Dear colleagues, We're conducting an informal environmental scan of academic libraries to determine the extent of their data privacy policies. The goal of this scan is to determine how consistently aspirational these types of policies tend to be, or if there are some libraries that have aggressively pushed vendors to resolve some of the privacy issues not directly within the library's control (and there are some vendors that stick out as particularly egregious).
Does your library have a policy that enumerates guidelines on how patron data is managed and retained? Do you publish this policy so that students and faculty may read it? Do you incorporate your library's data privacy policies in your instruction (one-on-one, workshops, classes, entrenched librarians, etc.)? In regards to vendors, how do you address significant patron privacy issues before, during, or after implementing that service? Thank you for considering this scan. Kind regards, Dan Moore Discovery Services Librarian Oregon State University dan.mo...@oregonstate.edu
