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=== Week 1: Introduction ===
 
=== Week 1: Introduction ===
* Real time lecture: March 9, 12 Pacific/2 Eastern
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* Real time lecture: March 9, 11 Pacific/2 Eastern on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
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* Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting Library Freedom Institute with such an excellent cohort! This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other.   
 
* Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting Library Freedom Institute with such an excellent cohort! This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other.   
  
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* Surveillance capitalism
 
* Surveillance capitalism
 
* Harm reduction
 
* Harm reduction
* Who holds power on the internet
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* Power on the internet
 
* Privacy strategies and tools
 
* Privacy strategies and tools
 
* Individual vs collective action
 
* Individual vs collective action
  
===== Small groups =====
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===== Outcomes for this cohort =====
====== Sometimes, we'll work in small groups. When we do, they'll be these groups. ======
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* Learn to use privacy software that can be installed on patron machines or library workstations
* Group 1:
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* Teach your own train-the-trainer workshops to other librarians in your region.
* Group 2:
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* Approach members of your community regarding privacy concerns and teach privacy-related community workshops.
* Group 3:
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* Use your new role as a Privacy Advocate to influence policy and infrastructure.
* Group 4:
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* Encourage community engagement with privacy policy issues
* Group 5:
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* Work with your small group to develop a privacy plan that can be implemented in your library or others
* Group 6:
 
  
====== Final projects ======
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===== Final projects =====
 
The final project will be a comprehensive privacy plan for a library. Every group will work together on components of the final project. This final project should choose from and expand on the following components:
 
The final project will be a comprehensive privacy plan for a library. Every group will work together on components of the final project. This final project should choose from and expand on the following components:
 
* A library privacy policy and/or example vendor agreement
 
* A library privacy policy and/or example vendor agreement
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* Other ideas that the group wishes to add can be submitted when the group submits their roles, or can be added later
 
* Other ideas that the group wishes to add can be submitted when the group submits their roles, or can be added later
  
===== Outcomes for this cohort =====
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Your final project should be practically-focused and should reflect your own interests! You can see examples of the last cohort's final projects on the [https://libraryfreedom.org/index.php/resources/ LFP website].
* Learn to use privacy software that can be installed on both patron machines and public library workstations
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* Teach your own train-the-trainer workshops to other librarians in your region.
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===== Small groups for final projects (we can reorganize as needed) =====
* Approach members of your community regarding privacy concerns and teach privacy-related community workshops.
+
* Group 1: Frans Albarillo, Katie Anderson, Eliza Bettinger, Callan Bignoli (academic librarians part one)
* Use your new role as a Privacy Advocate to influence policy and infrastructure.
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* Group 2: Meredith Farkas, Ray Pun, Laura Savage, Mark Swartz, James Watson (academic librarians part two)
* Encourage community engagement with privacy policy issues
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* Group 3: Jennifer Bruneau, Emily Mitchell, Alexandra Bernson, Marisa Reichert, Nancy Shah (public librarians east)
* Work with your small group to develop a privacy plan that can be implemented in your library or others
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* Group 4: Stephanie Howell, Sam Helmick, Douglas King, Heather Boothby Meyer, Holly Mills, Ryan Tackabury (public librarians west/midwest)
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* Group 5: Athanasia Fitos, Robin Fay, Mack Freeman (public librarians south)
  
 
===== Syllabus and weekly layout =====
 
===== Syllabus and weekly layout =====
* Undergo intensive training (6 months, 5 hours/week)
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* Undergo intensive training (4 months, 5 hours/week)
* Weekly commitments: small group work, lecture, discussion, readings, and tasks
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* Weekly commitments: lecture, discussion, readings, tasks, small group work.
 
* Tasks are things you’re expected to complete every week. There aren’t other assignments except for the final projects you’ll present with your small group. We’ll check in every few weeks about the status of those projects, and when that happens you can share drafts or just outlines or thoughts.  
 
* Tasks are things you’re expected to complete every week. There aren’t other assignments except for the final projects you’ll present with your small group. We’ll check in every few weeks about the status of those projects, and when that happens you can share drafts or just outlines or thoughts.  
 
* Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason.  
 
* Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason.  
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* Riseup mailing list: [email protected]
 
* Riseup mailing list: [email protected]
 
* Wiki: libraryfreedom.wiki (register an account)
 
* Wiki: libraryfreedom.wiki (register an account)
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* Vimeo archive of lectures: https://vimeo.com/libraryfreedominstitute
 
Please note that all class technology is publicly accessible! That means that the mailing list archives, messageboard, and wiki can all be viewed by anyone. I’ve set it up this way so that the materials we create can easily be shared, but also, I understand that sometimes we might want to talk amongst ourselves, so I’ve created a “private” category on the Discourse messageboard that’s only viewable to our group. You can use this category whenever you want to talk about something that you don’t want the whole world to see.  
 
Please note that all class technology is publicly accessible! That means that the mailing list archives, messageboard, and wiki can all be viewed by anyone. I’ve set it up this way so that the materials we create can easily be shared, but also, I understand that sometimes we might want to talk amongst ourselves, so I’ve created a “private” category on the Discourse messageboard that’s only viewable to our group. You can use this category whenever you want to talk about something that you don’t want the whole world to see.  
  
 
==== This week only! ====
 
==== This week only! ====
===== Learning objectives =====
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===== Readings =====  
* Meet other cohort members
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We won't be discussing these readings until week 2! But there are a lot, so you have two weeks to read them.
* Learn about what other cohort members want to achieve in this course and share our own thoughts
 
* Review themes and outcomes
 
* Learn about the history and mission of LFP
 
* Set personal goals
 
* Understand small group work strategy
 
  
===== Readings =====
 
 
[https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3700/v17/bakgrunnsnotat/the_surveillant_assemblage.pdf The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson]
 
[https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/ifi/INF3700/v17/bakgrunnsnotat/the_surveillant_assemblage.pdf The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson]
  
[https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html Human Contact is Now a Luxury Good]
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[https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1621&context=asc_papers Review of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne]
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[https://www.eff.org/cyberspace-independence A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow] (read before reading The Californian Ideology)
  
[https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/04/10/opinion/internet-privacy-terms.html?rref=collection%2Fseriescollection%2Fnew-york-times-privacy-project&action=click&contentCollection=opinion&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=5&pgtype=collection The New Terminology for Privacy]
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[https://www.metamute.org/editorial/articles/californian-ideology The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron] (read after reading A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace)
  
===== Guest lecturer =====
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[https://www.wired.com/1997/02/ffharaway/ You are Cyborg (profile of Donna Haraway)]
No guest this week; Alison will lead the lecture
 
  
===== Discussion =====
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[https://gist.github.com/kolber/2131643 Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace by humdog]
How do you see the surveillant assemblage at work in our lives?
 
  
If human contact is becoming a luxury good, what are the implications for privacy?
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[https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/shoshana-zuboff-age-of-surveillance-capitalism-book-review/ None of Your Business (review of Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism]
  
What terms or concepts were new and noteworthy to you in "The New Terminology for Privacy"? Which of these do you want to learn more about in LFI?
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[https://www.eurozine.com/sad-by-design/ Sad by Design by Geert Lovink]
  
What are your personal goals for this course?
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[https://logicmag.io/bodies/another-network-is-possible/ Another Network is Possible by April Glaser]
  
===== Tasks =====
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[https://www.internetsociety.org/internet/history-internet/brief-history-internet/ A Brief History of the Internet (from Internet Society)]
* Lecture, readings and discussion forum
 
* Connect with your small groups and start thinking about who will work on what (small group work sharing plans due the week of June 3rd)
 
* Create discourse and wiki accounts
 
* Read through materials on libraryfreedom.wiki
 
  
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[https://mashable.com/2014/06/05/edward-snowden-revelations/ The Ten Biggest Revelations from the Edward Snowden Leaks]
  
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===== Guest lecturer =====
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No guest this week; Alison will lead the lecture
  
final projects can be
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===== Discussion =====
- one staff training
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* What are your personal goals for this course?
- one conf talk
 
- one infra thing for your library
 
- one external thing
 
how to make into graphic?
 
  
training on chat and wiki
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===== Tasks =====
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* Lecture, readings and discussion forum
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* Create libraryfreedom.chat and libraryfreedom.wiki accounts (let Alison know if you need training)
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* Read through materials on libraryfreedom.wiki
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* Start readings for next week
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* Your travel for Philly should be booked by now!!!

Latest revision as of 17:46, 9 March 2020

Week 1: Introduction[edit]

  • Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting Library Freedom Institute with such an excellent cohort! This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other.

Course overview[edit]

Course themes[edit]
  • LFP mission and history
  • Surveillance capitalism
  • Harm reduction
  • Power on the internet
  • Privacy strategies and tools
  • Individual vs collective action
Outcomes for this cohort[edit]
  • Learn to use privacy software that can be installed on patron machines or library workstations
  • Teach your own train-the-trainer workshops to other librarians in your region.
  • Approach members of your community regarding privacy concerns and teach privacy-related community workshops.
  • Use your new role as a Privacy Advocate to influence policy and infrastructure.
  • Encourage community engagement with privacy policy issues
  • Work with your small group to develop a privacy plan that can be implemented in your library or others
Final projects[edit]

The final project will be a comprehensive privacy plan for a library. Every group will work together on components of the final project. This final project should choose from and expand on the following components:

  • A library privacy policy and/or example vendor agreement
  • A privacy class
  • A privacy program that isn't a class
  • A display about privacy
  • A flyer or poster about a privacy concept
  • A staff training
  • Something focused on privacy work outside of the library walls, like a letter to a legislator
  • Other ideas that the group wishes to add can be submitted when the group submits their roles, or can be added later

Your final project should be practically-focused and should reflect your own interests! You can see examples of the last cohort's final projects on the LFP website.

Small groups for final projects (we can reorganize as needed)[edit]
  • Group 1: Frans Albarillo, Katie Anderson, Eliza Bettinger, Callan Bignoli (academic librarians part one)
  • Group 2: Meredith Farkas, Ray Pun, Laura Savage, Mark Swartz, James Watson (academic librarians part two)
  • Group 3: Jennifer Bruneau, Emily Mitchell, Alexandra Bernson, Marisa Reichert, Nancy Shah (public librarians east)
  • Group 4: Stephanie Howell, Sam Helmick, Douglas King, Heather Boothby Meyer, Holly Mills, Ryan Tackabury (public librarians west/midwest)
  • Group 5: Athanasia Fitos, Robin Fay, Mack Freeman (public librarians south)
Syllabus and weekly layout[edit]
  • Undergo intensive training (4 months, 5 hours/week)
  • Weekly commitments: lecture, discussion, readings, tasks, small group work.
  • Tasks are things you’re expected to complete every week. There aren’t other assignments except for the final projects you’ll present with your small group. We’ll check in every few weeks about the status of those projects, and when that happens you can share drafts or just outlines or thoughts.
  • Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason.
  • Review code of conduct.
Class technology[edit]

Please note that all class technology is publicly accessible! That means that the mailing list archives, messageboard, and wiki can all be viewed by anyone. I’ve set it up this way so that the materials we create can easily be shared, but also, I understand that sometimes we might want to talk amongst ourselves, so I’ve created a “private” category on the Discourse messageboard that’s only viewable to our group. You can use this category whenever you want to talk about something that you don’t want the whole world to see.

This week only![edit]

Readings[edit]

We won't be discussing these readings until week 2! But there are a lot, so you have two weeks to read them.

The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson

Review of Dark Matters: On the Surveillance of Blackness by Simone Browne

A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace by John Perry Barlow (read before reading The Californian Ideology)

The Californian Ideology by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron (read after reading A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace)

You are Cyborg (profile of Donna Haraway)

Pandora's Vox: On Community in Cyberspace by humdog

None of Your Business (review of Shoshana Zuboff's The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Sad by Design by Geert Lovink

Another Network is Possible by April Glaser

A Brief History of the Internet (from Internet Society)

The Ten Biggest Revelations from the Edward Snowden Leaks

Guest lecturer[edit]

No guest this week; Alison will lead the lecture

Discussion[edit]
  • What are your personal goals for this course?
Tasks[edit]
  • Lecture, readings and discussion forum
  • Create libraryfreedom.chat and libraryfreedom.wiki accounts (let Alison know if you need training)
  • Read through materials on libraryfreedom.wiki
  • Start readings for next week
  • Your travel for Philly should be booked by now!!!