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Readings and resources for better policies

• San Jose Public Library Vendor Security Analysis results
• EFF’s How to Assess Vendors’ Data Security
• EFF Vendor Security Checklist
• Protecting Patron Privacy: Librarians, Vendors, and Patrons Each Have a Role to Play
• NISO Consensus Principles on Users’ Digital Privacy in Library, Publisher, and Software-Provider Systems (NISO Privacy Principles)
• LFI 2019 lecture on vendor agreements and privacy from Erin Berman
• LFI 2019 lecture on vendor agreements and privacy from Sarah Houghton
• State privacy laws regarding library records

Good policies

• Greenfield Community College Nahman-Watson Library (thanks to Claire Lobdell)

ALA Privacy Checklists

The ALA Privacy checklists are the starting point for any vendor contract negotiations or library policy revisions.

Ideas on implementation of privacy checklists in your library

• Kinney, LFI cohort one
• Lobdell, LFI cohort one
• Eppley, LFI cohort one
• Jones, LFI cohort one