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Look to the future: the art of planning ahead

CILIP

Future Libraries is a project that was launched by CILIP earlier this year, in conjunction with Shared Intelligence. The aim was to help public -library services to look to the future and plan ahead – not always an easy task. Ben says: “Future Libraries is a project in two-parts. Supporting Professional Registration Ben Lee.

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Working internationally

CILIP

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.

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Tackling mutant daisies and fake Melanias

CILIP

During the process of researching and creating our own workshops on fake news and evaluating information, we came across initiatives from across the world and at many different institutions and organisations. The final workshop activity was an in-depth evaluation into a credible-seeming journal article. well-designed workshop.

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University of the Arts London selects Preservica for ambitious new digital preservation initiative

Preservica

The UAL Digital Archives & Collections Project is being delivered in collaboration between Library Services, IT Services and collection managers across the university and its six colleges. Preservica was selected by UAL after a full discovery and procurement exercise. www.arts.ac.uk. About Preservica.

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Pursuing Civic Literacy

Archives Blogs

Educators can participate in both on-site and online based activities; from two-week long summer institutes to all-day workshops on using primary sources in the classroom. Presidential Libraries. Kennedy Library: The Kennedy Library serves as the state coordinator for the National Student/Parent Mock Election for Massachusetts.

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Copyright: evolution or extinction?

CILIP

but for this exercise users equate to those who want access to copyright material for their own benefit. and provisions for libraries to make copies and preserve material. Graham P Cornish is a copyright specialist who has worked in the field since 1983 and advised the British Library on copyright matters for 18 years.

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Locking Down Your Website Scripts with CSP, Hashes, Nonces and Report URI

Troy Hunt

I run a workshop titled Hack Yourself First in which people usually responsible for building web apps get to try their hand at breaking them. As it turns out, breaking websites is a heap of fun (with the obvious caveats) and people really get into the exercises. Also, no script blocks. push(arguments) }, i[r].l Using Nonces.