Schedule

Keynote: Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe talk titled "Whatever Happened to Reader Privacy?"

The Library Bill of Rights states that: "All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information." Yet, over the past decades, as networked technologies and linked data made possible great advances in information discovery and access, along side came erosions of reader privacy. State laws and library policies often protect library circulation data; however, most data about information sought and retrieved is no longer represented in circulation records but rather in server logs tagged with metadata that makes it possible to connect data across platforms and services and possible pushing library user data into the commercial consumer data market. Given these realities, library workers are organizing to reclaim reader privacy and make transparent data flows. In this keynote, Lisa will share her work as well as that of others in this area.

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as affiliate faculty in the School of Information Sciences & Center for Global Studies. She is the PI on the IMLS-funded Prioritizing Privacy and the Mellon-funded Licensing Privacy projects. She served on the development team for the NISO Privacy Principles and is a co-author of the "A National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics: Action Handbook."

Library Privacy Workshop with Becky Yoose

This interactive, scenario-based training will facilitate staff in not only understanding privacy policies and procedures, but also give them the chance to work through possible challenges in putting policies and procedures into practice.

Participants will discuss scenarios in breakout rooms and will leave the workshop with actionable next steps for continued learning, organizational change, and advocacy.

A pre-workshop reading is available and has been requested by Becky to be read by participants prior to the workshop: Data Privacy Best Practices Toolkit for Libraries

For over a decade, Becky has wrangled library data in its various forms, from cataloging and metadata to administrating library systems and library data warehouses. Becky has worked with library data flows at both large and small academic and public libraries, as well as with both proprietary and open source library applications and systems. Receiving her MA-LIS from the University of Wisconsin – Madison in 2008, Becky is also an accredited information privacy professional with the International Association of Privacy Professionals, which brings valuable knowledge of data privacy practices and regulations in the US into library practices.

Becky’s expertise has been recognized by the library community with invitations to participate in the Library Values and Privacy Summit and the National Web Privacy Forum as well as a guest lecturer on library privacy in various groups and classes, including the Library Freedom Institute. Becky is also heavily involved in the ALA IFC Privacy Subcommittee, where she helped revise and update the Library Privacy Guidelines for Vendors in 2020 and contributes to the Choose Privacy Every Day blog.

The Library Privacy Workshop will not be recorded.