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Good morning, ToS'ers, I'm pleased to announce that the Advocacy sub-group's Advocacy Action Plan is ready for the light of day. You can find it attached or via the OSF: https://osf.io/j5k8s/ Be sure to share it with your local fellow-travelers and skeptics alike. There will also be some official tweets from CLIR and DLF, so look for those too. Here's a summary from the first page: This document will assist librarians who want to communicate about the sensitivities of library patron data with those serving in decision-making roles. As librarians discuss how patron data is used and shared in wider institutional and societal contexts, it is essential to understand why librarians choose to share and analyze some patron data, while at other times choose to protect, limit the collection of, and purge that data. In many cases, libraries may be mandated by their governing bodies (i.e., university administrators, city councils, boards) to provide data related to the use of the library and its systems and content. Librarians may struggle to balance the potential usefulness of patron data as it relates to student success, library funding, advocacy, and assessment with concerns over patron privacy. To my fellow authors, and to everyone who ever attended an Advocacy call or helped via the listserv, thank you! I also want to thank Kathlin Smith, Director of Communications at CLIR, for her expert assistance with the publication process. Hope to see you in Tampa next month, Michelle ---- Michelle Gibeault (she/her) Scholarly Engagement Librarian for the Humanities Howard-Tilton Memorial Library | Tulane University [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>|(504) 247-1821 ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the DLF-SURVEILLANCE-TECH list, click the following link: https://lists.clir.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=DLF-SURVEILLANCE-TECH