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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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Missing the GDPR deadline of May 2018: And then what?

Data Protector

As May 2018 looms, I’m aware of a growing number of companies that are seeking help with their GDPR compliance obligations. Many (me included) have been sent a stream of emails from self-styled “GDPR experts” containing dire warnings of ginormous fines for non-compliance. But enough of these GDPR ambulance chasers.

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Libraries: don't mess with trust

CILIP

Libraries: don't mess with trust. Libraries: don't mess with trust. Jeni Tennison, CEO of the ODI discusses how libraries could fit into it without damaging themselves. Operational uses such as using data to support the day-to-day running of a library. where the libraries are for example. ?Most Jeni asks. ?Should

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One community, one vision for digital preservation: The Preservica Global User Group 2018

Preservica

The college, founded in 1246 and home to the oldest continuously functioning library for university academics and students in the world, was a fitting venue for over 100 delegates from 12 countries, who gathered for two days of presentations, workshops and discussion. The real highlight of this year’s gathering were the User Focus Groups.

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Career Challenge: starting in Health Care Librarianship

CILIP

Academic and public libraries were all I had really had exposure to, and I knew public libraries were (and still are) under heavy financial pressures, so academic seemed like the way to go. However, during my MA, I was exposed to lots of other different kinds of library work. becoming an academic librarian? blinkers on.

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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 1 – 7 January 2024

IT Governance

Source (New) Software Luxembourg Yes 3,600,000 National Automobile Dealers Association Source (New) Retail USA Yes 1,065,000 Consórcio Canopus Source (New) Professional services Brazil Yes 1,400,000 The Teaching Company (Wondrium by The Great Courses) Source (New) Education USA Yes 1.3 TB Gräbener Maschinentechnik GmbH & Co.

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Gartner Security & Risk Management Summit 2018 Trip Report

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

I was just reviewing last year’s trip report and thinking about how it was full of “IoT”, “Blockchain”, and of course “Digital Transformation”. I know you’re thinking, what about “GDPR”? An example they shared was timely, “the Inclusion of malware in organization code via malware injection in code library”. Back to basics.

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