Ken Varnum lightning talk, NISO virtual meeting on patron privacy in internal library systems, May 7, 2015: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/patron_privacy/
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Where We Are Today
We have long-standing policies that lead us to
• Delete patron access & use data
• Purge ILS of checkout history
• Intentionally forget who uses what and when
• Put privacy above understanding users and
outcomes
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Campus Context is
Changing
Library Analytics for Student Success Grant
• Actionable intelligence
• Moving research to practice
• Basis for design, pedagogy, self-awareness
• Changing institutional culture
• Understanding the limitations and risks
• Aligning to campus
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Changes Being Discussed
• Collecting a wide range of user interaction data
• Across the library ecosystem
• In the context of this campus-wide initiative
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Why Collect User Data
• Improve student outcomes
• Learning Analytics across campus
• Own our usage data, rather than license it back
• Integrate and explore data from across many
student-university interactions
6. Ken VarnumNISO Patron Privacy Virtual Meeting #1 7 May 2015
Library Considerations
In thinking about revisions to our privacy policy…
• Library commitment to privacy
• Why collect data?
• What do we do with the data once we have it?
• Options: opt in/opt out, all in, not at all
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Thanks
Thanks to Laurie Alexander, AUL for Learning &
Teaching, for sharing slides from earlier presentations
to library staff and at ACRL’s 2015 conference.