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Libraries and sanctuary

CILIP

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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Mobile Libraries: Culture on the Go

Unwritten Record

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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Data, analysis and the library: Joining the dots at the Department for Work and Pensions

CILIP

Here he speaks to Information Professional Editor Rob Green about how librarians and library services are now a central part of that function, and how the library service is supporting the wider needs of the Department. including leading the analysis for the Pensions Commission, Chaired by Adair Turner and which reported in 2005.

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Critical bug in WINRAR affects all versions released in the last 19 years

Security Affairs

The flaw is an “Absolute Path Traversal” issue in the library that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code by using a specially-crafted file archive. The issue affects a third-party library, called UNACEV2.DLL The flaw resides in the way an old third-party library, called UNACEV2.DLL, dll library in 2005.

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access

CILIP

Maintaining the status quo for public libraries ? Here he speaks to Rob Mackinlay about why not challenging the methods used by publishers to protect their content will damage not only libraries, but also threatens research and innovation. ?Publishers He sees licensing as an existential threat to libraries, saying: ?I?m

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MY TAKE: Log4j’s big lesson – legacy tools, new tech are both needed to secure modern networks

The Last Watchdog

Log4j, for instance, is a ubiquitous logging library. How a given open-source library works in a specific app can be a mystery because arbitrary parties contributed pieces of coding that may or may not have been documented,” he says. Log4j bathes light on a couple of solidifying developments.

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Efficient QR codes

Imperial Violet

The 2005 edition changed that to be ISO/IEC 8859-1 (i.e. If you have a bigint library to hand then it almost certainly has the functions for that, but it's a rather obnoxious (and quadratic) amount of computation and a significant dependency. The most basic segment type is byte mode , which is a series of 8-bit bytes.

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