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=== Week 4: Vendors === | === Week 4: Vendors === | ||
| − | * Real time lecture: | + | * Real time lecture: June 10th 9:30 - 11:30 Pacific/12:30 - 2:30 Eastern on Zoom https://zoom.us/j/9129428892 |
| − | * | + | * Slides: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ToZ8iUioQROo2GsCmn9QQWy5qwtQk6Ei/view?usp=sharing |
| + | * Recording | ||
==== Overview ==== | ==== Overview ==== | ||
There's really no other way to put this: we've got a vendor privacy crisis. Careless with patron data at best, collaborationist with the ICE deportation machine at worst, our vendors -- especially the biggest ones that we rely on the most -- are not representing our library values. The trend of big vendors increasing their portfolio of mergers and acquisitions means bigger, more powerful, even less accountable companies, collecting enormous datasets, adding more and more shady analytics products and tools, and effectively building highly sophisticated surveillance systems. There are increasing efforts at resistance to these vendors, but we need more leadership, bigger collective efforts, and more radical demands. This week, we'll talk about the vendor problems and our sites of resistance. | There's really no other way to put this: we've got a vendor privacy crisis. Careless with patron data at best, collaborationist with the ICE deportation machine at worst, our vendors -- especially the biggest ones that we rely on the most -- are not representing our library values. The trend of big vendors increasing their portfolio of mergers and acquisitions means bigger, more powerful, even less accountable companies, collecting enormous datasets, adding more and more shady analytics products and tools, and effectively building highly sophisticated surveillance systems. There are increasing efforts at resistance to these vendors, but we need more leadership, bigger collective efforts, and more radical demands. This week, we'll talk about the vendor problems and our sites of resistance. | ||
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==== Readings ==== | ==== Readings ==== | ||
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* Where do you have power? Where could you build power? | * Where do you have power? Where could you build power? | ||
* What are the challenges to standing up to these vendor practices? | * What are the challenges to standing up to these vendor practices? | ||
| − | * Discussion link for this week: https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/cc- | + | * Discussion link for this week: https://libraryfreedom.chat/t/cc-1-week-4-vendors/843 |
==== Tasks ==== | ==== Tasks ==== | ||
* Lecture, readings, discussion forum | * Lecture, readings, discussion forum | ||
* If you're planning to do a final project, schedule a 1:1 checkin with Alison | * If you're planning to do a final project, schedule a 1:1 checkin with Alison | ||
