CILIP

MARCH 6, 2024

CILIP has previously signalled deep concern over the lack of financial support to Local Authorities and the fact that the recently announced ‘Exceptional Financial Support’ (EFS) package will prompt a ‘fire sale’ of vital assets, including public libraries, in the 19 Councils concerned.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2024

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for May 2024 fixed 59 flaws across various products including an actively exploited zero-day. CVE-2024-30051 – Windows DWM Core Library Elevation of Privilege Vulnerability An attacker can exploit this vulnerability to gain SYSTEM privileges. ” reads the advisory.

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CILIP

MAY 28, 2024

Libraries Change Lives – Join the campaign in the build up to the general election This summer, a change of government will take place, and potentially hundreds of new MPs will join the House of Commons for the first time. If you haven’t already taken part, please add you own service and share your success stories by 24 June 2024.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

New Future Libraries project to support resilience and strategic growth in Public Libraries Future Libraries is a two-part initiative from CILIP to challenge and engage librarians and library leaders to reimagine libraries in a world of evolving living and working patterns in the context of a rapidly changing world.

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CILIP

MARCH 18, 2024

Libraries at Risk: Update CILIP has written to eight councils in the Libraries at Risk Campaign, launched the #DearChancellor campaign on social media, and written a formal letter to Lord Parkinson to initiate dialogue on the future of libraries. View all the #DearChancellor tweets on X (formerly Twitter).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The vulnerability was tracked as CVE-2024-3094 and received a CVSS score of 10.

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Enterprise Software Blog

MAY 21, 2024

As we are almost halfway through 2024, the battle between Angular vs. React continues to shake and excite the developers’ community. Quick article topics: Ease of use and customization Learning curve and development expectations Library vs toolset State management and performance Angular and React use cases Angular or React - which is better?

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Protect funding for public libraries at risk In this election year it is more important than ever to bring libraries into the public and political spotlight as central government cuts council budgets across the country. The Libraries at Risk Monitor builds on the Know your Rights campaign, which has been running since 2023.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

New Partner in Green Libraries Campaign: NHS Knowledge and Library Services Community of Practice There are more than 500 libraries within NHS England, an organisation that is committed to net zero by 2040. Green Libraries Campaign Find out more about the Green Libraries Campaign and how your library can get involved!

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Will ‘Project Hope’ protect public libraries? Parliament is not yet sitting (at time of writing), but we already know that 2024 promises to be a year of change as the country moves into a General Election footing. Some councils have opted to replace professional library staff with volunteer or community-run services.

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CILIP

MARCH 1, 2024

Libraries in 19 councils at risk of ‘fire sale’ with new Exceptional Financial Support Framework Image of birmingham library via wikimedia commons CILIP is sounding the alarm over a potential 'fire sale' of library buildings following the Government announcement of 'exceptional financial support' to 19 Councils.

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CILIP

JUNE 23, 2023

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) 23rd June 2023 Published: 14 June 2023 More from Information Professional News In depth Interview Insight This reporting is funded by CILIP members.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 2, 2024

Most organizations express confidence in their current status and budgets, but also expect to experience at least one data breach in 2024. and software libraries to attack the supply chain. 30% data breaches and +23% ransomware for the first two months of 2024. globally, +19.8% US for data breaches for 2023. +30%

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CILIP

MARCH 4, 2024

Decision-makers and sector leaders from CILIP’s Employer and Learning Partners met last Wednesday at the Hive Library in Worcester for a hybrid in-person and online programme that focussed on getting a head start on AI policy. The day was made possible with sponsorship from CB Resourcing and WF Education. Read more about the workshop.

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CILIP

MARCH 20, 2024

CILIP to launch Libraries Change Lives Advocacy Week this summer This summer will you join us to tell the stories of how Libraries Change Lives? We are inviting libraries across the UK to join us to share your successes during our brand new Libraries Change Lives Week.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chrome and Perl library flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The root cause of the problem is a weakness in the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel third-party library. This library is used by the Amavis virus scanner that runs on Barracuda ESG appliances.

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CILIP

MARCH 20, 2024

Call for case studies: Libraries - Building the future economy Building the future economy We are working with an external agency to strengthen our advocacy activity during 2024, to engage with decision makers at the highest level. Contact Keith now.

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CILIP

JANUARY 16, 2024

CILIP welcomes publication of Sanderson Review of Public Libraries CILIP has welcomed the publication of the findings of Baroness Sanderson of Welton’s Independent Review of Public Libraries, announced today at an event at the House of Lords attended by our CEO, Nick Poole.

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Archive-It

MAY 23, 2024

Aerial photo of the Harold Washington Library Center, Chicago Public Library Archive-It partners and friends are invited to join this year’s partner meeting on Wednesday, August 14th , to coincide with the Society of American Archivists’ ARCHIVES * RECORDS 2024 meeting in Chicago.

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eSecurity Planet

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Various forms of AI, such as machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLM), already dominated headlines throughout 2023 and will continue to present both overhyped possibilities and realized potential in 2024. In 2024, AI poisoning attacks will become the new software supply chain attacks.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Invitation to Tender - Anti-Racist Library Collections training for Wales Content Developers needed for the Anti-Racist Library Collections project. There is scope to develop one, two or three anti-racist library collection modules that will form a program of training for public libraries across Wales.

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Security Affairs

MAY 14, 2024

Google has released emergency security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-4761, in the Chrome browser. “CVE-2024-4761: Out of bounds write in V8. Reported by Anonymous on 2024-05-09″ reads the advisory. 208 for Mac/Windows and 124.0.6367.207 for Linux. .

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk CILIP is the leading industry voice championing and representing library and information professionals across the United Kingdom, guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services, and as a Charity to act in the public good.

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The Schedule

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Records Management Annual Section Meeting, July 2024! Jessika Drmacich, Chair, former 2021 Chair: Jessika, Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist at Williams College Special Collections (Libraries), leads Williams’ campus-wide Records Management Program, web archiving, and digital preservation.

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CILIP

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sanderson Report Shows that libraries are part of something bigger UK media, leading writers, including two former Children's Laureates, and library advocates including CILIP CEO, Nick Poole came out in force to defend public and school libraries in response to Baroness Sanderson’s Review of Libraries.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Future Libraries Video: What is futures literacy? In this introductory video from the Future Libraries Toolkit , Ben Lee from Shared Intelligence lays down the basics of Futures Literacy, how it works, what it is, and how it can benefit your thinking, workforce, and library.

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Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2024

Google has released a new emergency security update to address a new vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5274, in the Chrome browser, it is the eighth zero-day exploited in attacks disclosed this year. “Google is aware that an exploit for CVE-2024-5274 exists in the wild.” “Type Confusion in V8.

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OpenText Information Management

MAY 30, 2024

Key features include: Entity Extraction and NLP: Extract critical information with advanced grammar libraries. The post OpenText Named a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Document Mining and Analytics Platforms, Q2 2024 appeared first on OpenText Blogs. AI Sentiment Analysis: Real-time sentiment analysis across platforms.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

On December 24, when Barracuda released the security notice, there was no remediation or patch available for CVE-2023-7101 , the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel vulnerability, within the open-source library. The technique that threat actors can use is Dynamic Link Library (DLL) search order hijacking. 1020000 1.26.10-gke.1235000 1235000 1.27.7-gke.1293000

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Annual Buyer's Guide 2024t Find out what buyers and providers are saying about technology, ethics, careers, start-ups, pop-up banks and more CILIP’s Annual Buyers’ Guide Directory 2024, which will be delivered with your January/February issue of Information Professional. Find out more about CILIP’s Supplier Partners and how they can help you.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Library buyers’ role in tech start-ups Frode Opdahl, CEO of Keenious explains the origins of an AI-driven start-up and how its success depends on library buyers keeping the sector attractive to start-ups that wish to innovate the research experience. It was later that we saw it as a tool for libraries.”

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CILIP

DECEMBER 14, 2022

£135,000 funding for Anti-racist library collections in Wales. The investment will fund a new project – Anti-racist Library Collections: a training plan for public libraries in Wales with the purpose of raising the profile of libraries. Phase 3 - April-September 2024. 14 December 2022. Commission training content.

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Archive-It

MARCH 21, 2024

Empowering GLAM Institutions: The Launch of Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines – The DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group publishes best practices for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, fostering accessibility through policies and workflows.

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IT Governance

APRIL 22, 2024

Protect AI releases April 2024 vulnerability report Protect AI has published its latest monthly report into security vulnerabilities affecting AI systems. 30 April 2024 – ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certification unavailable Certification bodies must stop offering (re)certification to ISO 27001:2013 by 30 April.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Red Hat warns of a backdoor in XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development and experimental versions. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. rpm and xz-libs-5.6.0-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

April 8, 2024 Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in LG WebOS Smart TVs Type of vulnerability: Authorization bypass, privilege escalation, command injection. The fix: LG issued security upgrades on March 22, 2024, which addressed the vulnerabilities. Check out our article on SaaS security checklist and learn how to create one.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

March 22, 2024 Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Server Security Updates Type of vulnerability (or attack): Memory leak. or above March 25, 2024 Hackers Pollute Python Package Index Open-Source Libraries Type of vulnerability (or attack): Malicious library code. The fix: Update affected versions ASAP: FortiClient EMS 7.2:

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