Program Manager Metropolitan New York Library Council
Many library workers and their patrons already know the phrase “if you aren’t paying for a product, then the product is you.” But with federal and local efforts to reduce or even eliminate the digital divide, more and more individuals who are not already versed in issues in data privacy are joining the online world. Without proper understanding of the vulnerabilities that come with using the internet – doxing, scams, and even fraud among them — we risk placing people at risk in our efforts to better connect them.
Starting in 2017, a New York City-based coalition of library workers from Brooklyn Public Library, The New York Public Library, Queens Public Library, and Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) joined forces to create NYC Digital Safety: Privacy + Security with funding from The City of New York’s Office of Technology and Innovation. Now in the final phase of work, the project team is ready to share and demonstrate a newly redesigned state-of-the-art toolkit, materials for which are available to all at nycdigitalsafety.org. This toolkit consists of 25 training videos for library staff and over 40 curriculum pieces library workers can use to provide training and support to their patrons.
In this session, project lead Davis Erin Anderson, Program Manager at METRO will share resources and tools from this project. She will give a tour of the project website and will highlight the many resources on data privacy that are now available to libraries everywhere.
Learning Objectives:
Define what is meant by data privacy, information security, and related terms
Explain in detail why it’s important discuss these concepts with our library communities
Understand how to find tools and resources needed to conduct workshops, conversations, and other modes of interactions with library patrons on principles of data privacy and information security
Add elements of data privacy and information security to existing workshops provided by the library
Integrate data privacy principles across service points at the library