Choose Privacy Week events
To submit a privacy event in your community (whether or not it took place during May 2-8, 2010), please email or call 800-545-2433 ext. 4223.
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)
The ACRL Springboard Event is a live, interactive webcast offered to all ACRL members for free. The 2010 ACRL Springboard Event will feature John Palfrey, Henry N. Ess III Professor of Law, Vice Dean, Library and Information Resources, Harvard Law School, and Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, and co-author of “Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives.“ It will take place Wednesday, May 5, 2010 from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. CDT (11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. PDT; 12:00 - 1:30 p.m. MDT; 2:00 - 3:30 p.m. EDT). Offered in conjunction with the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom’s inaugural “Choose Privacy Week”, May 2-8, 2010, the 2010 ACRL Springboard Event will examine issues related to privacy in the socially networked environment. Palfrey will consider concerns related to privacy, how we evaluate the right to privacy and freedom of information, and how librarians can help users understand and navigate their own privacy concerns. There is no registration fee for this member event, but ACRL members should register online by May 3, 2010, to confirm their space in the webcast. For more information, visit the ACRL website.
Florida
Florida International University (Miami): We are creating a book display, along with PDF handouts, and have set up a laptop and screen projecting various videos from www.privacyrevolution.org and other types of interviews. Also, working in conjuction with our Student Government Association, we hope to close the week with a forum in our student center on Friday, featuring a journalism professor and activist as speaker.
Indiana
Hamilton East Public Library (Fishers & Noblesville): Inspired by ALA’s Choose Privacy poster and bookmarks, we are planning a BGTY Night (Be Good to Yourself Night) - with the underlying theme about the value of public and personal privacy - and that it must be fun for ages 12-19 years old! We have incorporated fitness, volunteerism, cyber-safety and technology, self-esteem assessment and several other handouts, discount coupons, crafts, book displays & book lists, light refreshments and a raffle! We have some wonderful local businesses that are donating their time and/or products and services. For example, a local salon is raffling off an onsite free haircut, skin care analysis, makeup session and manicure. We also have representatives from Habitat for Humanity and the YMCA who will be demonstrating fitness. Visit http://www.hepl.lib.in.us for more information.
Pulaski County Public Library (Winamac): We will be celebrating Choose Privacy Week on May 3-8 by equipping patrons with “Privacy Toolkits”. The toolkits will include information on digital privacy, bookmarks, and buttons. Interested patrons will be able to sign a large poster board proclaiming that they “Choose Privacy” and encourage others to do the same. Each patron who participates will be entered into a drawing for 2 tickets to the Isis Theatre in Winamac.
Maine
Belfast Free Library: “Privacy in the Digital Age.“ As part of the American Library Association’s Choose Privacy Week May 2-8, join Jim Campbell, host of WERU’s “Notes from the Electronic Cottage,” on May 4 at 6:30 p.m. for an overview of what corporations and the government know about us and our personal lives, and for a discussion of what privacy means - or doesn’t mean - in today’s Digital Age. This program is free and open to the public. For more information, visit www.belfastlibrary.org.
Massachusetts
Eldredge Public Library (Chatham): Paul Buta, author of “Privacy Panic: How to Avoid Identity Theft, Stop Spam and Take Control of Your Personal Privacy,“ will present a brief history of privacy in the United States as well as deliver practical advice on how to avoid privacy mistakes in daily life. After a brief presentation, an open Q&A session will allow your privacy questions to be answered.
Missouri
St. Louis Public Library: On May 6 from 7-8:30 p.m., Hal Niedzviecki will talk about his book, “The Peep Diaries.“ He discusses the idea of peep culture - in which our private lives become other people’s pop culture - within the context of social networking. Facebook and Youtube are the new TV! Also, we’ll discuss what we should or should not disclose online. A must-attend event for anyone who uses social networking sites! Left Bank books will provide books for sale. In celebration of Choose Privacy Week, a new initiative that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. The campaign gives libraries the tools they need to educate and engage users, and gives citizens the resources to think critically and make more informed choices about their privacy. For more information, visit http://www.slpl.org/events/calendar.asp?selectedEvent=1&selectedBranch=0
New Hampshire
Keene Public Library: Herman Tavani, the author of Ethics and Technology, and the president of the International Society for Information Technology, is going to speak at the Keene Public Library (NH). We also hope to do coordinate a Deliberative Forum on Privacy. For more information, contact 603-352-0157.
Ohio
Stark County District Library: “You Told the World What? Privacy in the Age of Social Networking.” The Stark County District Library is hosting a round table event at two branches focusing on social networking and privacy during Choose Privacy Week. The events will be held at the Plain Community Branch on May 4th from 3-4:00 p.m. and the Lake Community Branch on May 6th from 2:30-3:30 p.m. The high school and middle school panelists, some who are active users of the internet and social networking tools and some who are not, will discuss a list of questions from moderators and the audience. This event is designed to create awareness of internet safety and the security risks of social networking. By providing a safe and open environment for discussion, students will have the opportunity to learn from each other about internet safety and what they can do to protect their privacy. SCDL is working to take this event beyond the walls of the library and into the schools as part of its outreach programming. For more information contact the Plain Community Branch at 330-494-3399 or visit http://www.starklibrary.org/you-told-the-world-what-?sd=1272924000.
Pennsylvania
Manheim Township High School (Lancaster): Do you value your privacy? Join us for a CONVERSATION about PRIVACY and SOCIAL NETWORKING. Celebrate “Choose Privacy Week” on May 5, 2010 at 2:45 to 3:30 pm in the library. Refreshments will be available. Please register in the library if you plan to attend this session.
Rhode Island
University of Rhode Island: URI Library instructors of information literacy will sponsor “Your Life is an Open (Face)Book: Privacy in the Digital Age” on Thursday, April 22, 2010, 4:30-6 p.m. in Swan Auditorium on the Kingston campus. This forum will explore privacy rights that are guaranteed by the 4th Amendment to the US Constitution but which are surely being tested by digital technologies such as social networks, electronic surveillance systems, consumer loyalty cards, airport body imaging scanners, and many other data collection and manipulation techniques used by organizations and government. Presentations by panelists will be followed by an open discussion of these important privacy issues. We are pleased to welcome panelists Robert Ellis Smith and Patrick C. Lynch.
- Robert Ellis Smith has been publisher of Privacy Journal since 1974 and is a nationally-recognized expert on privacy and computer records. He has written several books on privacy including, Ben Franklin’s Web Site: Privacy and Curiosity From Plymouth Rock to the Internet (2000 and 2004), and has been selected twice to write the definition of privacy for the World Book Encyclopedia.
- Rhode Island Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch has advocated for civil rights and improved legal protections for young people, especially those involving social networks. His department oversees prosecution of online consumer fraud as well as criminal cases involving online bullying, identity theft, child pornography, and domestic violence.
“Your Life is an Open (Face)Book” is free and open to the public. Contact: Jim Kinnie, University Libraries. (401) 874-9240
Vermont
Sherburne Memorial Library: We will feature short videos on our website as well as in the library from May 2-8. We will also host the following Choose Privacy Week events: Book Discussion of Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” – Wednesday, May 5, 7 p.m. Coffee Breaks – Thursday, May 6, 2 p.m. and Friday, May 7, 10:30 a.m. (short videos to spark discussion – What does privacy mean to you? How can you protect your privacy? What can be done for future generations? We’ll provide the coffee and snack). Video Discussion featuring talk by world renown security expert Bruce Schneier: Security Privacy and the Generation Gap – Thursday, May 6, 7 p.m. Also, pick up your free “I Choose Privacy Kit,” full of handy resource materials and forms you can use.
Virginia
Virginia Beach Public Library: Join us for a deliberative forum on privacy on Monday, May 3, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m. at the Bayside Area Library, 936 Independence Blvd., Virginia Beach, 23455. Visit the event’s Facebook page or call 385-2680 to register, beginning April 15.
Wisconsin
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee: The UWM School of Information Studies and UWM Libraries have joined together to provide a venue for local librarians, information professionals, and patrons to discuss the emerging privacy and ethical challenges for libraries in the new “2.0” era, titled: “Emerging Privacy and Ethical Challenges for Libraries in the 2.0 Era.“ It will take place Tuesday, May 4, 2010 from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. in the Golda Meir Library, West Wing, 4th Floor Conference Center, 2311 E. Hartford, Milwaukee, WI. Visit Facebook for more information. Topics to be discussed include: What innovative online tools and services are libraries bringing to users, and what are the potential impacts on patron privacy? Are there privacy considerations for providing or controlling access to digital collections? How do current laws & policies protect patron privacy, and are any changes coming? What are the broader ethical responsibilities for librarians and information professions in the libraries of the future? Featured panelists will be:
- Liza Barry-Kessler : privacy lawyer and co-author Privacy in the 21st Century: Issues for Public, School, and Academic Libraries
- Kristin Eschenfelder : associate professor, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison
- Peter Lor : visiting professor, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee, Past Secretary General, International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA)
- Michael Zimmer : assistant professor, School of Information Studies, UW-Milwaukee
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