NYLA Annual Meeting
- Jen Cannell, NYLA President, gave an overview of the year and how the pandemic affected NYLA.
- A tough year with many changes.
- Roger Reyes, NYLA Treasurer, provided an overview of the NYLA finances.
- Lower revenues and a tighter budget. Kudos to staff for managing expenses.
- Jeremy Johannesen, NYLA Executive Director, provided highlights to his written report.
- 1300+ people attended NYLA in Saratoga last year for the conference. 700+ this year for the virtual conference.
- Jeremy talked about changes to NYLA's professional development offerings, advocacy efforts, bills passed by NYS, staff changes, etc.
- Tim Furgal spoke about Pathways to Librarianship task force,which wants to expand the diversity of our library staff. People can join this effort. There will be a town hall about this on Dec. 3, 3 p.m. There will be more about this at the President's Forum on Friday.
Lunch & Learn: Privacy - Make it Happen!
Program Description: Privacy is a core value of librarianship, but protecting and promoting this value often feels like an overwhelming and onerous undertaking. We have a professional responsibility to protect the privacy and confidentiality of our users' data and information regarding library use, and state laws may require libraries to safeguard patron privacy. However, there has been until now been a lack of practical guidelines for enacting concrete measures to protect privacy in the library. The Institute of Museum and Library Services, in partnership with the American Library Association, has sponsored the creation of Privacy Field Guides. During this interactive session, Erin Berman (@mohawklibrarian) will discuss these guides, along with other privacy-protecting tools and best practices. Join us to discuss privacy concerns and ask questions in a judgment-free zone, and leave empowered to improve privacy measures in your library.
- What does privacy mean to us? People shared many ideas in chat.
- People do care about privacy. Once they figured out how their privacy was being infringed, they were enraged.
- A privacy should be called data management and security policy, because that is what the policy tries to manage.
- The right to privacy is the right to open iniry without having the subject of one's interest examined or scrutinized by other.
- We do not compete with Amazon. How we operate is different. We are the last bastion of privacy, but we are losing our ability to maintain the privacy of our patrons.
- Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights
- America’s Most Dangerous Librarians (2008)
- How do we do our work and provide the information our patrons want, while also maintaining patron privacy?
- Libraries often say they believe in privacy, while also collecting patron data.
- National Web Privacy Forum (2018-2019) - white paper and guidebook
- Library Freedom Institute, a 6-month program
- The rise of surveillance capitalism
- Vendors are adapting tools meant for other industries for libraries, which may not have privacy built in.
- Library administrators need to be honest with staff and their boards about issues of privacy with products the library uses.
- Interesting idea - creating an equity service model
- Conduct a privacy audit, which can take a long time to complete (perhaps over a year for a large library). Start with identifying what areas of the library touch/collect user data. What data is shared? How long is data kept? How is it used? Etc. This is continual process.
- ALA Library Privacy Guidelines
- San Jose Public Library Privacy Audit
- Cornell University Library Privacy Services
- How the Surveillance State Destroys the Lives of Poor Whites and People of Color (2018)
- Choose Privacy Every Day
- Guidelines on Contact Tracing, Health Checks, and Library Users’ Privacy (June 2020)
- NYS Section 4509: Library records - contains information on privacy
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