A few days ago I wanted to access some bookish stuff at the British Library – but, alas, to no avail. It hadn’t occurred to me that last year’s ‘mega hack attack’ – for want of a better expression – still remained unresolved.
To that end here is a blog entry from last week written by the Chief Executive, Sir Roly Keating; for me the most relevant information being:
For the Library’s global community of users on the web, the absence of our online and digitised resources has been keenly felt. Two early priorities for restoration are the web pages providing access to the Library’s unique collection of digitised manuscripts, and our popular Learning resources, including Discovering Literature. Work is under way on both of these, with the aim of getting them online again by September, in time for the start of the new academic year.
Knowledge Matters blog: “Restoring our services – 28 May 2024 update”
Hopefully their end of the Summer target will be met. A very complex matter it seems, further exacerbated upon in this March entry, and much more so in the therein mentioned review explaining the incident and the aftermath which I have embedded below.