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Week 4: Vendors
- Real time lecture: June 10th 9:30 - 11:30 Pacific/12:30 - 2:30 Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892
Overview
While librarians have always considered privacy among our most sacred core values, our in-library practices leave a lot to be desired. Recent privacy issues with vendors like Kanopy, Lynda.com, and Gale Analytics have brought to light the abysmal privacy practices of library vendors. And while it's easy to criticize these outside parties, our internal privacy policies could also use a lot of work.
- vendor violations, some of the history and current - review vendor agreements (then breakout group discussion) - advocacy work - where ALA is in this - clarivate and other mergers, political and financial history
Readings
- Vendor privacy scorecard: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/LFI2/finalprojects/Library%20Freedom-%20Vendor%20Scorecard-%20110719.pdf
- Why vendor privacy Q&A (click the download button on github): https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/LFI2/finalprojects/WhyPrivacyLicenseQ%26A-Qiana_Nicole.docx
- Library privacy policy template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a9n2SAYLua0ELQzAcJtbfpxWg2MRkucL7sM92aniNMo/edit#heading=h.9v96ldaenxun
- ALA Library Privacy Checklists: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/checklists
- Protecting Patron Privacy: Librarians, Vendors, and Patrons Each Have a Role to Play: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1330&context=collaborativelibrarianship
- San Jose Public Library Vendor Security Analysis results: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1jdPwQeC5RAUbBWLAhyIYxWHa0pTdVObc
- EFF’s How to Assess Vendors’ Data Security: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/01/how-assess-vendors-data-security
Discussion
TBD
Tasks
- Lecture, readings, discussion forum
- Schedule final project checkin with Alison
collection of vendor policies saved in docs
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1330&context=collaborativelibrarianship
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jdPwQeC5RAUbBWLAhyIYxWHa0pTdVObc
https://www.eff.org/files/2018/01/08/checklist_-_how_to_assess_a_vendors_data_security.pdf
Trying to get vendors to answer questions about what data they collect/ what they do with it -- they dontknow or they wont tell you
http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2019/ice-surveillance/
Pick a few things to cover this with in the class
Vendor agreements https://bceln.ca/licensed-resources/licences-terms https://www.amigos.org/sites/default/files/orangeboy_library_agreement.pdf https://ehlbc.ca/licensed-resources/licences-terms https://concan.ca/licensed-resources/licences-terms
