CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Protect funding for public libraries at risk In this election year it is more important than ever to bring libraries into the public and political spotlight as central government cuts council budgets across the country. The Libraries at Risk Monitor builds on the Know your Rights campaign, which has been running since 2023.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

New Partner in Green Libraries Campaign: NHS Knowledge and Library Services Community of Practice There are more than 500 libraries within NHS England, an organisation that is committed to net zero by 2040. Green Libraries Campaign Find out more about the Green Libraries Campaign and how your library can get involved!

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CILIP

MARCH 1, 2024

Libraries in 19 councils at risk of ‘fire sale’ with new Exceptional Financial Support Framework Image of birmingham library via wikimedia commons CILIP is sounding the alarm over a potential 'fire sale' of library buildings following the Government announcement of 'exceptional financial support' to 19 Councils.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Will ‘Project Hope’ protect public libraries? Parliament is not yet sitting (at time of writing), but we already know that 2024 promises to be a year of change as the country moves into a General Election footing. Some councils have opted to replace professional library staff with volunteer or community-run services.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Google Chrome and Perl library flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The root cause of the problem is a weakness in the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel third-party library. This library is used by the Amavis virus scanner that runs on Barracuda ESG appliances.

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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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CILIP

JUNE 23, 2023

Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) 23rd June 2023 Published: 14 June 2023 More from Information Professional News In depth Interview Insight This reporting is funded by CILIP members.

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CILIP

MARCH 20, 2024

Call for case studies: Libraries - Building the future economy Building the future economy We are working with an external agency to strengthen our advocacy activity during 2024, to engage with decision makers at the highest level. Contact Keith now.

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CILIP

JANUARY 16, 2024

CILIP welcomes publication of Sanderson Review of Public Libraries CILIP has welcomed the publication of the findings of Baroness Sanderson of Welton’s Independent Review of Public Libraries, announced today at an event at the House of Lords attended by our CEO, Nick Poole.

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CILIP

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Invitation to Tender - Anti-Racist Library Collections training for Wales Content Developers needed for the Anti-Racist Library Collections project. There is scope to develop one, two or three anti-racist library collection modules that will form a program of training for public libraries across Wales.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Urgent appeal: protect funding for public libraries at risk CILIP is the leading industry voice championing and representing library and information professionals across the United Kingdom, guided by our Royal Charter to develop and improve library and information services, and as a Charity to act in the public good.

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The Schedule

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Records Management Annual Section Meeting, July 2024! Jessika Drmacich, Chair, former 2021 Chair: Jessika, Records Manager and Digital Resources Archivist at Williams College Special Collections (Libraries), leads Williams’ campus-wide Records Management Program, web archiving, and digital preservation.

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CILIP

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Future Libraries Video: What is futures literacy? In this introductory video from the Future Libraries Toolkit , Ben Lee from Shared Intelligence lays down the basics of Futures Literacy, how it works, what it is, and how it can benefit your thinking, workforce, and library.

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CILIP

JANUARY 23, 2024

Sanderson Report Shows that libraries are part of something bigger UK media, leading writers, including two former Children's Laureates, and library advocates including CILIP CEO, Nick Poole came out in force to defend public and school libraries in response to Baroness Sanderson’s Review of Libraries.

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CILIP

JANUARY 5, 2024

Annual Buyer's Guide 2024t Find out what buyers and providers are saying about technology, ethics, careers, start-ups, pop-up banks and more CILIP’s Annual Buyers’ Guide Directory 2024, which will be delivered with your January/February issue of Information Professional. Find out more about CILIP’s Supplier Partners and how they can help you.

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Archive-It

MARCH 21, 2024

Empowering GLAM Institutions: The Launch of Digital Library Accessibility Policy and Practice Guidelines – The DLF Digital Accessibility Working Group publishes best practices for galleries, libraries, archives, and museums, fostering accessibility through policies and workflows.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Red Hat warns of a backdoor in XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development and experimental versions. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. rpm and xz-libs-5.6.0-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

On December 24, when Barracuda released the security notice, there was no remediation or patch available for CVE-2023-7101 , the Spreadsheet::ParseExcel vulnerability, within the open-source library. The technique that threat actors can use is Dynamic Link Library (DLL) search order hijacking. 1020000 1.26.10-gke.1235000 1235000 1.27.7-gke.1293000

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CILIP

DECEMBER 14, 2022

£135,000 funding for Anti-racist library collections in Wales. The investment will fund a new project – Anti-racist Library Collections: a training plan for public libraries in Wales with the purpose of raising the profile of libraries. Phase 3 - April-September 2024. 14 December 2022. Commission training content.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 15, 2024

April 8, 2024 Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in LG WebOS Smart TVs Type of vulnerability: Authorization bypass, privilege escalation, command injection. The fix: LG issued security upgrades on March 22, 2024, which addressed the vulnerabilities. Check out our article on SaaS security checklist and learn how to create one.

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CILIP

APRIL 15, 2024

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Gary Horrocks THE summer 2023 issue of UKeiG’s open access journal, eLucidate , featured my reflections on the implications of a Members’ Day presentation by Ken Chad on the “library technology ecosystem". Are the LMS we know and love dead in the water? Who pays for the ecosystem?

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Archive-It

APRIL 17, 2024

by the Archive-It team Community News Save the Date for 2024 Partner Meeting Archive-It’s annual Partner Meeting returns in person on Wednesday, August 14, 2024 for a half day in Chicago, just ahead of the 2024 ARCHIVES*RECORDS Society of American Archivists (SAA) conference. We hope you can join us!

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CILIP

APRIL 8, 2024

CILIP Appoints Louis Coiffait-Gunn as new CEO The CILIP Board has appointed Louis Coiffait-Gunn as the charity's new CEO, and Louis will be starting in the new role on Wednesday 8th May 2024. Louis was introduced to public libraries at a young age as his grandmother was a librarian in a neighbouring village.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

March 22, 2024 Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Server Security Updates Type of vulnerability (or attack): Memory leak. or above March 25, 2024 Hackers Pollute Python Package Index Open-Source Libraries Type of vulnerability (or attack): Malicious library code. The fix: Update affected versions ASAP: FortiClient EMS 7.2:

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

December 14, 2023: Vendor requests extension March 22, 2024: Patch release April 09, 2024: Public release of this report Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, smart TVs) running on LG43UM7000PLA webOS 5.5.0 – 04.50.51

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IT Governance

JANUARY 9, 2024

109 banks must undertake vulnerability assessments and evaluate their incident response measures by mid-2024. Key dates 10 January 2024 – ICO consultation on AI guidance and toolkits closes An Information Commissioner’s Office consultation on the AI guidance and toolkits available to organisations closes on 10 January.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2024

January 3, 2024 52% of Exposed SSH Servers Vulnerable to Terrapin Attack Type of attack: Secure Shell (SSH) vulnerability enables prefix truncation attacks. and older of the Perl Spreadsheet::ParseExcel library ( CVE-2023-7101 ) contain a RCE vulnerability exploited by Chinese hackers, as noted on December 24th. Versions 0.65

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2024

Cisco released security patches to address two high-severity vulnerabilities in Secure Client respectively tracked as CVE-2024-20337 and CVE-2024-20338. The vulnerability CVE-2024-20337 (CVSS score 8.2) resides in the ISE Posture (System Scan) module of Cisco Secure Client for Linux. ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 11, 2024

ai have published technical details and a proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit for the critical security flaw CVE-2024-1403 in Progress Software OpenEdge Authentication Gateway and AdminServer. ” The vulnerability CVE-2024-1403 (CVSS score 10) is an authentication bypass issue that impacts OpenEdge versions 11.7.18

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CILIP

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Nick Poole to step down as CEO of CILIP CILIP has announced that Nick Poole is to step down as CEO from the end of March 2024, after eight years of transformative leadership through which CILIP has become firmly established as the leading voice for the UK’s library, information and knowledge management profession.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

January 29, 2024 Juniper Releases Updates for Critical RCE Vulnerabilities Type of vulnerability: Missing authentication flaw and cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability. The fix: Juniper Networks has published out-of-cycle fixes for CVE-2024-21619 and CVE-2024-21620 — apply fixes to the identified versions.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

In January 2024, it identified more potential victims, and has now written to inform them that their personal data may have been compromised in the incident. Recent victims of Rhysida include the British Library and Sony’s Insomniac Games. Key dates 31 March 2024 – PCI DSS v4.0 It is available on the KISA website.

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CILIP

APRIL 26, 2024

CILIP Copyright COnference 2024 By Maureen Pinder, Faculty Librarian, J. Priestley Library, University of Bradford. ¬¬ Professional Registration Support Officers (PRSO) play a vital role in helping CILIP members navigate their way to Certification, Chartership and Fellowship. I now support pharmacy, for my sins! for more information.

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CILIP

APRIL 20, 2020

online resources for leadership in libraries launched. Over the past few weeks, those working in our public libraries have demonstrated their expertise, creativity, and commitment to serving their communities. At this particular moment, it is critical that there is support for public library staff at every level. s platform.?

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CILIP

MARCH 5, 2024

CILIP Pathways provides quality assessment services for apprenticeships, and is staffed by experts in the library, information and knowledge sector and has a team of qualified independent assessors. I also liked learning alongside apprentices from other libraries, as I got to learn a lot about libraries different to my own.

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