At the intersection of library data and privacy
It seemed so long ago – last week at this time, LDH was logging back into the online world only to find yelling. Lots of yelling. Why were so many people yelling in our timeline? What did someone in the library world do this time to set people off? It turns out that the source …
Continue reading “An Audacity Postmortem for the Library World”
Welcome to June! Today marks the start of the blog’s “summer schedule,” where we post on a bi-weekly basis. This month also marks the beginning of the summer for many in the Northern Hemisphere. We say “many” because in Seattle the summer season is replaced by construction season. For our East Coast readers, summer is …
Continue reading “State of The Hat: What’s Brewing and Reader Survey”
Another week, another acquisition. The latest news in the library vendor world came last Monday, with Clairvate purchasing ProQuest at the small sum of $5.63 billion. Academic libraries that subscribe to Web of Science and EndNote with Clairvate and Alma and Primo with ProQuest face the reality that now all of these products are owned …
Continue reading “A Quick Chat About Patron Data Privacy During Company Acquisitions and Mergers”
We’re taking it a bit easy this week for a good reason – the designated blog writer just received her second COVID shot. The Executive Assistant isn’t quite ready for the blog writer position just yet, so her writing debut on the blog will have to wait a bit longer. We have a question for …
Continue reading “Ask The Readers – Academic Libraries and Campus Vaccine Requirements”
It’s been a while since we last wrote about the many ways companies track users with cookies and beyond. This week we’re coming back to our “Beyond Web Cookies” series with the latest development in site tracking and why your library should consider opting out to protect patron privacy. (Puns in this post are fully …
Author’s note – This post uses “deceptive design” and “deceptive design patterns” instead of “dark patterns.” Read more about this choice in the “dark UX” entry of Intuit’s content design manual. Take a moment to study the following toggle button for the following privacy setting for “Don’t Not Sell My Personal Information”: Now answer this …
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Patron privacy had several moments in the spotlight at last week’s ALA Midwinter Conference. If you missed the conference or the news updates, no worries! Here are the highlights to help you catch up. A big moment for privacy resolutions ALA Council passed two major privacy resolutions during ALA Midwinter, moving the organization and the …
Black Friday and Cyber Monday have come and gone, but there are still plenty of opportunities to buy the last-minute gift to mark the end of a rough year. Patrons who might have gone to the library to ask for help setting up their new tech gadget will still find their way to the library …
Academic libraries have been in the information security spotlight due to the resurgence of Silent Librarian. The collection of academic user accounts gives attackers access to whatever the user has access to in the campus network, including personal data. Attackers gaining access to library patron data was not the reason why academic library information security …