If the crises and disasters of recent years have taught us anything, it’s that libraries change according to circumstance. Data is a critical component to successfully adapting to those changes. How much data you collect and how you use it as your organization changes can quickly and easily undermine privacy—a core value of libraries and the seventh article in the ALA’s Library Bill of Rights.
How can your library continue to evolve without sacrificing privacy? With a privacy audit. This interactive workshop will help you get started on a privacy audit in your library. Don’t worry if you don’t have the ability to do a privacy audit yourself. We’ll also include things you can do to advocate for getting a privacy audit done at your library.
At the end of this interactive workshop, attendees will be able to:
- Explain what a privacy audit is and why it is important to perform at a library.
- Identify areas in their library that should be audited.
- Use a set of core questions to audit various areas of the library that interact with user data.
- Use ALA’s Privacy Guidelines and Checklists effectively.
- Tell the library’s audit story.
Julie Oborny is the Web Services Manager for San José Public Library (SJPL). She is passionate about library privacy, intellectual freedom, and technology literacy. Julie currently chairs the IFC Privacy Subcommittee and plays an active role in the planning team for the Vendor and Library Privacy Community of Practice. She started her professional focus in the area of library privacy by working on the design and development team for the acclaimed Virtual Privacy Lab—a free resource that helps people optimize their online privacy. She is also an author of a chapter on social network sites, surveillance, and RFID in the book Protecting Patron Privacy: A LITA Guide. Resources developed in part by the Privacy Subcommittee and in partnership with the library privacy community can be found on the ALA and Choose Privacy Everyday websites.
Erin Berman is a fierce privacy advocate, formerly leading the American Library Association’s Privacy Subcommittee. Erin got her start with ALA as an Emerging Leader in 2014 and quickly joined the Rainbow Roundtable as their Fundraising Chair. In 2016, she was named one of Library Journal’s Movers and Shakers. She now serves as the Rainbow Round Table Councilor and sits on the ALA’s Committee on Professional Ethics and the Nominating Committee. Currently, she works as the Division Director of the Learning Group for the Alameda County Library in California.
This event will be hosted in Zoom. Automatic captions will be enabled for this event. This event will be recorded, and registrants will receive access to the recording within a day after the event ends.
If you have questions or requests regarding accessibility, contact us at ce@ala.org or at 312-280-5100.
