LFI 2025/weekend/agenda

Agenda

Friday, July 25th

Time	Location	Activity
Starting around noon	TBD	Group meeting of some kind
Starting at 3 pm	Hotel checkin	Best Western
7:00 pm	TBD	Informal dinner, whoever is around

Saturday, July 26th

Time	Location	Activity	Facilitators
Starting at 9:15 am	Breakfast and adding small group discussion ideas	Coffee, pastries, and fruit (including vegan and GF options, and allergy labeling)
10 - 11 am	Friends Center MLK room	Introductions, icebreaker, create community agreements, review agenda, small group discussion planning	Alison
11 am - 12 pm	Friends Center MLK room	Relationship-Building Activity: Sharing our current work and how we're creating a culture of privacy in our libraries. Facilitators will ask questions about everyone's successes and challenges, things we've done, things we're working on, things we'd like to do, etc.
12 - 12:45 pm	Friends Center MLK room	Small group discussions around library type or subject
12:45 - 2:15 pm		Lunch on your own
2:15 - 3:15 pm	Friends Center MLK room	LFP teaching and learning resource review and discussion
3:15 - 4 pm	Friends Center MLK room	Wrap-up discussion circle; evening plans coordination
4- 5 pm	Free time!
5 - 7 pm	Group dinner at Dim Sum Garden (upstairs)
7:00 pm	Social time TBD

Sunday, July 27th

Time	Location	Activity	Facilitators
Starting at 9:15 am	Friends Center MLK room	Breakfast	Coffee, pastries, and fruit (including vegan and GF options, and allergy labeling)
10 - 10:30 am	Friends Center MLK room	Check in from yesterday, review agenda for the day, identify notetakers and other roles
10:30 - 11:30 am	Friends Center MLK room	Small group discussion time
11:30 - 12:15 pm	Friends Center MLK room	Staying involved with LFP and incorporating it into everyday work
12:15 - 1:45 pm		Lunch on your own
1:45 - 2:45 pm	Friends Center MLK room	Small group discussion
2:45 - 4 pm	Friends Center MLK room	Next steps, closing circle

Small group sessions

Ideas for small group discussion
Building AI policies
Practical privacy toolkits and auditing resources
How to incorporate LFI into everyday work
Community defense / counter-surveillance
Repro rights and digital info concerns
Resources for kids – anti-AI and privacy
Time for case study discussions
Higher ed discussion time
Time for digital detox
Linux or Tails download and install
Powermapping: What resources exist within our community and how can we work more closely with them as we teach privacy in our communities? What coalitions exist or can be formed?
Narcan distro (Lawrence)
Liberatory library practices and entities (Nicole C)
Academic libraries anti-surveillance strategizing
Small group to discuss serving low-income public
Small group to discuss serving elders
Small group to discuss serving unhoused folks
Small group to discuss serving disabled folks
Small group to discuss serving immigrants/refugees
Small group to discuss serving international students
Small group to discuss adult services
Small group to discuss youth services
Small group to discuss serving college students
Small group to discuss serving college faculty and staff
Small group to discuss serving other library workers
Small group to discuss serving LIS students and faculty
Small group to discuss serving incarcerated patrons
Solidarity in action: using your contract/job description/policies for community defense
Best practices to center privacy in tech instruction. I know we’ve mentioned something like the pitch, but I would love to hear more about what has worked and what hasn’t worked for other folks.
Harm reduction as an innate function of librarianship. What does that look like across our systems and institutions?
How best to keep up with ongoing conversations about data privacy and intellectual freedom
Work through The Oracle of Transfeminist Technologies deck together