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Weekly News Digest
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May 14, 2026 — In addition to this week's NewsBreaks article and the monthly NewsLink Spotlight, Information Today, Inc. (ITI) offers Weekly News Digests that feature recent product news and company announcements. Watch for additional coverage to appear in the next print issue of Information Today.
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What Libraries Should Learn From the Canvas Ransomware Attack
Marydee Ojala writes the following in “Canvas Outage and Library Contingency Planning” for Information Today Europe:Instructure’s Canvas platform was hit by a ransomware attack in early May, creating chaos in educational institutions worldwide. … Libraries were also hit hard by the outage. When Canvas went down, do did its Library Tools feature, which libraries use for displaying LibGuides and subject-focused database lists, along with basic information such as location hours, AskALibrarian FAQs, librarian-designed modules, and chat widgets. Librarians could also have been added to courses by the instructors. For more information, read the blog post.
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