The Seattle Public Library expects to spend about $1 million responding to a May ransomware attack by the end of 2024 and is still investigating what, if any, personal data hackers stole.
Seattle Public Library to spend $1M on response to ransomware attack
“We know that data has left the library,” Gannon said. “We do not have any even early indication about the extent of personal information that may have been compromised.”
Audio Overview is a fun new feature of Google%u2019s NotebookLM which is getting a lot of attention right now. It generates a one-off custom podcast against content you provide, where two AI hosts start up a %u201Cdeep dive%u201D discussion about the collected content. These last around ten minutes and are very podcast, with an astonishingly convincing audio back-and-forth conversation.
NotebookLM’s automatically generated podcasts are surprisingly effective
How a librarian goes viralWhile libraries might be stereotyped by some as boring or outdated, they%u2019ve become popular digital destinations for young viewers on TikTok. Miller told CNN that 84% of her viewers are 18 to 34 years old.
The fact is that the health of the nation%u2019s libraries is a national security issue. We learned this lesson once, and profoundly, during World War II. The story of how underinvesting in our libraries almost lost us the war is worth retelling%u2014especially because what we%u2019re losing by cutting back on acquisitions%u2014or, worse, digitizing and then throwing out archives%u2014is exactly what we had to send spies to acquire overseas during that war.
How book-banning campaigns have changed the lives and education of librarians
The current threats to librarians and the books they circulate are necessitating a shift in the content of graduate library education. Librarians obviously need to know the content of books. But educators like me now know we need to provide graduate students with information about how to physically and legally protect themselves and their organizations.
A Library That Holds Its Own Among Museums
The Qatar National is not just a model for celebrity-designed library buildings. It also underscores the links between books and manuscripts and the country’s cultural heritage.
It has folders marked ‘Grasping the victim’s head’ and now – after a £15m revamp and some help from Albert Einstein and the patron saint of the internet – the extraordinary Warburg Institute is letting passersby in to view its ‘books emanating sorcery’
Occult? Try upstairs! Inside the world’s weirdest library, now open to the public
A mysterious cosmic emblem hangs over the entrance to a building in Bloomsbury, at the heart of London’s university quarter. Depicting concentric circles bound by intertwined arcs, it represents the four elements, seasons and temperaments, as mapped out by Isidore of Seville, a sixth-century bishop and scholar of the ancient world, as well as patron saint of the internet. What lies within is not a masonic lodge, though, or the HQ of the Magic Circle, but the home of one of most important and unusual collections of visual, scientific and occult material in the world. Long off-limits to passersby, the Warburg Institute has now been reborn, after a £14.5m transformation, with a mission to be more public than ever.
Statewide Internet Outage at Delaware Libraries Caused by Hackers
Delaware`s three dozen libraries, which provide free internet and computer services to residents, were targeted by hackers on Friday, disrupting access to all computers and the internet.
In today’s digital age, technology plays a vital role in library services. Lea Roselle, the Milford Public Library Director, emphasized the significance of technology.
“The technology is what makes our whole business run—I mean, we are an information technology center.”
US public schools banned 10,000 books in most recent academic yearSurvey by PEN America suggests bans nearly tripled nationwide from previous year’s figure
More than 10,000 books were banned in US public schools from 2023 to 2024, according to a report, marking a stark increase over the year before as Republican-led states pass new censorship laws.
The survey from PEN America suggested that bans of books nearly tripled nationwide, from 3,362 the previous year.
At least 13 titles were banned for the first time, including Alex Haley’s Roots: The Saga of an American Family, which describes the journey of an enslaved person from Africa to the US, and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It on the Mountain, the acclaimed semi-autographical work set in Harlem, New York.
Salem librarians report patrons trashing, hiding LGBTQ books in past year
According to the reports, library staff found that repeatedly, over several weeks, portions of the Pride month display were “turned around, taken down or moved.” A book of Black history was also hidden behind an American history book multiple times, and fliers from the League of Women Voters and college drag shows were removed.
“Libraries across the nation are experiencing an increase in these types of incidents, though it is less common in college libraries compared to public ones. Historically, Chemeketa has not faced such challenges, and this issue has since been fully resolved,” Hulett said.
In another reported incident, someone used a permanent marker to write an anti-gay slur on the men’s bathroom wall.
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