Public libraries face difficult questions regarding what vaccine materials to make available. How to decide?

The ordinary activities of librarianship—acquisition, cataloguing, and reproduction—became fraught with mystery

A data breach is causing big problems for nearly a hundred employees working for the Columbus Metropolitan Library system. Thieves got their names and personal information and then used it to open fraudulent bank accounts. The victims found out about all of it over the weekend. One worker discovered a fake bank account had been set up in their name and that started a domino effect. More people came forward and said the same thing had been done to them.

Libraries across Canada and United States are adopting diversity initiatives to encourage inclusive library environments and services. Many policies and frameworks have a user-centered approach. However, there is little focus on encouraging diverse service providers in the library. The aim of this study is to determine the strategic approaches that academic libraries are using in their efforts to recruit and retain diverse librarians. Systematic review methodology involved searching Library & Information Science Abstracts, Library & Information Science Source, Gender Studies Database, Race Relations Abstracts, Google, and grey literature composed primarily of information from library associations’ and organizations’ websites. The primary search terms (and their variations) include diversity, ethnicity, gender, socioeconomics, academic library, librarians, recruitment, and retention. Publications were included if they were about the recruitment and/or retention strategies used by academic libraries to improve diversity among librarians. Nineteen publications and one ALA website were included in the review. All 20 publications were based in a North American context, and the interventions included targeted recruitment strategies, internship or residency programs, mentor- ship, and professional development opportunities. Using a modified version of the CASP Qualitative Checklist, the publications were critically appraised to evaluate the validity of the findings. Fifty percent of the publications included an assessment component to determine the value of the intervention. Although a number of programs exist to recruit minorities to academic librarianship, the number of visible minorities in the field has remained stagnant for decades.

The Department of Homeland Security is monitoring the apparent hack of a government website, according to a senior administration official, who called it "defacement."

The schools have been randomly selected, and the issue relates to a legal battle that has pitted most provincial education departments against the national group that represents writers, publishers, and their works.

(2018). Security, Archivists, and Digital Collections. Journal of Archival Organization: Vol. 15, No. 1-2, pp. 1-19.

LinkedIn has temporarily delayed planned changes to Lynda.com, a popular education-video library the company bought in 2015 for $1.5 billion, after ...

Library e-book waits have prompted some to take their memberships to a new extreme, collecting library cards or card numbers to enable them to find the rarest or most popular books, with the shortest wait.

Discovery and Web Services Librarian, University of Alberta

HOLY SHIT this data migration script actually CRACKS PATRON PINS as part of export. Holy shit.

Remembering one of the architects of American copyright law—and one of the legal world's pioneering women