Channel: Eccles Health Sciences Library Digital Publishing

Category: Education

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Description: The Library Bill of Rights states that: "All people, regardless of origin, age, background, or views, possess a right to privacy and confidentiality in their library use. Libraries should advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information." Yet, over the past decades, as networked technologies and linked data made possible great advances in information discovery and access, along side came erosions of reader privacy. State laws and library policies often protect library circulation data; however, most data about information sought and retrieved is no longer represented in circulation records but rather in server logs tagged with metadata that makes it possible to connect data across platforms and services and possible pushing library user data into the commercial consumer data market. Given these realities, library workers are organizing to reclaim reader privacy and make transparent data flows. In this keynote, Lisa will share her work as well as that of others in this area. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe is Professor and Coordinator for Information Literacy Services and Instruction in the University Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as well as affiliate faculty in the School of Information Sciences & Center for Global Studies. She is the PI on the IMLS-funded Prioritizing Privacy and the Mellon-funded Licensing Privacy projects. She served on the development team for the NISO Privacy Principles and is a co-author of the "A National Forum on Web Privacy and Web Analytics: Action Handbook." For more information about this year's retreat, visit the website: sites.google.com/gcloud.utah.edu/ualc-2021-retreat