At the intersection of library data and privacy
Welcome to the first week of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere! This month marks one year of working from home for some library workers and the hybrid remote/onsite work limbo for others. In both cases, this anniversary also marks a year’s worth of patron data collected and stored all over the place due to the …
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Snow has come to Seattle and with it comes the covered evergreen trees, cars slipping and sliding on the many hills, and skiing down major roadways. The shift to remote work, schooling, and services has morphed traditional snow days into “work at home if the snow hasn’t knocked out power” days. We talked about protecting …
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Happy early Data Privacy Day from LDH! Even though there might not be an opportunity this year to put cookies in the staff room as a way to educate staff about their less-than-tasty web counterparts, you can still celebrate this day at a safe distance. This January 28th, celebrate the day with your colleagues and …
Last Wednesday’s attempted insurrection at the US Capitol left many in various states of shock, despair, anger, and grief. As the fallout from the attempt continues to unfold, we are starting to learn more about the possible cybersecurity breaches that resulted from the attempt. Cybersecurity professionals, who are still trying to investigate the extent of …
Welcome to 2021! We hope that everyone had a restful holiday break. There might be some changes to your work environment for the new year that could affect the privacy and security of your patrons’ data. Let’s start this year off with a quick (and gentle) check-in. Smart devices Smartwatches, smart speakers, smart TVs – …
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People sometimes ask what keeps privacy professionals up at night. What is that one “worst-case scenario” that we dread? Personally, one of the scenarios hanging over my head is insider threat – when a library employee, vendor, or another person who has access to patron data uses that data to harm patrons. A staff person …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Today we’re happy to announce the publication of the Data Privacy Best Practices Toolkit for Libraries. This toolkit is part of the Data Privacy Best Practices Training for Libraries project, an LSTA-funded collaborative project between the Pacific Library Partnership and LDH focusing on teaching libraries the basics …
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Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Today marks the second day of NaNoWriMo – National Novel Writing Month. For years many aspiring (and established) writers spend countless hours writing to reach the goal of a 50,000-word manuscript. If you do the math, you would have to write about 1700 words a day to …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Cybersecurity Awareness Month wouldn’t be complete without a post about a current cybersecurity threat. This month we learned that Silent Librarian is making the rounds right on time for the start of the academic school year. Academic libraries encountered Silent Librarian last year, where several prominent universities …
Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! Summer is over, and for many library workers, the start of the fall season means an uptick of library instruction sessions and programs. Academic and school library workers who already face the challenge of creating and teaching “one-shot” instructional sessions have the added challenge of moving these …
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