“Being at the helm of the British Library has been – and continues to be – the greatest privilege of my life.”
After 12 years as Chief Executive, Sir Roly Keating has announced that he will step down from the role in April next year: bit.ly/BL-CEO-Update

Today we’ve published a paper about the cyber-attack that took place last October.

Its goal is to share our understanding of what happened and to help others learn from our experience.

You can read the paper on our website, and hear from our CEO, Sir Roly Keating, in this…

We’re now able to share a list of the improvements and restoration of service you’re likely to see between now and July, including access to more Library content and changes to Reader Registration so that everyone can access our collection.

You can read more about this in a new…

You can read our latest update about our ongoing recovery from last year’s cyber-attack in a new blog from our CEO, Sir Roly Keating.

We’re going to be restoring as many services as we can within the coming months, in particular improving access to collection items held in…

We’re now able to share timings for Irish and UK PLR statements and payments. We also have an update on how to register new titles and amend details. Thanks for bearing with us, we’re really sorry for the recent disruption. Find out more: bl.uk/more

UPDATE 15/12/23: blogs.bl.uk/living-knowled…