This reading list is by no means comprehensive and is intended to serve as an entry point to the topic of library privacy and technology. Additional materials will be added to the Further Reading page for those who would like to continue to engage in this topic.
Session 1: Thursday, March 24, 4PM
Location: Main Library 428
Theme: Surveillance Capitalism & Libraries
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Zuboff, Shoshana. “The Discovery of Behavioral Surplus.” In The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power. New York: Public Affairs (2019), pp. 69-101.
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Kim, Bohyun. “Convenience, Surveillance Capitalism, and Library User Experience.” Online Searcher 45, no. 6 (2021), pp. 35-37.
Session 2: Thursday, March 31, 4PM
Location: Main Library 428
Theme: Patron Privacy Debates
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Salo, Dorothea. “Physical-Equivalent Privacy.” The Serials Librarian 81, no. 1 (2021), pp. 20-34.
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Gariepy, Laura W. “Acceptable and Unacceptable Uses of Academic Library Search Data: An Interpretive Description of Undergraduate Student Perspectives.” Evidence Based Library & Information Practice 16, no. 2 (2021), pp. 22-44.
Session 3: Thursday, April 7, 4PM
Location: Main Library 428
Theme: Library Analytics & Evaluation
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Jones, Kyle M.L., et al. “A Comprehensive Primer to Library Learning Analytics Practices, Initiatives, and Privacy Issues.” College & Research Libraries 81, no. 3 (2020), pp. 570-593.
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Nicholson, Karen P., et al. “Just-in-Time or Just-in-Case? Time, Learning Analytics, and the Academic Library.” Library Trends 66, no. 1 (2019), pp. 54-75.
Session 4: Thursday, April 14, 4PM
Location: Main Library 428
Theme: Technological Determinism
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Benjamin, Ruha. “Beyond Techno-Determinism.” In Race After Technology: Abolitionist Tools for the New Jim Code. Polity (2019), pp. 41-47.
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Popowich, Sam. “‘Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists’: Marxism, Technology, and Library Work.” Education & Research Archive (2017), pp. 39-66.
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Greene, Daniel. “Introduction.” In The Promise of Access: Technology, Inequality, and the Political Economy of Hope. Cambridge: The MIT Press (2021), pp. 1-28.
Session 5: Thursday, April 21, 4PM
Location: Main Library 428
Theme: Library Value and Privacy
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Fife, Dustin and Mary Naylor. “Work for the Decision Makers: Literature Reviews as a High-Impact Service.” Reference & User Services Quarterly 56, no. 1, pp. 14-16.
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Irwin, Bill and Kimberly Silk. “Changing Stakeholder Expectations of Library Value.” Public Library Quarterly 38, no. 3 (2019), pp. 320-330.
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Zvyagintseva, Lydia. “Articulating Our Very Unfreedom: The Impossibility of Refusal in the Contemporary Academy.” Canadian Journal of Academic Librarianship 7, no. 1 (2021), pp. 1-24.