Choose Privacy Week events
To submit a privacy event in your community (whether or not it takes place during the first week of May), please email or call 800-545-2433 ext. 4223.
Illinois
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: UIUC hosted two great events to celebrate Choose Privacy Week. For more information, visit the Connections Console.
- “Who do you trust to protect your privacy?“ Join us for a community discussion of privacy rights, issues, and choices in a digital age. Connections Console, Undergraduate Library, March 29, 2011 from 2-3:30 p.m.
- Film Screening: Join ALA@GSLIS for a film screening and discussion of privacy issues today. 126 GSLIS, March 30, 2011 at 7 p.m.
Indiana
Pulaski County Public Library (Winamac): We will have the Choose Privacy Week DVD playing all week in the library. We’re also offering Privacy Toolkits full of information from the IFC and Choose Privacy Week website for patrons to study at home. The library is small—serving roughly 10,000 people—but we’re SERIOUS about privacy!
New York
New York City College of Technology, CUNY: Here at the City Tech Library we’ll be blogging all week about all kinds of privacy-related topics: how to protect our privacy, strategies for making sure we only reveal the information we want to reveal, and lots of other privacy issues we face today.
Virginia
Newport News Public Library: Adults and families can learn how to protect their privacy in the digital age while helping their community during a free special event at Main Street Library in Newport News. The program, “Privacy in the Digital Age,” is 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturday, June 18. It includes a presentation by a noted author on privacy, a shredding truck, a panel discussion, and free booklets and other printed information. It is free and open to the public. The panel discussion is 1-4:30 p.m. It includes a presentation by Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, a University of Virginia professor, historian and media scholar, who will discuss his new book, “The Googlization of Everything (And Why We Should Worry).” Just released in March by University of California Press, his book was the cover feature of the Jan. 31, 2011, issue of Publisher’s Weekly magazine, where it received a starred review. In it, he explains, “How one company is disrupting commerce, culture and community.” Also participating are Carolyn Caywood, a librarian and privacy expert who will discuss her experiences helping organizations address privacy issues, including Virginia Beach’s face-recognition cameras; and Vickie Gaffney, a representative of the Newport News Sheriff’s Office, who will discuss how residents can protect themselves from consumer fraud and identity theft. Free materials available include official booklets and pamphlets from the Federal Trade Commission on talking with kids about online safety, avoiding identity theft, special information for military families, financial information and more. Residents may bring papers to the parking lot of Main Street Library to be shredded by Shred-It of Hampton, 9 a.m.-noon, free of charge with a donation of two canned goods to the Foodbank of the Virginia Peninsula. Foodbank volunteers will be available to assist. Each person may bring up to three boxes or brown paper bags full. This event is free and open to the public, and no registration required. Part of the Neisser Speaker Series, it is sponsored by the Library System’s Herbert H. Neisser Fund. Part of the Newport News Public Library System, the Main Street Library is located at 110 Main Street, Newport News, VA 23601. For more information about this program, please call 757-926-1357.
Wisconsin
Madison Public Library: Madison has partnered with the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s Wisconsin Office of Privacy Protection and Access Information Management to host a week-long series of events with a focus on preventing identity theft and making informed privacy choices.
- Film Showing of Inception: Monday, May 2, 6-8 pm, Goodman South Madison Library, 2222 S. Park St., 266-6395. View the critically acclaimed blockbuster movie, Inception, which explores themes of the subconscious, privacy, and corporate security.
- Choose Privacy: Tuesday, May 3, 6-8 pm, Hawthorne Library, 2707 E. Washington Ave., 246-4548. It’s time for Americans to take charge of their information privacy. We live in an age when knowledge is power. New technologies give us unprecedented access to information. They also facilitate surveillance, with the power to collect and mine personal information. People enjoy the convenience of having information at their fingertips. But most people don’t realize the trade off. Libraries across the country are sparking a national conversation on privacy. This evening’s program will include viewing of related videos and clips, along with a discussion with community members about privacy facilitated by a local librarian.
- Shred-Fest! and the Office of Privacy Protection: Monday, May 2, 10 am – 2 pm, Alicia Ashman Library, 733 N. High Point Rd., 824-1780; Wednesday, May 4, 10 am – 2 pm, Lakeview Library, 2845 N. Sherman Ave., 246-4547; and Thursday, May 5, 10 am – 2 pm, Pinney Library, 204 Cottage Grove Rd., 224-7100. Bring in your confidential documents (up to 5 bags or boxes) and watch them be destroyed by a shredding truck in the library parking lot, courtesy of Access Information Management. Inside, staff from the Office of Privacy Protection will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about how consumers and businesses can protect privacy and reduce the risk of identity theft. Drop in any time during these four-hour sessions.
- Identity Theft and Privacy Protection Display: Monday, May 2, 10 am – 2 pm, Goodman South Madison Library, 2222 S. Park St., 266-6395; and Tuesday, May 3, 10 am – 2 pm, Monroe Street Library, 1705 Monroe St., 266-6390. Stop by to see a display and pick up literature from the Office of Privacy Protection about how consumers and businesses can protect privacy and reduce the risk of identity theft. Drop in any time during these four-hour sessions; Office of Privacy Protection staff will not be on site during the display.
- Identity Theft and Privacy Protection: Tuesday, May 3, 10 am – 2 pm, Hawthorne Library, 2707 E. Washington Ave., 246-4548; Wednesday, May 4, 10 am – 2 pm, Meadowridge Library, 5740 Raymond Rd., 288-6160; Thursday, May 5, 10 am – 2 pm, Central Library, 201 W. Mifflin St., 266-6350; and Friday, May 6, 10 am – 2 pm, Sequoya Library, 4340 Tokay Blvd., 266-6385. Staff from the Office of Privacy Protection will be on hand to answer questions and provide information about how consumers and businesses can protect privacy and reduce the risk of identity theft. Drop in any time during these four-hour sessions.
- Business Data Security: What Should You Know? Wednesday, May 4, 6-8 pm, Hawthorne Library, 2707 E. Washington Ave., 246-4548. Is your business doing everything it can to protect your consumers and the data entrusted to you by them? Susan Schilz, Senior Regulatory Specialist at the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection’s Office of Privacy Protection presents simple concepts and best practices that you can begin to work into your business. She will talk about how to think differently about data and the way you collect, store and manage it, as well as how to create, implement, and manage a business-wide privacy plan.
- Film Showing of The Social Network: Saturday, May 7, 1:30 – 3:30 pm, Alicia Ashman Library, 733 N. High Point Rd., 824-1780. View the award-winning film, The Social Network, which chronicles the founding of the social networking phenomenon, Facebook. Seating is limited - call 824-1780 to RSVP.
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