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The British library is in crisis: why does nobody care?

The widespread indifference to the British Library’s crippling cyberattack demonstrates a perilous failure to value the knowledge infrastructure vital for national prosperity, says Hetan Shah The head ...

Authors hail 'life-changing’ BookTok revolution as it takes over the British Library

As BookTok hits billions of views, authors Jess Bacon and Lucy Rose praise a "life-changing" digital reading revolution that brought viral TiKTok reading communities into the British Library ...
Hyperallergic

Watch the British Library Digitize One of the World's Largest Books

The 1660 Klencke Atlas is among the world’s biggest books, measuring nearly six feet by seven and a half feet when open. So when the British Library digitized the towering tome, it required several ...
TechCrunch

British Library confirms customer data was stolen by hackers, with outage expected to last ‘months’

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 ...
Diginomica

The British Library looks to the future as it reveals the incalculable damage of its ransomware attack

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 ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Rare Magical Manuscripts Go on Display at the British Library

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 ...
CounterPunch

Funeral Atmospherics at the British Library

On October 23, 2023, the British Library, one of the world’s finest repositories of knowledge, was subjected to a cyber-attack. Some 600GB of files, including the personal data of Library users and ...
Bleeping Computer

Rhysida ransomware gang claims British Library cyberattack

The Rhysida ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the British Library in October, which has caused a major ongoing IT outage. Rhysida is auctioning off the data it reportedly ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The British Library’s Dirtiest Books Have Been Digitized

For more than 100 years, the British Library kept thousands of its dirtiest books locked away from the rest of its collections. All volumes deemed to be in need of extra safeguarding so that members ...
The Bookseller

TikTok celebrates the National Year of Reading at the British Library

TikTok celebrated its partnership with the National Year of Reading with a BookTok Late event at the British Library on ...
Wired

The British Library is racing to save archived sounds from decay

A Nazi radio archive with more than 4,000 discs that have never been played, a collection of Beijing street sounds from the 90s and the voice of Florence Nightingale are among the British Library's ...
The New York Times

British Library

Here’s a guide to illuminated manuscripts, antique tomes and first editions around the British capital. By Sarah Bahr From the must-see locations to the most frequently asked questions, our guide has ...