With NZ now being forced to extend its copyright term, we have another shot at coming up with a way of centering creators and access, rather than multinational rightsholders. I spoke about some possibilities with Gwen Franck on the Walled Culture podcast: walledculture.podbean.com

Apart from everything - libraries have a role in countering misinformation and information literacy. #LIANZA2021 kōrero session Auckland Libraries Louise La Hatte will get us talking about libraries in the time of COVID at Tuesday's kōrero session 3, 2.20pm. Join us.

MP @jantinetti opening #LIANZA2021 understands the importance of libraries especially in a time when the divide between rich and poor – and between the technologically connected and those left out – is growing.

Hey Steve Braunias you could ask Chris Freeland, librarian 🏳️‍🌈 about why Internet Archive don't throw away books?

"To you blokes who’ve never read an ‘’actual’’ book..., treat your brain, discover our superpower & read at least one book that will reveal to you something you’ve never ever known. If you have a son, read it to him as well." Ben Brown stuff.co.nz/opinion/128339…

Vicky Sterling NPR It wasn't a helpful NPR article, not to anyone. Especially not to the Internet Archive. It was filled with misstatements, as was the Author's Guild response. I've condemned the current legal case, and the Internet Archive and I are on good terms. Next?

Absolutely stoked! 💓

a professor in Bristol isolated 50 “words” mushrooms use to communicate through a fiber, like a nerve cell, called hyphae, which also can connect to trees, and I am feeling very left out of the tree gossip now

We at Te Herenga Waka University Press want to extend our unconditional love and solidarity to essa may ranapiri and all takatāpui and nonbinary people. Poetry reviewer Nicholas Reid’s attack on essa is vile and unacceptable, and we won’t be sending him our books to review anymore.

I’ll be donating- can you?

(1/2) The top of this page of Te Petihana, the Māori language petition, is scorched and burnt. A note at the bottom says “Burning due to fire initiated by right-wing arsonist”. The note also tells us the page came from a bookshop at 236 Cuba Street, in Wellington.

Big in Finland 😲🤯🎉 thanks to Mikaela Nyman 💚💚💚

So proud of my cousin! Μπράβο Ella! 🎉💐💚

“On closing this little book, I want to read more literature from NZ and especially literature by Helen Heath.” Swedish lit critic Anna Remmets in Opulens on my essay about ⁦⁦Dr Helen Heath 🌈🔥🇳🇿🇬🇷📖💉⁩ & translated poems. Ellips imprint lilla e no 4 opulens.se/litteratur/poe…

Thanks to Michelle Elvy for interviewing Mikaela Mikaela Nyman and myself on Flash Frontier > flashfrontier.com/language-featu…

Me and razz next week. eventfinda.co.nz/2023/an-evenin…

I don't know anything about Pasifika hand tattoos - I always thought this type of hand tattoo was traditionally for women? theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…