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Purging User Data to Protect Privacy:
a small library’s outsized impact
Polly ThistlethwaiteChief LibrarianThe Graduate Center, CUNYNew York, NY USA@missreadings
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The Graduate Center is the doctorate-granting institution of the City University of New York.
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Small but Mighty …
Interlibrary loan = ¼ total circulation
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Why Keep ILL Data?
Stats for collection development
Users like their request records
To target recommendations to users
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Why let it go?
privacy expectations
minimize user tracking
retain data short-term
encourage private inquiry
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"In a library … the right to privacy is the right to open inquiry without having the subject of one's interest … scrutinized by others."
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Privacy is so 20th century …
Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems [on privacy]:
“Get over it.”
Wired, 1999
Mark Zuckerberg,Facebook:
“People have really gotten comfortable … sharing more information of different kinds … more openly and with more people … . That social norm … has evolved … .”
The Guardian, 2010
L. G. Crovitz, Wall Street Journal:
“The benefits of technology have changed people’s expectations about privacy and information.”
Wall Street Journal, 2011
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Even if we purge, data persists
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Context: FOIL Requests
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ILLiad Script Options
De-linkRecords
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break transaction links
Delete old usernames
if without transactions
Delete old transactions
select date parameters
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Project Timeline
SEPT OCT NOV DEC JAN
School begins
School break
Blog #1
Mass email
Blog #2
ILLiad alert message
OCLCpreps script
Script runs
IndividualQs
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Communication = Key
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Media Coverage!
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Social Media Buzz
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Synergy
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Purging User Data to Protect Privacy: a small library’s outsized impact
Polly ThistlethwaiteThe Graduate Center, CUNY@missreadings
With:Beth Posner, Head of Resource SharingSilvia Cho, Interlibrary Loan Supervisor
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ReferencesAmerican Library Association. (30 June 2004). ALA Policy concerning Confidentiality of Personally
Identifiable Information about Library Users. http://www.ala.org/advocacy/intfreedom/statementspols/otherpolicies/policyconcerning
Cain, S (4 August 2016). British Woman Held After Being Seen Reading a Book about Syria on Plane. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/13/us-library-records-purged-data-privacy
Crovitz, L. G. (28 March 2011). The 0.00002% Privacy Solution. The Wall Street Journal. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748704474804576222732361366712
Crowley , K. (17 July 1990, 15) Zodiac Cops Quiz Broker about Library Book. New York Post.
CUNY Libraries’ Privacy Statement (February 2016) http://www2.cuny.edu/about/administration/offices/library-services/policies/patron-privacy/
Daniels, J. and P. Thistlethwaite. (2016) Being a Scholar in the Digital Era: Transforming scholarly practice for the public good. Bristol: Policy Press.
Esposito, J. (2016). Libraries May Have Gotten the Privacy Thing All Wrong. The Scholarly Kitchen.https://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2016/06/23/libraries-may-have-gotten-the-privacy-thing-all-wrong/
Etzioni, A. (2015). Privacy in a cyber age: Policy and practice. New York: Palgrave McMillan.
Johnson, B. (10 January 2010). Privacy no longer a social norm, says Facebook founder. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2010/jan/11/facebook-privacy
Koulessar, R. (23 May 2015). Michelle Fine Responds to Emails Posted by Montclair Kids First. NorthJersey.com http://www.northjersey.com/news/education/emails-fine-and-not-so-fine-1.1345178?page=all
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References – cont’dMacrina, A. (14 July 2016). Protecting Patron Privacy. Library Journal. http://
lj.libraryjournal.com/2016/07/digital-resources/protecting-patron-privacy/
Night of the Zodiac. (11 July 1990, 1). New York Post.
OCLC (n.d.) Privacy policy. http://www.oclc.org/policies/privacy.en.html
OCLC. (2015). OCLC Information Security Whitepaper. OCLC. https://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/policies/security/oclcinformationsecuritywhitepaper.pdf
Parisier, E. (22 May 2011). What the Internet knows about you. http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/05/22/pariser.filter.bubble/
Posner, B. (6 October 2015). Interlibrary Loan News: Keep your ILL request history private. http://gclibrary.commons.gc.cuny.edu/2015/10/06/interlibrary-loan-news-keep-ill-request-history-private/
Shain, M. (20 July 1990, 1). Knock on Every Door: Search for Zodiac back to square one. New York Post.
Shain, M. (12 July 1990, 1, 5). Zodiac Trap: Cops set to shut down subways when killer strikes. New York Post.
Shain, M. and A. E. Murray. (11 July 1990, 8) New Zodiac Twist: Dies he use a computer? New York Post.
Sprenger, P. (26 January 1999). Sun on Privacy: “Get Over It.” Wired. http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/1999/01/17538
Theilman, S. (13 January 2016). You are Not What You Read: Librarians purge user data to protect privacy. The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/jan/13/us-library-records-purged-data-privacy
Turow, J., et al. (2009). Americans Reject Tailored Advertising and Three Activities That Enable It. http://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1138&context=asc_papers
Zimmer, M. (2013). Assessing the Treatment of Patron Privacy in Library 2.0 Literature. Information Technology & Libraries 32(2), 29-41.