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Nearly two years ago, the Library of Congress announced the creation of a brand new crowdsourced transcription program: By the People. This news was shared here on the Signal and at the 1-year mark. Can you believe it’s already time for a 2-year celebration?! As a quick recap, By the People is a volunteer engagement and […]
Welcome! As summer draws to a close, it’s time to highlight hot news in digital library services. Featuring contributions from: Cathy Aster, Hannah Frost, Dinah Handel, Amy Hodge, Michael Olson, and Sarah Seestone. First Spanish-English exhibit published | Primera exposición publicada en español-inglésThe first Spanish-English Spotlight at Stanford exhibit has been published, The Maria Jesús Casado García-Sampedro […]
On today’s Princh Library Blog post we have guest writer Egor Gerashchenko, deputy development director of the Centralized Library System of Moscow District sharing his thoughts on the benefits of collaborations for libraries. He is also sharing his checklist he uses to prepare for new collaborations. Collaborations for Libraries Branded clothes, souvenirs and rent-free space […]
Guglielmo Marconi’s trials on the Bristol Channel – Credit: BT archive Yet despite the technological approach applied to every stage of telecommunications, there have always been specific designs regarding the information exchanging protocols used to set up a standardized language that allows devices to speak to each other. As history has repeatedly taught us, this […]
Microsoft today released updates to remedy nearly 130 security vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and supported software. None of the flaws are known to be currently under active exploitation, but 23 of them could be exploited by malware or malcontents to seize complete control of Windows computers with little or no help from users. […]
Installing Kali Linux or any other pentesting distro reveals the massive amount of tools in today’s infosec landscape that make the work of researchers, analysts and other security professionals easier, faster and more accurate. This certainly wasn’t the case 14 years ago, when dnsmap was released. Tools like dnsmap marked the beginning of the ever-growing […]
Anqi Xu, pictured above, is one of 240 students who deposited their work to the Stanford Digital Repository (SDR) as part of completing their programs of study at Stanford in 2020. Xu received her MA in East Asian Studies. Her thesis, available at PURL and SearchWorks, is a case study using a combination of business and […]
We’re pleased to announce expanded discovery for Spotlight at Stanford exhibits is now available via library.stanford.edu and searchworks.stanford.edu. Our colleagues on the DLSS Access Team have recently added an Exhibits tile to the bento search options, adding another discovery point for Spotlight at Stanford. There are different ways to conduct a search that will yield […]
Which generation reads the most? On this week’s Princh Libray Blog, Best by the numbers shares a fun infographic, that will provide you with the answers. Check out the infographic below. Have you ever wondered which generation reads the most? Are tech-obsessed Gen Z’s and Millennials actually reading less than Baby Boomers and the Silent […]
When you own a short email address at a popular email provider, you are bound to get gobs of spam, and more than a few alerts about random people trying to seize control over the account. If your account name is short and desirable enough, this kind of activity can make the account less reliable […]
One of our newest SurfaceBrowser™ features is SQL Explorer. This cool new feature allows you to combine the power of structured query language with our huge records database, allowing you to extract the most information possible. Today we’ll share some easy-to-follow examples that can help you find interesting, and even unusual, data on SSL certificates […]
With this in mind it’s safe to assume that organizations are highly interested in protecting their data; after all, it’s at constant risk. If it’s valuable to the organization, it will surely be valuable to malicious actors, whether to be sold on the black market, used for market advantage, leveraged to ruin reputations, or just […]
August 2020 A Monthly Roundup of News and Thoughts from the Library of Congress Labs Team Job Announcements WE’RE HIRING! The Computing Cultural Heritage in the Cloud project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is seeking an Innovation Specialist (GS-12) to work with our curators and reference librarians supporting reference questions that require data […]
Email service provider Sendgrid is grappling with an unusually large number of customer accounts whose passwords have been cracked, sold to spammers, and abused for sending phishing and email malware attacks. Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may […]
Kathleen O’Neill is currently serving as one of two Staff Innovators at the Library of Congress. Their 2020 project, Born Digital Access Now!, explores existing pathways for accessing born digital materials in the Manuscript Division. In this series of blog posts, Kathleen describes the complexities of gaining access to born digital materials through the lens […]
Yesterday’s piece told the tale of Hieu Minh Ngo, a hacker the U.S. Secret Service described as someone who caused more material financial harm to more Americans than any other convicted cybercriminal. Ngo was recently deported back to his home country after serving more than seven years in prison for running multiple identity theft services. […]
One of the professional paths that pique the interest of the most curious minds in the Library & Information Sciences “universe“ is that of mobile libraries. These nomadic, wandering, itinerant units —with as many shapes and appearances as potential names— are devoted to taking books from the safe comfort of their shelves and moving them […]
Since September of 2007, it’s been maintained and upgraded by Lyon and a number of developers, many from Google’s Summer of Code program. And on top of its long history, it continues to offer many cool features that are still extremely helpful when conducting mapping of network-facing services, for all sorts of assessments that can […]
At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “Hieupc” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service that siphoned consumer dossiers from some of the world’s top data brokers. That is, until his greed and ambition played straight into an elaborate snare set by the U.S. Secret Service. Now, […]
Kathleen O’Neill, Senior Archives Specialist Kathleen O’Neill is currently serving as one of two Staff Innovators at the Library of Congress. Their 2020 project, Born Digital Access Now!, explores existing pathways for accessing born digital materials in the Manuscript Division. In this series of blog posts, Kathleen describes the complexities of gaining access to born […]
