Just Published – Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Best Practices Train-the-Trainer Handbook

Happy October! Depending on who you ask at LDH, October is either:

1. Cybersecurity Awareness Month
2. An excuse for the Executive Assistant to be extra while we try to work
3. The time to wear flannel and drink coffee nevermind, this is every month in Seattle

Since the Executive Assistant lacks decent typing skills (as far as we know), we declare October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month at LDH. Like last year, this month will focus on privacy’s popular sibling, security. We also want to hear from you! If there is an information security topic you would like us to cover this month (or the next), email us at newsletter@ldhconsultingservices.com.

We start the month with a publication announcement! The Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Training for Libraries, an LSTA-funded collaborative project between the Pacific Library Partnership, LDH, and Lyrasis, just published two library data privacy and cybersecurity resources for library workers wanting to create privacy and security training for their libraries:

• PLP Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Best Practices Train-the-Trainer Handbook – The handbook is a guide for library trainers wanting to develop data privacy and cybersecurity training for library staff. The handbook walks through the process of planning and developing a training program at the library and provides ideas for training topics and activities. This handbook is a companion to the Data Privacy Best Practices Toolkit for Libraries published last year.
• PLP Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Best Practices Train-the-Trainer Workshops (under the 2021 tab) – If you’re looking for train-the-trainer workshop materials, we have you covered! You can now access the materials used in the two train-the-trainer workshops for data privacy and cybersecurity conducted earlier this year. Topics include:
  • Data privacy – data privacy fundamentals and awareness; training development basics; vendor relations; patron programming; building a library privacy program
  • Cybersecurity – cybersecurity basics; information security threats and vulnerabilities; how to protect the library against common threats such as ransomware and phishing; building cybersecurity training for libraries

Both publications include extensive resource lists for additional training materials and to keep current with the rapid changes in cybersecurity and data privacy in the library world and beyond. Feel free to share your training stories and materials with us – we would love to hear what you all come up with while using project resources! We hope that these publications, along with the rest of the project’s publications, will make privacy and cybersecurity training easier to create and to give at your library.