Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases

There is no escaping the juggernaut that is artificial intelligence. As editors Hartman-Caverly (reference and instruction, Penn State Berks) and Chisholm (associate librarian, Penn State) note, privacy concerns have become even more pressing as libraries integrate smart voice assistants and AI-based machine learning applications into their operations and services. Hartman-Caverly and Chisholm address these issues, offering a selection of the leading scholarship on privacy literacy to help library workers understand and advance privacy literacy and become privacy advocates and educators. Cleverly organized after Article VII of the Library Bill of Rights, which calls for libraries to “advocate for, educate about, and protect people’s privacy,” this book is broken into four parts: “What Is Privacy Literacy?,” “Protecting Privacy,” “Educating About Privacy,” and “Advocating for Privacy.” Useful case studies, such as “Developing a Privacy Research Lab,” are sprinkled throughout, creating an easy balance with theoretical chapters like “Libraries, Privacy, and Surveillance Capitalism: The Looming Trouble with Academia and Invasive Information Technologies.”