User Privacy: A Practical Guide for Librarians

✍ Scribed by Matthew Connolly

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year: 2018
Tongue: English
Series: Practical Guides for Librarians
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Personal data in the online world as become a commodity. Coveted by criminals, demanded by governments, and used for unsavory purposes by marketers and advertisers, your private information is at risk everywhere. For libraries and librarians, this poses a professional threat as well as a personal one. How can we protect the privacy of library patrons and users who browse our online catalogs, borrow sensitive materials, and use our public computers and networks?
User Privacy: A Practical Guide for Librarians answers that question. Through simple explanations and detailed, step-by-step guides, library professionals will learn how to strengthen privacy protections for:

Library policies

Wired and wireless networks

Public computers

Web browsers

Mobile devices

Apps

Cloud computing

Each chapter begins with a "threat assessment" that provides an overview of the biggest security risks – and the steps that can be taken to deal with them. Also covered are techniques for preserving online anonymity, protecting activists and at-risk groups, and the current state of data encryption.

✦ Subjects

Language Arts, Nonfiction, LAN025060

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