The Public and Commercial Service union says library staff face “increased poverty and debt, with a concurrent rise in health ...

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In 2024, it is easy to imagine that all human knowledge is online forever – and can now be explained by an AI system; but this ignores the fact that an estimated 82% of websites are dormant, while ...

The British Library, which is the United Kingdom’s national library, is teaming with Microsoft to digitize 25 million pages of content next year. The plan is to digitize roughly 100,000 ...

Do you believe in magic? If not, “Harry Potter: A History of Magic,” the latest exhibition at the British Library in London, might very well make you a believer. Opened last month, the exhibition ...

The British Library has begun restoring its online services as it continues to recover from last year’s ransomware attack. Sir Roly Keating, Chief Executive at the institution, confirmed in a blog ...

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The British Library has confirmed that user data was exfiltrated and leaked by the ransomware cartel behind the October cyber attack on its systems, which remain offline weeks later, leaving the ...

Harold Pinter’s literary archive has been “saved for the nation,” the British Library announced yesterday. In a statement, the library said it had paid slightly more than $2.25-million for the ...

The British Library has told customers that their personal data may have been stolen during a recent ransomware attack that knocked the library’s systems and website offline for the past month. In a ...

The British Library, the famed repository of everything from Gutenberg Bibles to culturally significant napkin scribbles by the likes of Lennon and McCartney, has added e-mails and electronic data to ...