePeopleReadFreely

Publishing profits are better than they were 10 years ago, all the time that Internet Archive has been doing its thing—loaning the books it owns.

And yet Big Publishing is pouring money into suing the Archive, saying that they’ve been economically devastated?

We don’t see it.

But tomorrow, Internet Archive is replying to legal arguments that libraries scanning and loaning the books they own amounts to the impact of Napster on the music industry in the ‘00s, but for publishing revenue.

…does it now?

Tomorrow, @InternetArchive will file their reply brief in the suit from major publishers to end the right of IA and all libraries to own and preserve spyware-free digital books.

Reading what they’re replying to, we’ve gotta ask:

Who is the real 'Napster' here?

A thread.

The new #CulturalHeritage blog post gives an intro to the beginnings of National Folklore Collection UCD Audio Archive.
Learn about great collectors, their methods & determination to collect Irish folklore & listen to earliest samples of recorded Irish traditional music.
ucdculturalheritagecollections.com/2024/04/22/the…

Gary Marcus AI practitioners know LLMs have that inherent limitation, or we wouldn't have vector DB makers and llama-index and LangChain tool makers giving us RAG (retrieval augmented generation) and other solutions to address it.

The IFLA Summit programme is now ready. Check associated events, too. LARK Symposium 2024 is listed there. 30 Sep-4 Oct in Brisbane will be a fantastic week of learning and networking #IIFS2024 #LARK2024
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Join 28,000+ to show your support for the Internet Archive, libraries’ digital rights, and an open internet with safe, uncensored access to knowledge. - battleforlibraries.com 'Big publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ ownership and control of digital books.' #copyright

Internet Archive's founder & digital librarian, Brewster Kahle, reflects on last week's move by the island nation of Aruba to endorse digital rights for memory institutions. Why is it so important for libraries to own, not lease, their collections? 👉 blog.archive.org/2024/04/18/aru…

Excited to host the Australian Creative Cities Annual meeting today & tomorrow.

We are welcoming Adelaide City of Music, Bendigo & Launceston Cities of Gastronomy, Ballarat City of Craft and Folk Art, Geelong City of Design, & our new besties Hobart City of Literature

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I'm at #Quality2024 live, listening to Amy Edmondson talking about principles from her book “The Right Kind of Wrong – The Science of Failing Well”. Amy differentiates three kinds of failures in organisations:
1) Basic failures: caused by carelessness or ignorance
2) Complex

A remarkable discovery overturns the long-held belief that early Australians did not produce ceramics or have the maritime technology to undertake long sea voyages. newscientist.com/article/242609…

Independent Māori owned Huia Publishers awarded the prestigious 2024 Bologna Prize for the Best Children’s Publisher of the Year teaonews.co.nz/2024/04/13/hui…

Information literacy and society – MILA report. MILA has published a report on how information literacy (IL) impacts society. #libraries #society #informationliteracy mila.org.uk/information-li…

Cast members from the CBS comedy “Ghosts” -- Asher Grodman, Danielle Pinnock, Richie Moriarty, Rebecca Wisocky & Román Zaragoza -- visited the library yesterday for a special tour of collections related to the history of each character they play in the series. Ghosts 🧵

Two years ago we launched #BooksUnbanned as a response to an increasingly coordinated effort to remove books tackling a wide range of topics from library shelves. Learn how you can protect everyone's #RighttoRead today & every day at bklynlibrary.org/books-unbanned #NationalLibraryWeek

““Making a regular trip to your local library is a great way to insert vorfreude into your life” theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…

LARK's biennial symposium 2024 is about Australian and international connections. Join us in Brisbane at this event associated with IFLA Summit. Call for papers for #LARK2024 is now open.
#IIFS
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