LFI Course Materials/Week one
Contents
Week 1: Introduction
Real time lecture: May 24th 10 am Pacific/1 pm Eastern
Overview
Welcome everyone! We’re so thrilled to be starting Library Freedom Institute with such an excellent cohort! This week, we’ll be getting acquainted with the course, including curriculum, technology, goals, and each other.
Themes
- Surveillance capitalism
- Harm reduction
- Who holds power on the internet
- Privacy strategies and tools
Small groups
Small group makeup
- Group 1
- Group 2
- Group 3
- Group 4
- Group 5
Small group outcomes
Every group will work together on components of a final project. This final project should be
Overall outcomes for this cohort
- Learn to use privacy software that can be installed on both patron machines and public library workstations
- Teach your own train-the-trainer workshops to other librarians in your region.
- Approach members of your community regarding privacy concerns and teach privacy-related community workshops.
- Use your new role as a Privacy Advocate to influence policy and infrastructure.
- Encourage community engagement with privacy policy issues
- Work with your small group to develop a privacy plan that can be implemented in your library or others
Syllabus and weekly layout
- Undergo intensive training (6 months, 5 hours/week)
- Weekly commitments: small group work, lecture, discussion, readings, and tasks
- Tasks are things you’re expected to complete every week. There aren’t other assignments except for the final projects you’ll present with your small group. We’ll check in every few weeks about the status of those projects, and when that happens you can share drafts or just outlines or thoughts.
- Let Alison know if you need to be absent from one of the real-time lectures, or if you need to miss a whole week for any reason.
- Review code of conduct: https://github.com/alisonLFP/libraryfreedominstitute/blob/master/coursedocs/LFI-coc.docx
Class technology
- Discourse messageboard: libraryfreedom.chat (register an account)
- Zoom video/audio chat/recordings (Zoom meeting ID 912-942-8892)
- Riseup mailing list: library-freedom-institute@lists.riseup.net
- Wiki: libraryfreedom.wiki (register an account)
Please note that all class technology is publicly accessible! That means that the mailing list archives, messageboard, and wiki can all be viewed by anyone. I’ve set it up this way so that the materials we create can easily be shared, but also, I understand that sometimes we might want to talk amongst ourselves, so I’ve created a “private” category on the Discourse messageboard that’s only viewable to our group. You can use this category whenever you want to talk about something that you don’t want the whole world to see.
Learning objectives (this week only)
- Meet other cohort members
- Learn about what other cohort members want to achieve in this course and share our own thoughts
- Review themes and outcomes
- Set personal goals
- Understand small group work strategy
Readings
- The Surveillant Assemblage, Kevin D. Haggerty and Richard V. Ericson:
Guest lecturer
No guest this week; Alison will lead the lecture
Discussion
What are your personal goals for this course?
Tasks
- Readings and discussion forum
- Connect with your small groups and start thinking about who will work on what (small group work sharing plans due the week of June 3rd)
- Create discourse and wiki accounts
- Read through materials on libraryfreedom.wiki
