If you have any privacy and confidentiality related news, events, or resources to share, let us know! We can add it to next month’s News Roundup. Email us at SAAPrivacy@gmail.com.
Section updates
- As the first event in a new Digital Tools for Privacy and Confidentiality series, digital preservationist and software developer Tessa Walsh will present a demo of Bulk Reviewer, an application that supports the identification, review, and removal of sensitive digital files. The demo will be followed by a Q&A session; attendees are welcome to submit questions, or share tips from their own experience with the tool, either in advance via this form or via chat during the event. Registration is free and open to anyone interested in how this tool might be used in born-digital processing. The Bulk Reviewer presentation will occur Tuesday, November 16 from 2-2:45 pm Eastern/1-1:45 pm Central; registration is available here.
- The P&C Section is also seeking presenters for future events in the series! If you have experience using digital tools with privacy and confidentiality applications in your archival work, and would be interested in hosting or co-hosting a webinar, please consider filling out this form, and we’ll be in touch!
News and resources roundup
- The ACRL/RBMS Guidelines Regarding Security and Theft in Special Collections are in the process of revision. These guidelines, used by special collections and archival repositories, currently encourage punitive action to safeguard collections, spaces, and staff. The Abolition in Special Collections group of the Abolitionist Library Association encourages archivists to read and sign its statement to the RBMS Executive Committee to support a revision that will make special collections reading rooms safer spaces for everyone.
- Caputo, Marc. “‘An outrage against democracy’: JFK’s nephews urge Biden to reveal assassination reocrds.” 2021 October 24.
- Shaub, Jonathan. “Executive Privilege and the Jan. 6 Investigation.” Lawfare blog, 2021 September 29.
- Shivaram, Deepa. “White House delays the release of secret JFK assassination records, citing COVID-19.” 2021 October 25
- Woodruff, Betsy; Cheney, Kyle. Trump sues Jan. 6 committee, National Archives. Politico, 2021 October 18
- Zeitlyn, David. “Anthropology in and of the Archives: Possible Futures and Contingent Pasts. Archives as Anthropological Surrogates.” Annual Review of Anthropology 41 (2012): 461–80. http://www.jstor.org/stable/23270722.
Upcoming conferences with P&C-related content
- “Trauma-Informed Approaches to Library Privacy — A Practical Workshop” Hosted by DLF. November 10, 2021. Additional Information
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