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6 Security Measures to Protect Your Library

Tech Soup

Public libraries handle a surprising amount of personal information every day. You might already take steps to secure your library card database, but public-access computers and other systems can also pose a risk. If you aren't already, you need to pay close attention to securing these other systems, too.

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Libraries pivot to survive pandemic

Candid

Libraries store the energy that fuels the Imagination. During COVID-19, libraries across the country have had to re-imagine themselves so they can continue fueling imaginations and serving communities. Libraries have helped fill the void by providing hot spot access and in some cases laptops computers to students.

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How to Make This Your Most Successful Library Giving Day

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Library Giving Day is an international one-day fundraising event that could significantly boost your library’s fundraising potential. How can you plan a more successful Library Giving Day? In 2022 alone, Library Giving Day reported 12,168 total donations adding up to $1.6 Check out what other libraries have done.

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6 Ways You Can Safeguard Patrons' Privacy at Your Library

Tech Soup

Patron privacy is one of those topics that touches every aspect of a library's operations, and for good reason. After all, from library card sign-ups to public access computer usage to reference desk inquiries, your patrons share a lot of information with you.

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Benetech Featured on the Giving Library

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To create as much public good as possible, philanthropists need information about the performance of potential grantees: whether they have clear, measurable goals and the organizational capacity to realize them. We’re delighted that Benetech was selected to be one of the first 250 nonprofits spotlighted on the Giving Library.

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Tips for Libraries Providing Health Information Training

Tech Soup

Thinking about providing health information training for your community? Dana Abbey is the Health Information Literacy Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental region. She has a background in public libraries, library consultation, and prescription drug monitoring.

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The End of Expertise and How Associations Must Adapt

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Here are a few statistics that we shared: 27% of Americans say they have not too much or no confidence in scientists to act in the public’s best interest ( Pew Research ) 39% of Americans, a record-high, say they don’t trust the media at all. This translates into the negative national narrative that college isn’t worth it.