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Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries

Kristin Briney and Becky Yoose

Colorful book cover of Managing Data for Patron Privacy with icons for a padlock, surveillance eye, password field, and encryption shield.With security breaches seemingly becoming more commonplace, Kristin Briney and Becky Yoose’s Managing Data for Patron Privacy: Comprehensive Strategies for Libraries arrives at an all-too-important moment to inform library workers of their role in handling patron data. This extensive how-to guide, which spans ten chapters, explores relevant themes impacting library patrons, including the overall security of data, current risks in various library settings, and a given library’s current patron data management process. Rooted in their work in consultancy for research data management and extensive experience in library data in various library settings, Briney and Yoose signal to readers not only a sense of urgency but passion for discussing this critical topic.

Reviewed by forum participant Jasmine Shumaker.

Yoose, B. & Briney, K. (2022). Managing data for patron privacy: Comprehensive strategies for libraries. ALA Editions. https://search.worldcat.org/title/1295618296

Contributor: Jasmine Shumaker, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

 

 

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