Q&A with British Library CEO Rebecca Lawrence on dealing with the aftermath of the major October 2023 cyberattack, AI scraping, AI for text analysis, and more
Mishal Husain / Bloomberg : LinkedIn: Mishal Husain See also Mediagazer LinkedIn: Mishal Husain : The Weekend interview is live .. it's Rebecca Lawrence, speaking for the first time since she took ov...
British Library hack lessons for the UK: ransomware is a national security issue, a national response is required, policy mitigations are available, and more
Introduction, apology, caveat, and then another apology — The introduction: For nearly three months, the British Library …
Source: the British Library will spend £6M-£7M, or 40% of its reserves, to recover from an October cyberattack that rendered most of its services inaccessible
Horrible as this story is, I am more shocked that GBP 6-7 M constitute a whopping 40% of the British Library's reserves. If that's the case, it's a wonder. A national treasure that is grossly underf...
British Library to offer 19th Century first editions for free download on Amazon Kindle
The British Library is to make more than 65,000 rare first editions of 19th Century fiction available for the public to download for free from the spring. — Owners of the Amazon Kindle e-book device...
British Library books go digital
More than 100,000 old books previously unavailable to the public will go online thanks to a mass digitisation programme at the British Library. — The programme focuses on 19th Century books, many of...