Issue 87: Ukraine War, Artificial Intelligence Art

Issue 87: Ukraine War, Artificial Intelligence Art

We are one week into Russia’s war against Ukraine.
From here in America, it is hard to understand the reality of a country whose citizens seemed to be going about normal lives just a short time ago.
I find it also hard to know what to say to people whose misery comes about on the whims of a dictator guided by…what?
A misguided notion of history?
A deep-seated desire to return to former glory?
A vain attempt to show how big his manhood is?
Who can tell?
Beyond asking my elected officials to
do something
and tweeting expressions of support, I’m feeling powerless to change what is happening.
I hope and pray for a return to sanity, for grace and mercy for those in conflict, and for a world that strives to find a greater, common good.
The threads this week:
One Library-related Corner of the Ukraine War
Archiving the Ukrainian Web
Artificial Intelligence Can’t Hold Copyright
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One Library-related Corner of the Ukraine War
Nicholas Poole tweet
Dear colleagues,
The sneaky, cruel and bloody aggression of the Russian Federation has prevented us from implementing our plans and holding March 1-4 XII International Scientific Conference «Modern Library-Information Continuous Education: what, how, for whom? «.
65 participants registered at the conference, re-calculated the registration fee of 35 members of the VGO Ukrainian Library Association total amount of 10 500 UAH.
The Organizing Committee of the Conference has decided to hold the Conference after our confident victory, and the contributions collected to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
We promise to provide complete and quality service to all participants in the peaceful time.
Glory to Ukraine!
For questions, please contact the Executive Office of the Association by email.
—Facebook-supplied translation of the
announcement of the postponing of a library conference
by the Ukrainian Library Association, 28-Feb-2022
Nicholas Poole, CEO of CILIP in the UK, has a poetic take on this announcement from the Ukraine Library Association.
Facebook’s automated translation from Ukrainian to English (quoted above) sounds a little dry; I’m left wondering how this reads in the original Ukrainian.
Archiving the Ukrainian Web
[Ian Milligan, associate professor of history at the University of Waterloo,] points out that in 50 years, historians will not only be curious about how people got their information and how it shaped their worldviews but also what kind of information archivists saved about this conflict.
—
Ukrainian Websites Are Going Dark. Archivists Are Trying To Save Them
, Motherboard on Vi…