The latest on the cyber attack on the British Library (see below): all very frustrating and quite scary, but no doubt even more so for staff.

It reminded me of Nicholson Baker’s fine book, The Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, about the dangers of relying on microfiche for retaining runs of provincial newspapers. Paper is a good and durable medium, whereas, as we’re learning, cyber space is not.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/11/20/cyber-attack-british-library-criminals-ransomware/