LONDON (Reuters Life!) - The British Library is re-housing part of its collection in a new facility that will hand responsibility for the storage and retrieval of seven million items to a robotic ...

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 ...

In October 2023, digital pirates stole one of the most important research libraries in the world. The hacking group Rhysida severed access to the British Library in a ransomware attack, hijacking ...

Libraries across Europe appear to be facing attacks from cybercriminals. At Britain’s national library, an “incident” is sending scholars back to an analog age. By Alex Marshall Reporting from London ...

“The complaint of M. Tenter-hooke the Proiector, and Sir Thomas Dodger the Patentee” (1641), from ‘Graven Images,’ published by British Library (all images courtesy British Library unless otherwise ...

The British Library has begun restoring its online services as it continues to recover from last year’s ransomware attack. Sir Roly Keating, Chief Executive at the institution, confirmed in a blog ...

At the end of October 2023, the UK’s national library, the British Library, took to social media to inform users that it was experiencing disruption to its services following an IT outage. Over the ...

The British Library has successfully recovered a significant portion of its main catalogue and restored public access, two-and-a-half months after being forced to take the majority of its IT systems ...