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Committees and appointments

ALA Intellectual Freedom Blog guest blogger - Bel Outwater (January 2020 - December 2020)

ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee Privacy Subcommittee - T.J. Lamanna

ALA Intellectual Freedom Committee Working Group On Facial Recognition - T.J. Lamanna, Alison Macrina, Maty Cropley

ALA Intellectual Freedom Roundtable Publications & Communications - Andrea Puglisi (2 year appointment, Jul 2019 - Jul 2021)

Georgia Library Association - Intellectual Freedom Committee - Bel Outwater

Library Association of CUNY - Privacy Roundtable - (Chair) Junior Tidal

LITA Top Tech Trends - T.J. Lamanna, Alison Macrina

Maryland Library Association - Intellectual Freedom Panel (Chair) - Sara Brown

Massachusetts Library Association - Andrea Puglisi (Executive Board Member, Public Relations Co-Chair)

Massachusetts Library System - Andrea Puglisi (MLS Project SET community, 2020 Digital Privacy Task force)

New England Library Association - Andrea Puglisi (Public Relations)

Oregon Library Association - Intellectual Freedom Committee - Ellie Avis

Pennsylvania Library Association - Youth Services Division (Chair) - Tess Wilson

PLA Digital Literacy Committee - Jeff Lambert

PLA - Public Libraries Advisory Committee (Member) - Tess Wilson

Privacy, Security, and Accessibility Committee (Marmot Library Network) - Nicole Becwar (Chair)

Tennessee Library Association Intellectual Freedom Committee - Bryan Neil Jones

Western MA Library Advocates - Andrea Puglisi (Executive Board Member)

YALSA - Midwinter Marketing and Local Arrangements Taskforce (Chair) - Tess Wilson

Talks

2020

January

Kimberly Trinh-Sy -- "Privacy Advocates for Today's Libraries." January 14, 2020. Hennepin County Library, Social Justice in Libraries Meeting. Presentation for HCL staff.

Maty Cropley -- "Zuck's Song." January 9, 2020, Boston Public Library, Public Librarians Monthly Meeting. Evolution of Facebook data collection products since 2009.

Alison Macrina -- LITA Top Tech Trends Panel. ALA Midwinter Conference 2020.

February

Alison Macrina -- Helsinki libraries, dates and locations TBD.

Andrea Puglisi -- "What is Library Freedom Project?" Simmons College: GSLIS West, Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, February 1, 2020

March

Alison Macrina -- Code4Lib 2020 keynote. March 9, 2020.

Chad Clark, Bryan Jones, and Junior Tidal -- "Pi-hole Privacy: Tampering is a Good Thing." March 8, 2020. Code4Lib, Pittsburgh, PA. Half-day preconference session on basic privacy and using Pi-Hole at Code4Lib 2020.

Bryan Neil Jones -- "Privacy Quest: Write Your Own Story." March 12, 2020. Library Collective, Knoxville, TN

Maty Cropley -- "HTTPS Encryption and Privacy Browser Extensions for BPL Circulating Chromebooks." March 12, 2020. Boston Public Library, Public Librarians Monthly Meeting.

Qiana Johnson & Nicole Becwar -- "They’re Collecting What?: Reading Vendor Privacy Policies With an Eye to Privacy Concerns." March 10, 2020. Colorado State Library Webinar Series (Patron Data Protection).

Nicole Becwar -- similar presentation to "They’re Collecting What?" March 19, 2020. CLiC Spring Workshop, Grand Junction, CO.

April

Ellie Avis & Alison Macrina -- "Strategies for teaching online safety, security and privacy" panel. Net Inclusion 2020. Portland, OR. April 7-9

Ellie Avis, Kelly McElroy, & Sara White -- "Protecting Privacy In Technology Decisions" -- A full-day preconference session at Oregon Library Association conference. Bend, OR. April 28

Alison Macrina -- ARLIS panel, title and time TBD. April 24-26, 2020.

May

Oscar Gittemeier -- Privacy Is Such a Drag -- A drag performance during Choose Privacy Week to share information about facial recognition software and opposition strategies.

T.J. Lamanna -- Troublesome Tech Trends -- Massachusetts Library Association Conference presentation on negatively disruptive tech trends.

Sara Brown and Josh Stone -- Threat modeling (title TBD) -- Maryland/Delaware Library Association conference

June

Symphony Bruce, Junior Tidal, and Nicole Becwar -- "Confidentiality, Concealment, and Consortia: A Practical Panel Presentation on Preserving Patron Privacy." ALA Annual.

October

Oscar Gittemeier, Bel Outwater, and Pat Ball -- Library Freedom Institute: Georgia Libraries Conference presentation about our experince in LFI

2019

January

Josh Stone -- Tours/Privacy Talks with Visitors of the Glass Room Experience (Jointly Hosted by SEFLIN and Florida Atlantic University). Every Thursday From January through February

Rebekah Eppley -- Digital Privacy: What Do You Have to Lose? Training for OPL Dimond Branch employees , January 11th, 2019 in conjunction with Glass Room Experience

Claire Lobdell -- "A harm-reduction approach to digital privacy." January 2019. NEASIS&T Conference, Worcester, MA.

Claire Lobdell -- "What does the internet know about me?: Understanding and combating digital surveillance." January 2019. Forbes Library, Northampton, MA. This was open to the general public at a public library.

February

Bryan Neil Jones and Megan Adovasio-Jones -- "Everyday Privacy." February 5, 2019. Half-day workshop Falling Water Regional Library staff.

Josh Stone -- "Internet Privacy Primer." February 13, 2019. Half-day workshop for Palm Beach County Library System Staff.

March

Josh Stone and Sara Brown -- "Internet and Smartphone Privacy Basics." March 12, 2019. SEFLIN Webinar

Claire Lobdell -- "A harm-reduction approach to digital privacy." March 2019. CWMARS Users' Council, West Springfield, MA. Invited talk for library directors.

Claire Lobdell -- "What does the internet know about me?" March 2019. GCC, Greenfield, MA. Two public workshops, one daytime, one evening, held during library privacy week, during which we also hosted the Glass Room Experience.

Kelly McElroy -- “Destroying Data and Technology in Support of Students.” (Invited keynote panelist.) Online Northwest, Portland OR, March 2019.

Alison Macrina and Bryan Neil Jones -- "Library Freedom Institute: A New Hope". LibrePlanet, Cambridge MA, March 23, 2019.

April

Josh Stone -- "Secure Messaging Apps: Privacy and Digital Communication." April 16, 2019. SEFLIN Webinar

Bryan Neil Jones -- "Privacy is dead. Can I have your password?" April 26, 2019. Presentation at Tennessee Library Association conference. Also used as a TLA staff development webinar.

Josh Stone -- "SEFLIN Privacy Primer." April 30, 2019. Two-hour workshop for The Society of the Four Arts staff.

Kelly McElroy, Claire Lobdell, and Megan Kinney -- “Preaching Digital Privacy at Academic Institutions: How to Raise Awareness and Take Action to Combat Surveillance at your School.” Association of College and Research Libraries Virtual Conference, April 2019. 36% acceptance rate. Downloaded from Scholars Archive 166 times as of July 22, 2019.

Claire Lobdell -- "Information security." April 2019. With Vince Longo. GCC, Greenfield, MA. This was a workshop for college staff about basic information security topics, co-taught with an IT staff member.

Claire Lobdell -- "A harm-reduction approach to digital privacy." April 2019. Simmons University, South Hadley, MA. This was an invited lesson for a Simmons University SLIS public libraries class.

Kelly McElroy -- “Digital Privacy and Security: Teaching Safer Habits.” With Sarah White. Washington Library Association/Oregon Library Association Joint Conference, Vancouver WA, April 2019.

May

Rebekah Eppley -- Keeping Your Personal Information Safe Online workshop for OPL patrons, May 1, 2019 to Kick off Chose Privacy Week at Dimond Branch

Josh Stone and Sara Brown -- "Privacy is for Everyone." May 2, 2019. Maryland Library Association Conference

Josh Stone -- "Don't Show Your Hand: Online Privacy Made Easy." May 16, 2019. Florida Library Association Conference

June

Kelly McElroy -- “Building Capacity for Digital Privacy.” With Madison Sullivan. June and August 2019. Two sessions as part of a series sponsored by a $2000 Helmer Professional Development Grant.

Josh Stone -- "Email Encryption and Security." June 18, 2019. SEFLIN Webinar

July

Josh Stone -- "Tools to Survive the Datapocalypse." July 12, 2019. NEFLIN Technology Conference

August

Josh Stone -- "Tools to Survive the Datapocalypse." August 1, 2019. SEFLIN Annual Regional Conference

Rebekah Eppley and Andrea Guzman -- Digital Privacy in Uncertain Times: Immigration and Allyship, August 20, 2019: workshop presented in Spanish and English at OPL's Chavez Branch

September

Josh Stone -- "Tools to Survive the Datapocalypse." September 18, 2019. Workshop for Florida Atlantic University Students (Obviously I fell in love with a title and have been running with it)

Claire Lobdell -- "What does the internet know about me?" September 19, 2019. Workshop at Clinton Public Library, Clinton, MA.

Bryan Neil Jones -- "Privacy for Libraries." September 27, 2019. Preconference for Arkansas Library Association / Southeastern Library Association, Hot Springs, AR.

Jonathan Hernández -- "Programas Colaborativos para defender la Privacidad en Bibliotecas September 7, 2019. Speak at Rancho Electrónico - II Encuentro de Tecnologías Biblio-Editoriales Libres.

October

Bryan Neil Jones and Tess Wilson -- "Privacy is Precious: Patron Data Rights and Responsibilities." October 2, 2019. Preconference Iowa Library Association / Nebraska Library Association / Nebraska School Library Association Joint Conference.

Megan Shanholtz -- "Batten the Hatches: Privacy and Security in Public Libraries." October 17, 2019. West Virginia Library Association Conference.

Josh Stone -- "Tools to Survive the Datapocalypse." (Retiring this title after this). October 24, 2019. Kentucky Library Association Conference

Claire Lobdell -- "Digital Privacy: The Rewards and Risks of Convenience." October 24, 2019. 2 workshops for visiting high school students as part of Greenfield Community College's STEM Week. Greenfield, MA.

Claire Lobdell -- "Online ad tracking." October 30, 2019. Greenfield Community College, Greenfield, MA. Part of a joint presentation for staff with people from the IT and computer science departments for cybersecurity month.

November

Lucia Cedeira Serantes -- "Learning About Your Digital Rights in the Digital Age: A hands-on workshop series for older adults" Workshop series as part of a winning grant proposal, TBD November 2019 https://actproject.ca/act/learning-about-your-digital-rights-in-the-digital-age-a-hands-on-workshop-series-for-older-adults-in-peterborough/

December

Sara Brown - "The Changing Landscape of Library Privacy" (discussion facilitation) - MD Tech Connect - Dec. 5

2018

Bryan Neil Jones and Megan Adovasio-Jones -- "Online Privacy Workshop." February 9, 2018. Half-day workshop for Buffalo River Regional Library staff.

Bryan Neil Jones -- Stanch the Data Bleeding." September 28, 2018. Tenn-Share Fall Conference lightning talk.

Claire Lobdell -- "The Ethics of Big Data Panel Discussion." October 2018. With Patricia Condon, Kevin Healey, and Hannah Hamalainen. UNH Manchester Sidore Lecture Series, Manchester, NH. Invited panelist.

Josh Stone -- "Introduction to Passphrases and Passwords" October 9, 2018. SEFLIN Webinar

Kelly McElroy -- “A Harm Reduction Approach: Applying the Library Freedom Institute in Our Work at OSULP.” November 2018. OSU Library Faculty Association Seminar Series.

Kelly McElroy -- “You Can’t Clean Up a Data Spill: Lessons from the Library Freedom Institute.” November 2018. OSU TRIAD, Corvallis, OR. Invited lecture to campus faculty group.

Kelly McElroy -- Student workshop with ASOSU Office of Advocacy peer advocates. This led to the students planning a privacy symposium for Winter 2020.

Bryan Neil Jones -- "PLMI Privacy Training." November 6, 2018. Privacy training for Public Library Management Institute.

Josh Stone -- "Threat Modeling: Understanding Your Risks and Privacy Needs." November 13, 2018. SEFLIN Webinar