Privacy Literacy: From Curious to Confident

Presenter: Sarah Hartman-Caverly is an Associate Librarian in Penn State University Libraries at Penn State Berks, where she liaises with Engineering, Business and Computing division programs. Sarah delivered her first privacy literacy workshop, Is Big Data Big Brother?, in 2014, and co-facilitated professional learning communities on privacy topics in 2017 and 2021. Sarah’s research examines the compatibility of human and machine autonomy from the perspective of intellectual freedom, and she has published and presented on privacy literacy as part of this work. She earned her MS(LIS) and MS Information Systems from Drexel University College of Computing & Informatics (then iSchool), and holds a BA Anthropology from Haverford College.

Presenter: Alexandria Chisholm is an Associate Librarian at Penn State Berks and liaison to the campus’ first year experience program and science division. She has over a decade of reference and instruction experience at both private and public baccalaureate- and doctoral-degree granting institutions. Alex’s research focuses on privacy literacy, with special attention on digital wellness and algorithmic transparency, as well as information literacy and student engagement. She earned her MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Computing and Information, and holds a BA in Anthropology from West Chester University of Pennsylvania.

Together, Alex and Sarah created the Association of College and Research Libraries Instruction Section (ACRL IS) 2021 Innovation Award-winning Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Initiative and co-edited the 2023 volume, Practicing Privacy Literacy in Academic Libraries: Theories, Methods, and Cases (ACRL). Their work has been cited by ACRL and EDUCAUSE and includes the Digital Shred Privacy Workshop Series, comprising the Privacy, Digital Professionalism, Digital Shred, Digital Wellness, Private Bits: Privacy, Intimacy, and Consent, Hidden Layer: Intellectual Privacy and Generative AI, and Data Justice: Examining Discriminating Systems & Tech Power workshops; collaborative privacy literacy research; and the Digital Shred Privacy Literacy Toolkit.