[Neasis-l] Reminder - NEASIST Spring Meetup Wed. March 5, 5:30-7 pm at Champions in Kendall Square, Cambridge

[Beata Panagopoulos]

Spring Meetup

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE: LIBRARIES AND PRIVACY IN THE DIGITAL AGE

Join us for an informal and lively discussion on the issue of privacy in the digital age. Historically, libraries have been staunch defenders of patron privacy. But in an era when citizens routinely share their information, particularly in the digital realm, in order to receive tailored book and movie recommendations and targeted services, are libraries standing in the way of their own progress? Could libraries track patron information for good, rather than evil?
Food for thought:

*	ALA Code of Ethics  http://www.ala.org/advocacy/proethics/codeofethics/codeethics
*	Balancing Privacy and Innovation: Reinventing Libraries, a Library Journal article by Joseph Janes  
	http:\lj.libraryjournal.com\2013\08\future-of-libraries\balancing-privacy-innovation-reinventing-libraries\
*	Digital Rights and Wrongs, video by MIT Professor Alex Pentland  http:\forumblog.org\2013\12\ideas-davos-digital-rights-and-wrongs\	
*	As Libraries Go Digital, a Chronicle article by Marc Perry http://chronicle.com/article/As-Libraries-Go-Digital/135514/


WHEN:
Wednesday, March 5, 2014, 5:30pm to 7pm

WHERE:
Champions Bar
50 Broadway
Kendall Square
Cambridge, MA 02139

For more information, contact neasist at gmail.com 
http://www.neasist.org