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Connecting town and gown through the library

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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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Malicious developer distributed tainted version of Event-Stream NodeJS Module to steal Bitcoins

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Hacker compromised third-party NodeJS module “Event-Stream” introducing a malicious code aimed at stealing funds in Bitcoin wallet apps. The Event-Stream library is a very popular NodeJS module used to allow developers the management of data streams, it has nearly 2 million downloads a week. ” wrote Tarr.

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Celebrating innovation through CILIP?s new Changing Lives Seminar Series

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CILIP is excited to be launching our new Changing Lives Seminar Series, a programme of virtual events celebrating innovation and thought leadership in the library, knowledge and information sector. Schneider , Dean of the Library at Sonoma State University and a member of the American Library Association?s Future Leaders?

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Do libraries have a role at the cutting edge of tech ethics?

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Do libraries have a role at the cutting edge of tech ethics? Set up by tech entrepreneur Martha Lane Fox in 2015, Doteveryone has lobbied government for more regulation of big tech and lobbied big tech companies to act more responsibly towards their users. DO librarians have a role at the cutting edge of tech regulation?

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Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now

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Highly skilled and predominantly female - Workforce Mapping 2023 Survey results out now The libraries and information sector has a highly experienced and predominantly female workforce, with 40 per cent of staff having more than 20 years of work experience, according to data gathered for the Workforce Mapping 2023 survey.

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Creating connections through shared history

CILIP

About the Library. The 2nd Air Division USAAF Memorial Library is a unique organisation in the UK ? it is both a war memorial and a public library. One of our challenges is very simply explaining what we are to our British audience because the concept of a memorial library is so quintessentially American.

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Archive-It Partner News, April 2024

Archive-It

Registration and event details will be announced soon. Warchaeology The National Library of Norway released a software project on GitHub allowing users to validate and manipulate WARC files at the command line. We hope you can join us! Read more about what this will mean to the Community Webs program in this blog post.