LFI 2025/Week 10

Week 10: Responsible data and intellectual freedom policies, and vendor issues

• 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
• Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Q37cxHtcjqcaljFwO00NTgV8zjzjNPtn7qNjpNc5fHE/edit?usp=sharing

Readings

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

Data and vendor policy stuff

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

Data and vendor policy resources

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

Intellectual freedom policy resources

• BookRiot materials challenge template https://bookriot.com/book-censorship-news-may-6-2022/
• LFP responding to 1st amendment audits doc https://libraryfreedom.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Responding-to-First-Amendment-Audits-One-Pager3.png
• LFP behavioral policy survey https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/3/form/view/f6487cead26dbc2d3c70beb004bf7959/embed/

Tasks

• Week 8 Discord discussion