Remains of grand building that may have housed up to 20,000 scrolls uncovered in central Cologne, dating back to second century AD

Jim Parker, Coordinator of the PLR International Networks, explains what the public lending right (PLR) is and why it is important for authors.

The Online Computer Library Center, a global cooperative that provides resources, research and programming to libraries, experienced a systemwide cyberattack Thursday, causing a six- to eight-hour outage for many users. According to updates posted to the OCLC's Twitter account, the attack was a denial-of-service attack, meaning that hackers flooded the network with superfluous requests to overload the system or beat out legitimate requests. "This was what is called a 'volumetric attack,' which is difficult to mitigate, as it floods networks with an extremely large amount of seemingly legitimate traffic," the OCLC tweeted. Amazon, GitHub and the Library of Congress have been targeted in similar attacks. Systems were fully restored later Thursday evening, and the OCLC reports that network security was not breached and no data was stolen. OCLC has already restructured some of their services to increase security and prevent future attacks.

Former archivist Greg Priore and Caliban Book Shop owner John Schulman accused of theft and related counts in alleged 20-year conspiracy.

In 2016, Colgate University Libraries began converting their static HTML website to the Drupal platform. This article outlines the process librarians used to complete this project using only in-house resources and minimal funding. For libraries and similar institutions considering the move to a content management system, this case study can provide a starting point and highlight important issues.

To ask: what do you do when a figure lionized in your library was a racist? eugenicist? harasser?

N.b. link is an Ebsco "permalink" so will probably break. LJ considers this premium content, so can't read it on its website.

This edition of Keeping Up With... was written by Margaret Heller. Margaret Heller is Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago, email: mheller1@luc.edu. She is also a Public Voices

Content updated 2016 Links updated October 15, 2018 Community-Led Work in Practice: Experiences from Canadian libraries A series of papers written by members of the former CLA Community-Led Library…

Results of a vendor privacy audit performed at SJPL.

LibParlor Contributing Editor, Nimisha, interviews Annie Pho on the experiences of women of color librarians and the role of identity in LIS.