Libraries and Privacy Literacy

• ALA. Privacy. Article VII of the Library Bill of Rights counsels that libraries should "advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy, safeguarding all library use data, including personally identifiable information."

• Chisholm, A.E. & Hartman-Caverly, S.( 2020)  Privacy Literacy Instruction Practices in Academic Libraries  

• Chisholm, A.E.(2019)   If Not Us, Who? Privacy Literacy Instruction in Academic Libraries” Presentation. 

• Choose Privacy Every Day

• Coombs, K. A. (2005). Protecting User Privacy in the Age of Digital Libraries. Computers in Libraries, 25(6), 16-20.

• Coombs, K. A. (2004). Walking a tightrope: Academic libraries and privacy. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30(6), 493-498.

• Falk, H. (2004). Privacy in libraries. The Electronic Library, 22(3), 281-284.

  Jones, B. M. (2010). Libraries, technology, and the culture of privacy. Library Technology Reports, 46(8), 8.

  Library Freedom Project  https://libraryfreedomproject.org/

• Givens, C. L. (2015). Information privacy fundamentals for librarians and information professionals. New York, NY: Rowman and Littlefield.

• Magnuson, L. (2011). Promoting privacy: Online and reputation management as an information literacy skill. College & Research Libraries News, 72(3), 137-140.

• Molnar, D., & Wagner, D. (2004, October). Privacy and security in library RFID: Issues, practices, and architectures. In Proceedings of the 11th ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (pp. 210-219). ACM.

• Moallem, A. (2017, July). Do You Really Trust “Privacy Policy” or “Terms of Use” Agreements Without Reading Them?. In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (pp. 290-295). 

• Shuler, J. A. (2004). Privacy and academic libraries: Widening the frame of discussion. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30(2), 157-159.

• Wissinger, C. L. (2017). Privacy Literacy: From Theory to Practice. Communications in Information Literacy, 11(2), 378-389. 

• Data Privacy Project

• Digital Shred Workshop 

• Digital Privacy. UMass Amherst Libraries

These handouts were distributed at privacy literacy outreach events on our campus. They include tips for developing a positive online persona, specific tips for posting to social media and LinkedIn, a Technology Day Presentation and associated handouts, and a worksheet on privacy literacy from a library class.  

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