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==== Overview ====
 
==== Overview ====
While library workers have long considered privacy as a core value of librarianship, our practices often leave a lot to be desired. Strong privacy policies can be a foundation on which better privacy practices are built. This week, we'll talk about the components of a good privacy policy, addressing things like data collection and storage, law enforcement requests, futureproofing, and state laws governing library records. We'll also discuss implementing privacy policies, as well as patron education. We'll also begin talking about low-level best practices for privacy.  
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While library workers have long considered privacy as a core value of librarianship, our practices often leave a lot to be desired. Strong privacy policies can be a foundation on which better privacy practices are built. This week, we'll talk about the components of a good privacy policy, addressing things like data collection and storage, law enforcement requests, futureproofing, and US state laws governing library records. We'll also discuss implementing privacy policies, as well as patron education.
  
 
==== Readings ====
 
==== Readings ====
* Library privacy policy template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a9n2SAYLua0ELQzAcJtbfpxWg2MRkucL7sM92aniNMo/edit#heading=h.9v96ldaenxun
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* LFP library privacy policy template: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a9n2SAYLua0ELQzAcJtbfpxWg2MRkucL7sM92aniNMo/edit#heading=h.9v96ldaenxun
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* ALA guidelines on developing or revising a privacy policy http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/toolkit/policy
 
* ALA Library Privacy Checklists: http://www.ala.org/advocacy/privacy/checklists
 
* 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
 
* Protecting Patron Privacy: Librarians, Vendors, and Patrons Each Have a Role to Play: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1330&context=collaborativelibrarianship
* Read your own library's privacy policy  
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* Read your own library's privacy policy (or another library's privacy policy of your choosing)
  
==== Discussion ====
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==== Discussion prompt ====
* What are the elements of a good privacy policy?
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* How does your library's policy (or the policy you chose) measure up to the best practices? (note: you don't have to identify the library in the discussion)
* Enforcement
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* What challenges might you face trying to update your library's policy to meet best practices? Implementation? Enforcement? Making the policy a priority at all?
* ideas for getting started
 
* ideas for future action
 
  
 
==== Tasks ====
 
==== Tasks ====
 
* Lecture, readings, discussion forum
 
* Lecture, readings, discussion forum
 
https://twitter.com/KyleKCourtney/status/1384875670363385857
 
 
paper shredding, phone calls, hold slips
 
 
Law enforcement/CCTV readings during privacy policy stuff
 
 
glossary for understanding privacy policy and TOS
 
 
task -- how does your library's policy stack up. if you don't want to use your library's pick another
 

Revision as of 20:44, 27 May 2021

Week 3: Privacy policies and best practices

Overview

While library workers have long considered privacy as a core value of librarianship, our practices often leave a lot to be desired. Strong privacy policies can be a foundation on which better privacy practices are built. This week, we'll talk about the components of a good privacy policy, addressing things like data collection and storage, law enforcement requests, futureproofing, and US state laws governing library records. We'll also discuss implementing privacy policies, as well as patron education.

Readings

Discussion prompt

  • How does your library's policy (or the policy you chose) measure up to the best practices? (note: you don't have to identify the library in the discussion)
  • What challenges might you face trying to update your library's policy to meet best practices? Implementation? Enforcement? Making the policy a priority at all?

Tasks

  • Lecture, readings, discussion forum