Creating a Library Privacy Policy by Focusing on Patron Interactions

Morehouse, Shandra; Vitak, Jessica; Subramaniam, Mega; Liao, Yuting

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-43687-2_47

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“…A privacy audit is also useful because it plays an instrumental role in a library developing or revising a privacy policy. 13 It can reveal strengths and weaknesses in library policies and procedures and provide an opportunity for the staff to collectively devise more robust and current privacy protections. Currently, many academic and public libraries openly display patron data privacy policies on their websites.…”

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Privacy Audit of Public Access Computers and Networks at a Public College Library

Angell

2023

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In 2021, the assessment-data management librarian at Lehman College Library decided to conduct a privacy audit of the Library’s public computers and networks. This audit comprised one of the Library’s two annual formal assessments of resources and services. The American Library Association’s (ALA) Library Privacy Checklist for Public Access Computers and Networks was selected to review 17 key items related to protecting user privacy and confidentiality. Faculty and staff from Circulation, Library Technology, and Online Learning identified 10 indicators needing work. Suggestions are provided for collaboratively resolving these issues and future steps are described to continuously maximize the online security of the campus community.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Privacy Audit of Public Access Computers and Networks at a Public College Library

Angell

2023

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“…A variety of document analytic techniques have been used by LIS researchers in these efforts, including critical content analysis (Crawford Barniskis, 2016), critical discourse analysis (Hill, 2009), rhetorical analysis (Ingraham, 2015) and thematic analysis (Morehouse et al , 2020). In discussing policy research using document analytic techniques, Saarinen (2008, pp.…”

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The pragmatics of weeding

Martens

2021

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PurposeThe purpose of this research is to investigate the language of “weeding” (library deselection) within public library collection development policies in order to examine whether such policies and practices can be usefully connected to library and information science (LIS) theory, specifically to “Deweyan pragmatic adaptation” as suggested by Buschman (2017) in the pages of this journal.Design/methodology/approachThis is a policy analysis of collection deselection policies from the 50 public libraries serving US state capitals, using Bacchi’s policy problem representation technique.Findings“Weeding” as described by these public library collection deselection policies is clearly pragmatic and oriented to increasing circulation to patrons, but the “Deweyan pragmatic adaptation” as reflected by many of those reviewed might better be defined as the pragmatism of Melvil Dewey rather than that of John Dewey.Research limitations/implicationsAlthough this work reviewed policies from a very small sample of US public libraries, collection, selection and deselection language as shown in the policies studied appear to be consistent with neoliberal priorities and values in terms of prioritizing “circulation” and “customers,” which may have additional implications for the current transition from print to electronic materials in public librariesOriginality/valueJohn Dewey’s political philosophy and Carol Bacchi’s policy problem representation technique have not been widely used in policy analysis by LIS researchers, and this paper offers a number of suggestions for similar public library policy investigations.

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