SAA Privacy & Confidentiality Section (2022 Meeting)

DESCRIPTION
The Privacy and Confidentiality Section meeting will feature two presentations in addition to the business meeting. UC San Diego Library Program Director of Scholarship Tools and Methods Heather Briston will present “Navigating privacy, confidentiality, and sensitivity in backlog and older collections”; Bentley Historical Library Lead Archivist for University Archives Aprille Cooke McKay will present “Negotiating a new access policy for the academic records of deceased students at the University of Michigan.” These presentations will be followed by time for audience Q&A. While the business meeting portion of the Section meeting will be recorded and made available for those unable to attend, the presentations and Q&A will not be recorded.

SPEAKERS
Heather Briston is the Director of the Scholarship Tools and Methods program which includes the digital library, scholarly communications, reformatting services, GIS and maps, and data services at the UC San Diego Library. She received her MSI (Archives and Records Management) from the University of Michigan, a Juris Doctor from Syracuse University, focusing on intellectual property law. She is a member and past chair of the Society of American Archivists’ Working Group on Intellectual Property. She taught over twenty workshops for the Society of American Archivists focusing on legal issues in archives. She is the author of “Understanding Copyright Law” in Trends in Archives Practice: Rights in the Digital Era, and several book chapters addressing legal issues in archival collections.

Aprille McKay is the Lead Archivist for University Archives at the Bentley Historical Library at the University of Michigan, where her work includes collection development planning, fieldwork, appraisal, and accessioning of university-related collections. In addition to an MSI degree from UM’s School of Information, she earned a law degree from the University of Chicago. Aprille has been the chair of SAA’s Intellectual Property Working Group since 2013 and is a co-author (with Menzi Behrnd-Klein and Heather Briston) of SAA’s book Rights in the Digital Era.


ACCESS
Live (Portions Will Be Recorded)


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