Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

The Rhysida ransomware group claimed responsibility for the recent cyberattack on the British Library that has caused a major IT outage. The Rhysida ransomware gang added the British Library to the list of victims on its Tor leak site. It is one of the largest libraries in the world. ” reads the announcement.

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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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Information Governance Perspectives

JANUARY 29, 2024

Library science is an interdisciplinary field incorporating the humanities, law, and applied science that studies topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information. What’s it like to work in this field?

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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

JANUARY 10, 2023

Libraries and sanctuary. John Vincent has been actively tackling social exclusion in libraries and other cultural and heritage organisations through The Network (www.seapn.org.uk) and the Libraries of Sanctuary project, that evolved from the Cities of Sanctuary.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Learning, work and flexibility: a case study As part of our look at CILIP accredited courses we talk to Oona Ylinen, a part-time LIS student at UCL and Academic Support Librarian at University of Essex. During one such study session in 2018, I saw a poster advertising a part-time role in the library.

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AIIM

MARCH 17, 2020

On this episode of the AIIM on Air Podcast , we take a look at this interesting case study. Click here to access our full library of episodes. The company's four largest European entities were still keying invoicing and credit memo data manually for all of their accounts payable processes. Want more episodes like this?

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Digital Leadership for Libraries empowering England’s public library workforce. CILIP has launched Digital Leadership for Libraries , five open-access, online learning modules created for public library workers, volunteers and apprentices. 16 November 2022. Digital Leadership.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Mastering RPG Games in Libraries For librarians or teachers who aren’t players themselves, the scope of role-playing games can seem overwhelming, especially because being a game master in a school or public library for a group of students is quite different to being a game master for adults with hours to spend.

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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

JUNE 13, 2023

Connecting town and gown through the library How to help a community explore its slave-trading history: Lesley English, Head of Library Engagement at Lancaster University Library, explains how the library plays a key role in building bridges between town and gown. We connect, we innovate, we include.”

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CILIP

MARCH 28, 2023

Action, Inspiration and Insight at Inaugural Green Libraries Conference Last week CILIP’s first Green Libraries Conference took place and showcased over a year of sustainable and attainable green projects and initiatives, at the Wellcome Collection in London.

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CILIP

JANUARY 19, 2023

How Libraries Can Support Those with Dementia Libraries are often considered the heart of the community, but not everyone understands just how much they have to offer. When it comes to dementia services, libraries have enormous potential to support people with dementia and their carers.

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Data Breach Today

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

BSI Study Finds Outdated Software, Vulnerable JavaScript Libraries An assessment of online shopping cart software used by e-commerce sites performed by the German cybersecurity agency found a slew of vulnerabilities, including code so old it's no longer supported as well as vulnerable JavaScript libraries.

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CILIP

AUGUST 8, 2023

The horizon scanning department for public libraries THE appetite for horizon scanning among public librarians is huge – as we have recently seen at the CILIP Conference – but the number of public librarians paid to do it is minimal. For me the next progression would have been outside of the library world. “For

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

Green Libraries Conference: agenda gaining momentum A CONFERENCE to highlight the role that libraries and their staff can play in the climate change agenda was one of the key goals set out by the Green Libraries Partnership when it was established last year. In her talk she will provide an update on this phase of activities.

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CILIP

JUNE 8, 2023

Nick Poole joins Parent Zone Podcast to discuss the future and past of public libraries In this 45 minute podcast, Nick Poole, CILIP CEO covers the evolution of public libraries and calls for new approaches from government in light of the digital and AI revolutions that are already transforming how we access and understand information.

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CILIP

MARCH 15, 2021

First Cultural Heritage Studies course receives CILIP accreditation. Head of the Department of Information Studies, Dr Anoush Simon commented ?We Cultural Heritage Studies: libraries, archive and museums? covering libraries and information services, archives, museums, and the wider heritage sector. The BA in ?Cultural

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CILIP

AUGUST 6, 2020

The British Library?s s International Library Leaders Programme. Ilene McKenna is the Lead Archivist, Archival Information System Renewal at Library and Archives Canada. In November 2019, she had the opportunity to take part in British Library?s s International Library Leaders programme. Background.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

New book highlights the importance of libraries to those seeking sanctuary in the UK. However, libraries can provide refuge and support for people in these situations, whether directing them to local groups or in-house help.

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CILIP

APRIL 2, 2023

Beth Montague-Hellen, the new Head of Library and Information Services at the Francis Crick Institute, asks how big changes like this can be achieved without the help of a crisis. The latest book from Facet looks at how tabletop roleplaying games can be incorporated into school libraries.

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CILIP

JULY 30, 2020

Role of Library and Knowledge Specialists in Moving Education and Training Online. This is a statement by the Information Literacy Group, a special interest group of the CILIP, the library and information association. You can find further information on the Information Literacy Group website. Published: 31 July 2020.

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Preservica

DECEMBER 7, 2022

They were discoverable in our library catalog Ex Libris Primo but would potentially be behind a paywall depending on who the viewer was. Our library catalog is open access and is available online to see in action. These were originally hardcopy, when submitted, and date back to 1898.

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Unwritten Record

APRIL 14, 2020

National Bookmobile Day is April 22, part of National Library Week (April 19-25). . A library is a place that stores information, a place where people from all walks of life have the opportunity to obtain textual and audiovisual material for education, entertainment, and enlightenment. Libraries, Mobile — Third Army La.

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CILIP

JANUARY 28, 2020

Arup Library: 60 years. Arup Library: 60 years. Key projects include the Sydney Opera House, the Pompidou Centre and the British Library. The first library in the firm?s What follows is a brief overview of 60 years of the Arup Library in London. Early Arup Library. It mentions that ?people

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

What are libraries worth? What are libraries worth? Suffolk Libraries has recently commissioned and published research to do just that: convert the social value of three of its core services into pounds and pence. Bruce Leeke, chief executive of Suffolk Libraries said: ?Talking 1 spent on three of Suffolk Libraries?

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CILIP

MARCH 8, 2021

Feminist leadership, libraries and Covid-19. s Library which was established in 1991 and now has more than 20 paid staff ? s was Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library. I have been a lifelong library lover, but have no formal training as an information professional. s Library were sown.? Adele said:

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CILIP

JANUARY 14, 2020

Overdrive founder and CEO, Steve Potash makes the case for Public Libraries. Steve Potash, Lord John Bird, Bobby Seagull, Johanna Brinton Abela and Erica Lazzaro at the launch of Public Libraries: The Case for Support. Overdrive founder and CEO, Steve Potash, makes the case for Public Libraries. 1 invested in public libraries.

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CILIP

JULY 31, 2019

New book on improving library services with assessment data. Facet Publishing announces the publication of Putting Library Assessment Data to Work by Selena Killick and Frankie Wilson. Effective library assessment is crucial for a successful academic library. Selena Killick and Frankie Wilson said: ?Effective

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Apprenticeships: supporting new talent in to libraries. Last summer Kirklees Libraries recruited two new apprentices as part of a council-wide programme to develop and deliver apprentice opportunities. Among the vanguard of library apprenticeships schemes is Kirklees Libraries in West Yorkshire. Career opportunities.

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Archives Blogs

MAY 22, 2020

The history of libraries at Florida State University traces back almost 100 years to the 1920s. In 1923, FSU’s first library opened in what is now Dodd Hall. Dodd Hall served as the library for Florida State College for Women and then for Florida State University until Strozier Library was built in 1956.

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CILIP

JANUARY 27, 2020

Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately Dominic Cummings: Libraries are ?desperately DURING the 2019 General Election Boris Johnson said he loved libraries and wanted to invest in opening more of them, but added: ?We His special adviser, Dominic Cummings, has no such conditions attached to his support for libraries.

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CILIP

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

Recently I heard a librarian say that introducing makerspaces into libraries was one of the riskiest undertakings the service had ever embarked upon. I found this a little odd, since we are all in the information business and a lot of library time is taken up with answering ?how s library buildings are a mixture of ancient and modern.

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

How to write effective travel and study grant proposals. As part of the project, CILIP is making a number of grants and awards available to individual members to enable them to travel and study. As part of the project, CILIP is making a number of grants and awards available to individual members to enable them to travel and study.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Turning over new leaves: Can outdoor spaces help libraries grow? Turning over new leaves: Can outdoor spaces help libraries grow? ?IF IF you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need,? If you have a garden in your library, everything will be complete!? their library. The Sir Alex Ferguson Library?s

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