American Library Association
By Michael Robinson Chair, ALA-IFC Privacy Subcommittee (Note: This is the first post in a week-long online forum discussing how librarians, educators, and society can respect and defend students’ and minors’ privacy. Stop by chooseprivacyeveryday.org each day to read each
Choose Privacy Week 2016: Respecting and Defending Student Privacy
(What will your library do for Choose Privacy Week? Check out our resources and programming ideas for Choose Privacy Week and let us know what you’re doing at oif@ala.org.) Choose Privacy Week, the American Library Association’s annual event that promotes the
Choose Privacy Week 2016 Demands Respect for Minors’ Privacy
Is your library preparing to observe Choose Privacy Week 2016? Join the ALA’s IFC Privacy Subcommittee and the Office for Intellectual Freedom for a free webinar that will offer solid guidance on developing privacy programming that will educate and engage
By Michael Robinson Chair, IFC Privacy Subcommittee Head of Systems at the Consortium Library University of Alaska – Anchorage Libraries have a tradition of protecting the privacy of readers as the cornerstone of intellectual freedom. We recognize that freedom of
New Privacy Guidelines Encourage Libraries and Vendors to Work Together to Protect Reader Privacy
One Scholar’s Answer Atlantic writer Jathan Sadowski argues that we need to better understand the purpose and value of privacy in his discussion of legal scholar Julie Cohen’s new article, “What Privacy is For,“ which is forthcoming from the Harvard