Over at the Center for Information Policy Research, we've posted the final report for the IMLS-funded project “Library Values & Privacy in our National Digital Strategies: Field guides, Convenings, and Conversations” which I've been working on over the past year with Bonnie Tijerina at Data & Society. From…
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Challenges for libraries in the face of a changing information environment: Library 2.0, intellectual freedom, librarian ethics
“Privacy” Issue of Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy
I'm thrilled to announce that the "Privacy" special issue of the American Library Association’s Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy (JIFP) has now been published. The issue can be accessed here, and subscription information is here. Here is my introduction to the…
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New Project: Assessing the Implementation of CIPA-Mandated Internet Filtering in U.S. Public Libraries
I'm excited to launch a new project with my colleague Dr. Nadine Kozak on "Assessing the Implementation of CIPA-Mandated Internet Filtering in U.S. Public Libraries," for which we have received funding from the UW-Milwaukee "Research Growth Initiative" internal grant program.…
Call for Papers: “Privacy” Issue of Journal of Intellectual Freedom and Privacy (Spring 2017)
[UDPATE: The "Privacy" special issue has now been published. Details here.] I'm pleased to announce I am the guest editor for the Spring 2017 issue of the American Library Association's Journal of Intellectual Freedom & Privacy (JIFP). The issue's theme is…
ALISE Webinar: Ethics in Library Research Data Services
[et_pb_section admin_label="section"][et_pb_row admin_label="row"][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text admin_label="Text" background_layout="light" text_orientation="left" use_border_color="off" border_color="#ffffff" border_style="solid"] Today, I'm participating in an ALISE webinar on "Ethics in Library Research Data Services": Data is instrumental to the scientific process. We live in an era of “big data” and…
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Choose Privacy Week 2016 Webinar: Raising Privacy Awareness in Your Library and in Your Community
I’m once again thrilled to be contributing to an American Library Association (ALA) webinar on "Raising Privacy Awareness in Your Library and in Your Community" in preparation for Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7, 2016). Details and my slides on my contribution on "Sparking Privacy…
Choose Privacy Week 2015: Toward a set of Best Practices to Protect Patron Privacy in Library 2.0
In celebration of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age, I've written the following guest post for the CPW blog: Toward a set of Best Practices…
How I am Celebrating Choose Privacy Week 2015
Today marks the start of Choose Privacy Week, the annual initiative (always May 1-7) of the American Library Association that invites the public into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. Along with Center for Information Policy Research, I've been a proud…
Joining NISO Project on Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO), a non-profit standards organization that develops, maintains and publishes technical standards related to publishing, bibliographic and library applications, has been awarded a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to develop a Consensus Framework to…
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New Project on Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Libraries (and some aftermath)
This week, at the Center for Information Policy Research, I launched a new project on Privacy and Cloud Computing in Public Libraries: Public libraries are increasingly turning to cloud computing solutions to satisfy their technological needs in order to best…
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