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===== Future of LFP =====
 
===== Future of LFP =====
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Priority stickies:
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Funding - funding that isn't IMLS, sustainability, staff that isn't just Alison
  
'''What are our most pressing issues/needs as an organization?'''
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*What are our most pressing issues/needs as an organization?*
  
* Priorities
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From sticky notes – biggest issue is FUNDING. Most funding comes from IMLS – largely alison's salary, some funds go to NYU, some funds are seet aside for our summer 2022 event.
** Broader org goals
 
*** Shared sense of mission (long term)
 
*** Sustainable governance structure, sustainable growth, scaffolding (short term)
 
*** How to balance needed work and ideas with individual capacity (long term)
 
*** Keeping track of all that we do and communicating it to the world (long term)
 
*** Sustaining funding, long term, more staff than just Alison, not just IMLS (short and long term -- BIGGEST priority in this question category)
 
*** More BIPOC members (short term)
 
*** Localized, regional meetups and trainings (short and long term)
 
*** Professional development for library colleagues (short and long term)
 
*** Different/better internal comms (short term)
 
  
* Action items:
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Immediate priorities –
** Mission statement, values document
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more staff
** Governance structure plan
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expanding membership re: racial and ethnicity identity, recruitment AND retention in LFP and libraries
** Internal/external newsletter
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local community education, local meetups
** Continued BIPOC recruitment strategy
 
** Regional LFP groups
 
** LFP chat channel
 
** Plan for LFP trainings for colleagues
 
** Determining what we could be offering that we don't get from ALA
 
** Funding strategy (in strategic plan)
 
** Applying for new funding
 
  
* From sticky notes – biggest issue is FUNDING. Most funding comes from IMLS – largely alison's salary, some funds go to NYU, some funds are seet aside for our summer 2022 event.
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importance of regional input/network – state specific laws, understanding local library communities
* more staff
 
* expanding membership re: racial and ethnicity identity, recruitment AND retention in LFP and libraries
 
* local community education, local meetups
 
* importance of regional input/network – state specific laws, understanding local library communities
 
* worklife balance – A workshop?
 
* Newsletter – 
 
- Should it be a press release or internal?
 
- Presenting to LIS students – something that can be shared publicly
 
- Newsletter could be equivalent to our "annual report"
 
- Maybe internal could be monthly, external would be quarterly – yearly, if quarterly isn't feasible.
 
* Sustainable government structures – Leadership beyond Alison? "Bus rate" – where would your project/institution be if members of your project/org were no longer involved. How do we expand our "bus rate"?
 
* Clairfying question – do we just want to set priorities or priorities and action items? Priorities and then share with larger group, then action items? This exercise is the making of a strategic plan, will share with larger group so that everyone can add to it.
 
* Communication channel needed! slack, something with threads, etc. Dischord or something else? Locally controlled communication models don't work very well.Diaspora was mentioned, element could be an option that was previously discussed?
 
* Shared sense of mission is needed, creating a mission statement and a values statement should be in our future
 
* Bringing in more people
 
* Taking down ALA ;~P
 
- What do we want ALA to be that they are not? What do we need from that that we aren't getting?
 
- Could ALA use their lobbying power more in general and more strategically?
 
- Look at facial recognition laws in Boston – why isn't ALA signing on to that in support of local librarians/library orgs?
 
- Get ALA to reevaluate their freedom to read statement – or do we just make something better?
 
- Check in with current ALA members for recruitment?
 
  
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Short-term priorities –
  
'''What are we doing well that we should keep doing?'''
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Worklife balance – 
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A workshop?  
  
* Priorities:
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Newsletter – 
** Creating equitable, power aware, trauma-informed learning spaces (short and long term)
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Should it be a press release or internal?
** Continue with great LFI speakers (short and long term)
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Presenting to LIS students – something that can be shared publicly
** Networking/coalition building (short and long term)
+
Newsletter could be equivalent to our "annual report"
** Maintain social justice as pillar of org (short and long term)
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Maybe internal could be monthly, external would be quarterly – yearly, if quarterly isn't feasible.  
** Keep trainings free
 
- if not free, must be sliding scale
 
- talks fees should also be sliding scale, i.e. student orgs vs large corporations/organizations
 
** Education meetups
 
** Regular check-ins via Zoom
 
**  Overall recruitment strategy
 
** Grant seeking
 
  
* Action items:
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Sustainable government structures – 
** Values statement should include our commitment to social justice, and equitable, power aware, trauma informed community space, and strategic plan should include a plan to continue our commitment
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Leadership beyond Alison? "Bus rate" – where would your project/institution be if members of your project/org were no longer involved. How do we expand our "bus rate"?
** Ditto above for a recruitment strategic, particularly focused on BIPOC members
 
** Networking/coalition building in strategic plan
 
** Free trainings/sliding scale in strategic plan
 
** Meetups - virtual and in-person - in strategic plan (including regional meetings)
 
  
'''Where/how/what do we need to improve?'''
+
Clairfying question – do we just want to set priorities or priorities and action items? Priorities and then share with larger group, then action items? This exercise is the making of a strategic plan, will share with larger group so that everyone can add to it.
  
* Priorities:
+
Communication channel needed!
** BIPOC recruitment, expanding recruitment to sub-fields and more geographic
+
slack, something with threads, etc.
** Funding, securing sustainable funding, getting more people paid other than Alison
+
Dischord or something else?
** Outreach to patrons, para-professionals
+
Locally controlled communication models don't work very well.
** Engaging with disability in work as well as the disability community more broadly
+
Diaspora was mentioned, element could be an option that was previously discussed?
- Bringing in a speaker for a special session
 
- Thinking about what we mean when we say disability
 
** Prioritization concerns – focus on fewer projects, learn how to narrow our goals
 
** Improve post-cohort cohesion
 
** Regional campaigns and coalition building
 
** Post-cohort cohesion
 
** Long-term strategic planning
 
  
* Action items:
+
Shared sense of mission is needed
** Strategic plan which includes post-cohort cohesion, virtual and in-person regional meetups, BIPOC prioritization, outreach to patrons and paraprofessionals, engaging with disability community, funding plan
+
creating a mission statement and a values statement should be in our future
  
 +
Bringing in more people
  
'''Who are our priority audiences/who do we need to reach that we aren't currently?'''
+
Taking down ALA ;~P
 +
What do we want ALA to be that they are not? What do we need from that that we aren't getting?  
 +
Could ALA use their lobbying power more in general and more strategically?
 +
Look at facial recognition laws in Boston – why isn't ALA signing on to that in support of local librarians/library orgs?
 +
Get ALA to reevaluate their freedom to read statement – or do we just make something better?
 +
Check in with current ALA members for recruitment?
  
* Priorities:
 
** Youth – long term goal
 
** Disability communities
 
** ESL/ELL and Immigrant/Refugee communities
 
– lack of basic literacy in technology, haven't seen spaces that prioritize this in Spanish
 
– thinking about who is most impacted by these issues
 
– a matter of just putting things together
 
- working with students: thinking about DACA, biometrics used for immigration paperwork
 
- thinking abt where the urgency lies
 
- connecting with existing community organizations, build partnerships to support one another
 
- think about universal design (how can changes to how we do this is benefit everyone, i.e. curb cuts) and universal resistance
 
  
/// Localization lab could be a possible partner – work with immigrants and refugees, think about universal design
+
What are we doing well that we should keep doing?
  
** Local governments, decision makers
+
Creating equitable, power aware, trauma-informed learning spaces
** Administration, management in institutions
+
More speakers from LFI
** Reporters, journalists
+
Networking/coalition building
** Patrons with low digital literacy, those without access to this kind of learning/information
+
Maintain social justice as pillar of org
** MLIS students
+
Keep trainings free
** Library IT workers/IT professionals so they understand why we don't want to surveil our patrons, etc.
+
- if not free, must be sliding scale
** Working with reservation libraries, they don't get the support that public libraries do, possibly a branch from youth goal, specifically youth from/living on reservations
+
- talks fees should also be sliding scale, i.e. student orgs vs large corporations/organizations
** Prison libraries, prison library programs
 
  
* Action items:
+
Education meetups
** Strategic plan name these groups as priorities for outreach, and include who is doing this work, whether we intend to collaborate or expand on these areas ourselves, also translation/localization plan
+
Regular check-ins via Zoom
 +
Overall recruitment strategy
 +
Grant seeking
  
'''What are the biggest privacy/surveillance issues that we should focus on in the short/long term?'''
 
  
* Priorities:
+
Where/how/what do we need to improve?
** Library vendor data brokers working with ICE, DHS, Homeland Security
 
** Data cartels (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.)
 
* Making privacy part of all programming/design processes/ in our inside our institutions (privacy culture)
 
** Biometrics and police/ICE, use of shotspotter
 
** Instilling privacy as a core value of librarianship
 
** Attacks on scholars working on race/CRT, doxxing, harassment, etc.
 
* how do we develop support for each other re: doxxing, harassment
 
- knowing that there is an organization to support us when powerful respond/come
 
– CREATING/doing trainings for internal risk assessments
 
- support for if you experience retaliation in your job, how to work with your union (if you have one)
 
** Health privacy issues
 
** Mission creep in library spaces
 
** Legislative protection of privacy rights
 
** Police surveillance and social media harvesting
 
** Privacy as libraries phase out passwords in favor of biometrics, etc.
 
** Google's power over things like Palestinian liberation
 
  
* Action items:
+
Funding, securing sustainable funding, getting more people paid other than Alison
** Strategic plan: name these areas
+
Outreach to patrons, para-professionals
** Revisit antidoxxing working group
+
Engaging with disability in work as well as the disability community more broadly
 +
- Bringing in a speaker for a special session
 +
- Thinking about what we mean when we say disability
 +
Prioritization concerns – focus on fewer projects, learn how to narrow our goals
 +
Improve post-cohort cohesion
 +
BIPOC recruitment, expanding recruitment to sub-fields and more geographic
 +
Regional campaigns and coalition building
 +
Post-cohort cohesion
 +
Long-term strategic planning
  
  
'''How could we expand our work beyond privacy and surveillance?'''
+
Who are our priority audiences/who do we need to reach that we aren't currently?
 +
Youth – long term goal
 +
Disability communities
 +
ESL/ELL and Immigrant/Refugee communities
 +
– lack of basic literacy in technology, haven't seen spaces that prioritize this in Spanish
 +
– thinking about who is most impacted by these issues
 +
– a matter of just putting things together
 +
- working with students: thinking about DACA, biometrics used for immigration paperwork
 +
- thinking abt where the urgency lies
 +
- connecting with existing community organizations, build partnerships to support one another
 +
- think about universal design (how can changes to how we do this is benefit everyone, i.e. curb cuts) and universal resistance
  
* Priorities:
+
•• Localization lab could be a possible partner – work with immigrants and refugees, think about universal design
** How to win in library land
 
** Misinformation/disinformation
 
** Censorship
 
** Learning FOIA, participatory budgeting, power mapping, getting to know your local government (grounded in ethics, community driven)
 
- examining library boards of trustees
 
- how do we get other people on library boards, is anyone track current attacks on library boards? – SHOULD WE? (Every Library may be doing that, they do this with leadership and candidate training) Since funding can't be stripped, extremists are taken upon boards to shift money
 
- ALERT SYSTEM for these kinds of issues? Is there one for libraries?
 
** Having access to legal services within this organization 
 
** Support library workers rights (are other organizations already doing this?)
 
** Union advocacy
 
** Public advocacy campaigns promoted by LFP folks
 
** Zines,
 
** Continue social justice work re: how privacy/surveillance impacts people asymmetrically
 
** Police abolition, no cops in libraries
 
** Leadership training
 
  
/// start by seeing who is already doing this work and figure out where we fit in
+
Local governments, decision makers
 +
Administration, management in institutions
 +
Reporters, journalists
 +
Patrons with low digital literacy, those without access to this kind of learning/information
 +
MLIS students
 +
Library IT workers/IT professionals so they understand why we don't want to surveil our patrons, etc.
 +
Working with reservation libraries, they don't get the support that public libraries do, possibly a branch from youth goal, specifically youth from/living on reservations
 +
Prison libraries, prison library programs
  
* Action items:
 
** Address all of this in the strategic plan
 
** Some of this will go in funding proposals too
 
** Figure out who is doing the work already
 
** Values statement addresses some of this as well
 
  
'''What is LFP doing in 5 years? How do we get there?'''
+
What are the biggest privacy/surveillance issues that we should focus on in the short/long term?
  
* Priorities:
+
Library vendor data brokers working with ICE, DHS, Homeland Security
** Sustained major funding beyond 1-2 year timeline
+
Data cartels (Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc.)
**  Assist other orgs/individuals with related projects
+
Making privacy part of all programming/design processes/ in our inside our institutions (privacy culture)
** Staff of 5 full time people
+
Biometrics and police/ICE, use of shotspotter
** Members in all 50 states
+
Instilling privacy as a core value of librarianship
** Consider regional chapters, local cohorts, regional hubs
+
Attacks on scholars working on race/CRT, doxxing, harassment, etc.
** Leading library world re: social justice, library values, privacy awareness,  
+
how do we develop support for each other re: doxxing, harassment
** Increase awareness of who we are/what we do
+
- knowing that there is an organization to support us when powerful respond/come
** Host prof development
+
– CREATING/doing trainings for internal risk assessments
** Train, teach privacy in library  
+
- support for if you experience retaliation in your job, how to work with your union (if you have one)
** LFP journal / zine distro
+
Health privacy issues
** Offer DIRECT support
+
Mission creep in library spaces
** Regional contacts etc
+
Legislative protection of privacy rights
** Assist other orgs with related projects
+
Police surveillance and social media harvesting
** Consulting
+
Privacy as libraries phase out passwords in favor of biometrics, etc.
** New infrastructure support?
+
Google's power over things like Palestinian liberation
  
* Action items:
 
** Strategic plan, funding, values statement, regional meetups, newsletter
 
  
'''What do you want from LFP? What do you need?'''
+
How could we expand our work beyond privacy and surveillance?
  
* Priorities:  
+
How to win in library land
** Legal resources
+
Misinformation/disinformation
** Digest resources in multiple languages
+
Censorship
**  Time to absorb what happened in cohort 4
+
Learning FOIA, participatory budgeting, power mapping, getting to know your local government (grounded in ethics, community driven)
** Intranet?
+
- examining library boards of trustees
** Ongoing training and education
+
- how do we get other people on library boards, is anyone track current attacks on library boards? – SHOULD WE? (Every Library may be doing that, they do this with leadership and candidate training) Since funding can't be stripped, extremists are taken upon boards to shift money
** Continued training and support
+
- ALERT SYSTEM for these kinds of issues? Is there one for libraries?
** Research group for white paper(s) – an in-depth report or guide about a specific topic and the problems that surround it. It is meant to educate readers and help them to understand and solve an issue
+
Having access to legal services within this organization 
** how to ensure that we have a practical outcome from all of these conversations?
+
Support library workers rights (are other organizations already doing this?)
** Credentials?
+
Union advocacy
** Local based sub groups
+
Public advocacy campaigns promoted by LFP folks
** Tor training  
+
Zines,
** Continued space and support for more in depth learning  
+
Continue social justice work re: how privacy/surveillance impacts people asymmetrically
 +
Police abolition, no cops in libraries
 +
Leadership training
 +
 
 +
*** start by seeing who is already doing this work and figure out where we fit in
 +
 
 +
 
 +
What is LFP doing in 5 years? How do we get there?
 +
Sustained major funding beyond 1-2 year timeline
 +
Assist other orgs/individuals with related projects
 +
Staff of 5 full time people
 +
Members in all 50 states
 +
Consider regional chapters, local cohorts, regional hubs
 +
Leading library world re: social justice, library values, privacy awareness,
 +
Increase awareness of who we are/what we do
 +
Host prof development
 +
Train, teach privacy in library
 +
LFP journal / zine distro
 +
Offer DIRECT support
 +
Regional contacts etc
 +
Assist other orgs with related projects
 +
Consulting
 +
New infrastructure support?
 +
 
 +
 
 +
What do you want from LFP? What do you need?
 +
 
 +
Legal resources
 +
Digest resources in multiple languages
 +
Time to absorb what happened in cohort 4
 +
Intranet?
 +
Ongoing training and education
 +
Continued training and support
 +
Research group for white paper(s) – an in-depth report or guide about a specific topic and the problems that surround it. It is meant to educate readers and help them to understand and solve an issue
 +
- how to ensure that we have a practical outcome from all of these conversations?
 +
Credentials?
 +
Local based sub groups
 +
Tor training  
 +
Continued space and support for more in depth learning  
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
 +
 
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===== Creating a Culture of Privacy =====
  
* Action items: all strategic plan stuff again or grant stuff
 
 
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===== Current surveillance landscape =====
  
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===== Unscheduled time sessions =====
 
===== Unscheduled time sessions =====
 
;'''Saturday after-dinner activities'''
 
;'''Saturday after-dinner activities'''

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