LFI 2025/Week 10

Week 10: Responsible data policies and practices, vendor issues and data brokers, and scams and fraud

• Real time lecture: Wednesday July 9th, 12-2 pacific/ 1-3 mountain/ 2-4 central/ 3-5 eastern
• Zoom link: https://zoom.us/j/9129428892

Readings

Lots of readings this week. Get to what you get to!

• Physical Equivalent Privacy https://minds.wisconsin.edu/bitstream/handle/1793/81297/PhysicalEquivPrivacy4OA.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

• Data Life Cycles: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wepKodHvYpiCWcfF5kV7RNN8h50i6ssW/view

• Video: Your Journals Are Spying on You by Sarah Lamdan https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_objects/76537m18z

• Exposing Ex Libris from Librarians and Archivists with Palestine https://librarianswithpalestine.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/ExLibris1Color.pdf

• Gale Analytics/California Grand Jury story https://www.libraryjournal.com/?detailStory=california-grand-jury-data-analytics-threaten-patron-privacy

• Librarianship at the crossroads of ICE surveillance http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/

• LFP Privacy Policy Template https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a9n2SAYLua0ELQzAcJtbfpxWg2MRkucL7sM92aniNMo/edit?usp=sharing

• LFP Privacy Questions for Vendors https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/QUESTIONS-ABOUT-VENDOR-PRIVACY-PRACTICES.pdf

• LFP Data Privacy Best Practices for Librarians Tipsheet https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/LFP-Data-Privacy-Best-Practices-flyer.pdf

• LFP Vendor Policy Audit https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Qjol10lo0Qg086tOH3gDB9wiV6M6Z0KZ/view?usp=drive_link

• History of Mergers and Acquisitions in the Library Technology Industry https://librarytechnology.org/mergers/

• ALA Library Privacy Checklists http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/checklists

Tasks

• Week 8 Discord discussion