[Libs-Or] OLAQ Author Showcase | Ellie Avis & Kelly McElroy | From the Guest Editors

[OLA Communications Committee]

Please download and read the introduction to the Privacy and
Confidentiality issue of the OLA Quarterly, by Ellie Avis and Kelly
McElroy, here:
https://journals3.library.oregonstate.edu/olaq/article/view/vol27_iss1_2

>From their article, “Protecting patron privacy is a core tenet of the
ethics of librarianship. The American Library Association's Privacy: An
Interpretation of the Library Bill of Rights (2019) emphasizes that
protecting the privacy of library users is key to ensuring intellectual
freedom because surveillance and monitoring produce a 'chilling effect on
users' selection, access to, and use of library resources.' In 2005,
librarians in Connecticut made headlines by standing up against the FBI and
the USA Patriot Act to protect patron records (Cowan, 2006). Faced with a
clear threat to privacy, these librarians sued the U.S. government in
defense of their patrons' rights. However, the daily erosion of privacy
facing patrons today is often more insidious and the day-to-day work of
protecting privacy in libraries is less visible.”



Ellie Avis (she/her) is the Collection Manager at Multnomah County Library.
She is a member of the OLA Intellectual Freedom Committee and Tech Services
Roundtable, and has been part of the Library Freedom Project since 2019.
She holds a Master's Degree in City Planning from UC Berkeley and is
currently working on her MLIS. In her free time, Ellie enjoys making and
breaking things, DIY music, and riding her bike.



Kelly McElroy (she/her) is the Student Engagement and Community Outreach
Librarian and an Associate Professor at Oregon State University. She has
been a member of the Library Freedom Project since 2018. Kelly loves to get
people talking about things that matter, whether as a facilitator for
Oregon Humanities' Conversation Project or as an officer for her union,
United Academics OSU.



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