Physical-Equivalent Privacy and the Ever Changing yet Same Privacy Landscape: Challenging Circumstances and Possible Paths for Consideration

Abstract

Privacy should be a factor in every decision made around library services and the provision of resources.With staffing stretched to the breaking point, and only more so as a result of the pandemic, what strategies and tools could best help libraries ensure good privacy practices? This session will draw upon current scholarship, grant projects, and policy making in librarianship to highlight ways that librarians are engaging with these important issues. The panel features editors and authors from a special issue of Serials Librarian focused on library privacy. Highlights include discussing physical equivalent privacy, thirdparty tracking systems, and the development of model privacy license language for vendor negotiations.In this session, participants will talk about the latest concerns and what you might do in your library to assure your faculty, staff, and students that their privacy is front of mind.

Implementing and assessing Seamlessaccess: A publisher’s experience

“…A review of the literature reveals that multiple industry experts have adequately discussed the issues of security and privacy since 2019 [9][10][11][12]. Even though several librarians expressed reservations about privacy and security [13][14][15], more and more libraries embraced Federated Authentication and Seam-lessAccess during the Pandemic and addressed privacy issues from the library side [16]. After studying the SeamlessAccess documentation and talking with the SeamlessAccess team, we are convinced there is no real danger of insecure authentication as SeamlessAccess plays no part whatsoever in any exchange of data between the home institution and the service.…”