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Download Now: Making the Difference - an Excellence Framework for Prison Libraries

CILIP

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Download Now: Making the Difference - an Excellence Framework for Prison Libraries Making the Difference - an Excellence Framework for Prison Libraries supports prison library providers and prison library staff to develop, deliver and promote prison library services. Every prison library is different.

Libraries

Libraries Education Access IT

Librarian Sues Equifax Over 2017 Data Breach, Wins $600

Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2018

And now she’s celebrating a small but symbolic victory after a small claims court awarded her $600 in damages stemming from the 2017 breach. Vermont librarian Jessamyn West sued Equifax over its 2017 data breach and won $600 in small claims court. The 49-year-old librarian from a tiny town in Vermont took Equifax to court.

Data breaches

Data breaches Personal data Privacy Libraries

Risks to long-term access of digital government records is focus of new Preservica CoSA collaboration

Preservica

AUGUST 7, 2018

CoSA is the only professional organization exclusively serving the education, information and advocacy needs of state and territorial archives in the United States. The aim of the study is to increase collaboration and cooperation and implement coordinated approaches to state government records protection, preservation and secure access.

Digital preservation

Digital preservation Government Access Risk

Calculating the Benefits of the Advanced Encryption Standard

Schneier on Security

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Extending the approach of looking back from 2017 to the larger national economy required the selection of economic sectors best represented by the 169 survey respondents. Still, I like seeing this kind of analysis about security infrastructure. Thus, the NPV from today's perspective is $8,772,000,000; the B/C ratio is therefore 70.2/1;

Encryption

Encryption Agriculture Retail Manufacturing

Preservica proud to be supporting the Emmett Leahy Award

Preservica

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Past winners have included preeminent thought-leaders, educators and practitioners including Richard Marciano (2017), David Giaretta (2012), Charles Dollar (2005), Luciana Duranti (2006), and digital preservation pioneer and author Adrian Brown (2016), to name just a few.

Digital preservation

Digital preservation Archiving Libraries Government

First Museum Studies courses receive CILIP accreditation

CILIP

JULY 8, 2019

UCL was established in 1826 in order to open up education in England for the first time to students of any race, class or religion. UCL in partnership with Qatar Foundation has created UCL Qatar , a centre of excellence where students from Qatar and all over the world receive an education in cultural heritage of the highest quality.

Libraries

Libraries Archiving Data science Education

Film inside

CILIP

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Alarm bell upper corridor Education? Outside the library door we hear the thundering of a multitude of feet. ?Did Welcome to Brinsford Prison Library. Library engagement. Although I had no prison library experience I am an author with a passion for reading that has been nurtured inside me since childhood.

Libraries

Libraries Education IT Security

Unexpected Names

Archives Blogs

OCTOBER 16, 2017

She co-authored several publications on regional reptiles and snakes, and their archives (via the Bentley Historical Library Image Bank , which is a digital library like our own Amherst College Digital Collections site, ACDC ), has this 1918 photograph. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Image HS14930.

Libraries

Libraries Paper Archiving Education

Working internationally

CILIP

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

John Dolan and Ayub Khan have long shared an interest in the international library scene and how different countries and cultures can share and benefit from each other. Our involvement started when we answered a British Council advertisement, in October 2014, for help with reinstating libraries in Lahore and Karachi, Pakistan.

Libraries

Libraries e-Delivery Government Communications

Advocating for our profession

CILIP

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

As the Chartered body for library, information and knowledge workers, CILIP has an important responsibility to advocate for the value and impact of our profession locally, nationally across all four nations of the UK and internationally. CILIP is working hard to build a long-term network of influence to secure the interests of our profession.

Libraries

Libraries Government Education Risk

The development of sector apprenticeships

CILIP

JUNE 22, 2020

CILIP is working with the library and knowledge workforce to ensure there are more ways into the job, while maintaining standards. The recent CILIP Library, Information and Knowledge Management (LIKM) Professionalism Review provided a great opportunity to examine with the community how we develop skills in the workforce.

Archiving

Archiving Libraries Records Management Education

Chinese Cycldek APT targets Vietnamese Military and Government in sophisticated attacks

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2021

Since 2017, the group was observed launching attacks using RTF lure documents with political content related to Vietnam. The former collects environment information from the victim machine and sends it to DropBox, the latter runs code to evade detection by security products. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

Military

Military Government Phishing Libraries

Types of Malware & Best Malware Protection Practices

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Rogue security software. Architect a premium network security model like SASE that encompasses SD-WAN , CASB , secure web gateways , ZTNA , FWaaS , and microsegmentation. In 2017, more than 300,000 WordPress websites were affected by a malicious plugin that allowed an attacker to place embedded hidden links on victim websites.

Phishing

Phishing Ransomware Passwords Access

Colonial Pipeline Attack Shows Critical Infrastructure Vulnerabilities

eSecurity Planet

MAY 10, 2021

In a Monday morning tweet, ex-CISA Director Chris Krebs tweeted: Coming out of a ransomware wknd every CEO shld convene the senior leader team and review security (MFA is on, yeah?), ” Federal and security industry response. Enlisting technologies like CASB , IDPs , SIEM , and EDR for advanced security systems.

Ransomware

Ransomware Cybersecurity Education Government

The debate on the Data Protection Bill in the House of Lords

Data Protector

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It will ensure that libraries can continue to archive material, that journalists can continue to enjoy the freedoms that we cherish in this country, and that the criminal justice system can continue to keep us safe. How then will we secure adequacy without adhering to the charter? Where she finds criminality, she can prosecute.

GDPR

GDPR Personal data Government IT

CKG Longlist 2020

CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Walker Books receives 10 entries on the longlist while independent publisher, Book Island, secures its first listing. Independent publishers are strongly represented across the longlist, with Walker Books securing 10 entries, making them the publisher with the highest number of longlisted books. The winners will each receive ?500

Libraries

Libraries e-Discovery Paper Education

The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull bring the case for library funding to Parliament

CILIP

OCTOBER 14, 2019

The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull bring the case for library funding to Parliament. At a Parliamentary event at the House of Lords today, The Big Issue and Library Champion Bobby Seagull will join forces with CILIP, the UK library association, to make the case for long-term sustainable funding for libraries.

Libraries

Libraries Education Government Security

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