Please enjoy the P&C Section Committee’s November Privacy and Confidentiality News Roundup! In it you’ll find news, events, section updates, and resources that relate to privacy, restrictions, and confidentiality in archives.
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
- Save the Date: A joint coffee chat will be held by the P&C and C&U Sections on Wednesday, December 7 at 11am MTN, 12pm CST, 1pm EST. The guest speaker will be Megan Friedel, Head of Archives and Collections Section Lead/Assistant Professor and the interim Co-Lead, Rare and Distinctive Collections at UC Boulder. She will be presenting her research on “providing access to federal law enforcement investigation records at public state institutions and especially considerations re FOIA vs. state open records laws.” An additional announcement and Zoom information will be shared through SAA Connect in the coming weeks.
News and resources roundup
- Librarians, Archivists and Museum Professionals in the History of Health Sciences (LAMPHHS) has updated their HIPAA resources page.
Upcoming events
- [in-person conference]: AMIA 2022, December 7-9, Pittsburgh, PA. Programming will include “Conserving South Asian Cinema Collections in North American Archives by Lydia Creech, Erica Jones, Amal Ahmed, and Brian Meacham. Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe and Becky Yoose; and “American Archive of Public Broadcasting: Managing Risk for Access” by Casey Davis, Jay Fialkov, Hope O’Keeffe, and Alan Gevinson.
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