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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

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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Patch Tuesday, December 2019 Edition

Krebs on Security

By nearly all accounts, the chief bugaboo this month is CVE-2019-1458 , a vulnerability in a core Windows component (Win32k) that is present in Windows 7 through 10 and Windows Server 2008-2019. ’ An odd discrepancy on top of a CVE advisory for an outdated OS. It is very likely this is being exploited in the wild.”

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Learning from our Past: Celebrating Black History Month with Lancaster University Library

CILIP

Learning from our Past: Celebrating Black History Month with Lancaster University Library Slavery Banner in Lancaster Universit Library (to Sunita Abraham) Lancaster University Library takes the lead in decolonisation to reach staff and students of the university, with a diverse range of engaging, and enriching activites, initiatives, and projects.

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Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world

CILIP

Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world. Annual Libraries Week celebrations (7-12 October 2019) will showcase how libraries have transformed their digital offer, featuring events and activities in more than 1,000 libraries across the UK. 500 to donate to a library of your choice.

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Uncovering Vulnerabilities In Open Source Libraries (CVE-2019-13499)

ForAllSecure

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. Understanding the downstream users of a library can help prioritize fuzzing efforts. What Makes a Good Target? Who is Using This Target? A whole bunch !

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Uncovering Vulnerabilities In Open Source Libraries (CVE-2019-13499)

ForAllSecure

In this post, we will follow up on a prior article on using Mayhem to analyze stb and MATIO by reviewing three additional vulnerabilities found in another open source library. Understanding the downstream users of a library can help prioritize fuzzing efforts. What Makes a Good Target? Who is Using This Target? A whole bunch !

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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.