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Revision as of 18:42, 14 January 2025
Contents
Library Freedom Institute
Library Freedom Institute (LFI) is a training program for library workers focused on privacy, intellectual freedom, and critical technology. We teach librarians the skills necessary to support information democracy in the 21st Century; from educating community members, to installing privacy software, to influencing local policy.
General course information and resources
- [NEED LINK] Lecture video links]
- Code of Conduct
- Discord: A discussion platform that cohort members get invited to when LFI begins.
- Zoom video conference room: A private Zoom room that cohort members get the address to when LFI begins.
Schedule and curriculum
Schedule overview
| Week | Date and time | Topic | Lecturer |
| 1 | TBD | Introduction to this course and each other | |
| 2 | TBD | What is information democracy? And what are the problems we face? | |
| 3 | TBD | Threats to speech and privacy in libraries (and their origins) and threat modeling | |
| 4 | TBD | What are we fighting for? Messaging and talking points | |
| 5 | TBD | Policies and practices | |
| 6 | TBD | Vendor issues | |
| 7 | TBD | Technology for liberation, or at least just better passwords | |
| 8 | TBD | Technology practices and strategies, second week | |
| 9 | TBD | HOLD FOR IN PERSON WEEKEND | |
| 10 | TBD | HOLD FOR OFF WEEK FOLLOWING IN PERSON WEEKEND | |
| 11 | TBD | Privacy audits and resisting data for data's sake, new data-driven business models, and making information democracy into a sustainable long term practice | |
| 12 | TBD | Who benefits from surveillance and censorship? Tech billionaires and others we are up against | |
| 13 | TBD | Did we miss anything? Policing, artificial intelligence, social media, reproductive health and privacy, anti-doxxing, immigrant threat models? | |
| 14 | TBD | Closing week and final project presentations |
Weekly curriculum
[WEEK 1 LINK]
[WEEK 2 LINK]
[WEEK 3 LINK]
[WEEK 4 LINK]
[WEEK 5 LINK]
[WEEK 6 LINK]
[WEEK 7 LINK]
[WEEK 8 LINK]
[WEEK 9 LINK]
[WEEK 10 LINK]
[WEEK 11 LINK]
[WEEK 12 LINK]
[WEEK 13 LINK]
[WEEK 14 LINK]
In-person weekend subjects
- Powermapping
- Teaching and training others (staff and patrons)
- Building coalitions for support
- Final project work
