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The British Library Cyber-Attack and Implications for Law Libraries: Some Initial Thoughts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2024

Dunstan Speight
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Abstract

In the following article Dunstan Speight offers a few initial thoughts on the implications for law libraries of the October 2023 cyber-attack on the British Library. While the remarks apply particularly to larger institutional libraries (such as those of professional bodies like the Inns of Court) there are lessons to be learnt for all types of library and information service.

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British Librarycyber-attack
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Main Features
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 24 , Issue 2 , June 2024 , pp. 84 - 87
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2024. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Endnotes

1 Catherine Baksi, ‘Hackers hit lawyers with cyberattacks’ The Times (20 February 2024)

2 Learning lessons from the Cyber-attack: British Library cyber incident review (British Library, 8 March 2024) <www.bl.uk/home/british-library-cyber-incident-review-8-march-2024.pdf>

3 ibid. pp. 17–18

4 ibid. p.7

5 Catherine Baksi, op. cit.

6 ibid. page 3