The British Library has announced that users of Amazon's Kindle e-reader will be able to download more than 65,000 19th century classics for free this coming spring in a special format that will have ...

A major exhibition could be delayed as a result of the library strikes, which are taking place due to a dispute over pay ...

The British Library has been hit by a major IT outage affecting its website and many of its services following a "cyber incident" that impacted its systems on Saturday, October 28. The ongoing outage ...

The British Library has signed a deal for Google to scan and digitise 250,000 out-of-copyright books published between 1700 and 1870, and make them available free of charge online. The scanned ...

Home to more than 170 million items, including the Magna Carta, the British Library is one of the largest and most impressive book collections in the world. But in October 2023, a major cyber attack ...

After gaining global acceptance, Chinese online literature has now found its place in the bookshelves of the world’s largest academic library. Sixteen Chinese web novels have been included in the ...

Inside the British Library, two years on from devastating cyber attack - Staff tell Athena Stavrou they’ve faced abuse because of ongoing issues at the library, where dozens of services remain unavail ...

The British Library has told customers that their personal data may have been stolen during a recent ransomware attack that knocked the library’s systems and website offline for the past month. In a ...

The Rhysida ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for a cyberattack on the British Library in October, which has caused a major ongoing IT outage. Modern phishing has changed a lot in the past ...

The British Library has disclosed that it has experienced a cyber attack of an undisclosed nature, that has caused multiple technology systems at the institution to go down. The organisation first ...

The British Library said a ransomware attack by a criminal group is the cause of a technology outage which has disabled its website and other computer systems for weeks. Some data has been leaked ...

The cost of rebuilding the British Library’s systems following the October Rhysida ransomware attack is likely to hit between £6m and £7m, dwarfing the £650,000 ransom demand and burning through ...