Dear PETs,

 

Following today’s poll and meeting (notes here!), we decided to use our June meeting to pilot a reading group structure for PET.

 

Prior to June 15 at 3pm Eastern, please read the ALA Privacy Subcommittee’s recent revisions of their Library Privacy Guidelines for Vendors.

 

We’ll discuss this article at our next meeting, and will circulate a more robust agenda with discussion questions in a future email.

 

Looking ahead to July, we’ll discuss NERL’s values statement Demanding a Better Deal. So if you have spare time (haha), we welcome you to get started reading this in advance!

 

After collective discussion of these two articles, we’ll determine if the group has the interest and capacity to take on guidelines for values and/or implementation for institutional privacy and ethics review. If not, we will continue with volunteer-led reading groups.

 

In summary:

• We’ll discuss Library Privacy Guidelines for Vendors at our meeting on 6/15.
• We’ll discuss Demanding a Better Deal at our meeting on 7/20.
• From there, we’ll assess our interest in privacy and ethics guidelines.

 

Also, Andy and I will be in touch regarding our conversation with Jason Griffey at NISO.

 

Thanks again, all, for your continued interest and enthusiasm!

 

Paige & Andy

 

 

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