[CASL-L] Fw: [aaslforum] Choose Privacy Week

[IRENE KWIDZINSKI]

FYI.  This is such an important issue today.


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Information on Choose Privacy Week from the ALA Office for  Intellectual Freedom
 
 
The social media hashtagfor Choose Privacy Week is #chooseprivacy.
 
http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/news/ala/office-intellectual-freedom-debuts-new-website-programming-resources-choose-privacy-week-20

 
Office for Intellectual Freedom debuts new website, programming  resources for 
Choose Privacy Week 2013
For  Immediate Release
Tue, 04/23/2013 - 14:58
CHICAGO — The Office for Intellectual Freedom has launched its new website for 
Choose Privacy Week, the American Library Association's (ALA)  annual event that 
highlights the importance of personal privacy rights in an era  of pervasive 
surveillance. 

 
The refreshed and redesigned website—now found at its  new URL, 
www.chooseprivacyweek.org—offers ALA members, librarians, and the public an  
improved and more interactive user experience with better access to Choose  
Privacy Week news, activities, resources, and  information.
                          
Choose Privacy Week takes place May  1-7.   
 
A new navigation system allows users  to more easily find the news updates, 
videos and resources they have come to  rely upon.  Voices for Privacy, the 
site's blog, will continue to provide users with timely news about privacy  
advocacy and discussions of important privacy issues, while new functionality  
offers users the opportunity to comment and add content to Choose Privacy Week's  
online information hub.    

 
Librarians planning Choose Privacy  Week activities will find a wealth of 
resources on the new website, including a  free,downloadable PDF edition of the 
Choose Privacy Week  Resource Guide.  The Resource Guide  contains 
out-of-the-box activities, events and other suggestions for educating  and 
engaging library users on privacy issues and features several age-specific  
lesson plans and activities for children and youth.  

 
To help plan programs and other  efforts, OIF has made  available a free 
recording of the April 9 webinar, "Choose Privacy Week  Programming @ Your 
Library," featuring a panel of librarians and  privacy experts discussing ideas 
and tools for privacy-related programming and  outreach.  Libraries and privacy 
mavens who want to promote Choose Privacy  Week online via their websites and 
social media can download new banners, web badges, and social media  images.  

                                                                 
Also available as "programming in a  box" are three Choose Privacy Week 
documentaries discussing  privacy, government surveillance and civil liberties 
that libraries can use to  spark discussion in their communities.  "Choose 
Privacy"  features youth,  parents, librarians and citizens discussing privacy 
in a digital age, with  commentary by author Neil Gaiman and  constitutional law 
scholar Geoffrey Stone of the University of Chicago.   "Vanishing Liberties:  
The Rise of State Surveillance  in the Digital Age," examines the government's 
growing use  and abuse of surveillance tools to track and spy on immigrant 
communities and  the proposals to adopt these same tools to monitor and track 
the activities of  all Americans.  "Data Mining,  Government Surveillance, and 
Civil Liberties" third presentation  features Michael German, ACLU senior  
policy counsel for national security and privacy and former FBI agent.  All 
three presentations  areavailable as streaming High Definition  videos.
 
Other Choose Privacy Week materials,  including posters, buttons, and book 
marks, are available for rush delivery via theALA Store.
 
Choose Privacy Week is a national public awareness campaign that  seeks to 
deepen public awareness about personal privacy rights and the need to  ensure 
those rights in an era of pervasive surveillance.  Through  programming, online 
education and special events, libraries will offer  individuals opportunities to 
learn, think critically and make more informed  choices about their privacy.  
The ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom  established Choose Privacy Week in 2010 
to help libraries work with their  communities in navigating these complicated 
but vital issues. Privacy has long  been a cornerstone of library services in 
America and a right that librarians  defend every day.
 
For more information on Choose  Privacy Week, visit www.chooseprivacyweek.org or  
contact Deborah Caldwell-Stone in the Office for Intellectual Freedom at (312)  
280-4224 or dstone at ala.org.
 
Helen  Adams
ALA  Privacy Subcommittee
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