Access & Privacy Special Interest Section

The ACA Access & Privacy Special Interest Section (SIS) will be holding a meeting for anyone interested on Thursday March 12th at 11 am MT (1pm ET).

Please feel free to join the meeting if you’re interested in information access and privacy as  a social value, citizen right and as it pertains to your institutional holdings.

The SIS seeks to establish a foundation for archivists to openly connect and share perspectives on access to information, access and privacy practices, and archival access more broadly.

If you’re interested in matters relating to the acquisition and management of personal information, or access more broadly as an archival duty, please feel free to join the group.

Topics of interest include access services and barriers to accessing archives, user experience and access to archives, access rights, understanding privacy, how access & privacy laws apply to public & private sector archives, and the various challenges that coincide with disclosure. Identifying steps and strategies for implementing privacy compliant business practices can also be considered.

The group will be open to tabling concerns of archivists related to privacy ethics & principles and access to information issues for general awareness and knowledge sharing.