When: Oct 29, Nov 5, and Nov 12
Where: Online, Zoom Webinar
Cost: $50 per webinar or $100 when you register for all three webinars.
Register by October 27, 2026, for the series discount!
Program #: 332327
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Questions? Email the CE Team
Join experts for a series of engaging and practical webinars on data and information privacy. Whether you are exploring ways your library can better protect patron privacy or looking for strategies to educate your patrons, you’ll find a session that meets your needs.
Each webinar will be streamed live with human generated captions. Recordings, complete with captions, will be available to registered attendees for 60 days following the end of the series.
- Protecting Patrons’ Data Privacy with Digital Vendors
- Data Privacy Disco: Creating Engaging Data Programming for Library Patrons
- Data and Information Privacy in Practice: A Faculty Panel Discussion
The Information School is committed to creating an inclusive and accessible event. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact the iSchool CE Team at ce-info@ischool.wisc.edu at least two weeks in advance of the conference. We will attempt to implement late requests but cannot guarantee they will be met.
Protecting Patrons’ Data Privacy with Digital Vendors
Dorothea Salo, Distinguished Teaching Faculty, UW Madison iSchool
Oct 29, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM CST
Registration closes Oct 27 at 12:00 PM CST
Privacy is a cornerstone of intellectual freedom. This discussion will identify potential privacy pitfalls in digital library products and provide best practices and guidance on how best to protect people’s data privacy in the library. Join us to learn how libraries can protect user’s privacy on library service and research platforms.
Dorothea Salo is Distinguished Teaching Faculty IV in the University of Wisconsin at Madison’s Information School, where she has taught since 2007 after starting her career as an institutional-repository librarian and open-access advocate. She teaches broadly across information technology, information organization, information security, publishing industries, and information ethics.
Data Privacy Disco: Creating Engaging Data Programming for Library Patrons
Tristan M.K. Draper, Student Success & Engagement Librarian, Beloit College
Nov 5, 2026, 12:00-1:00 PM CST
Registration closes Nov 3 at 12:00 PM CST
Welcome to the data privacy disco! In response to an increase in campus initiatives and student interest around data ethics and privacy, Morse Library staff developed a series of passive programming and synchronous data literacy events. This webinar will discuss several events and programs, including a data privacy window display, an exhibit with grab-and-go resources, an I Love Data party, and a data research guide. This session will discuss how we incorporated student, staff, and faculty feedback around data literacy into our program planning, our process for developing new events, and our successes and pivots from each event.
Tristan M.K. Draper (she/her) is a Student Success & Engagement Librarian at Beloit College. Tristan’s research focuses on intellectual freedom education and gamifying information literacy instruction. She is passionate about helping students develop information literacy skills for classwork, research, and everyday life. Tristan is a co-host of the podcast Librarians Spill the Tea, which discusses scholarly drama and research ethics.
Data and Information Privacy in Practice: A Faculty Panel Discussion
UW Madison Faculty
Nov 12, 2026, 1:00-2:00 PM CST
Registration closes Nov 10 at 12:00 PM CST
In today’s digital environment, people interact with data constantly, but how often do we fully understand how it’s collected, used, and protected? What has changed when it comes to safeguarding personal and research data, and what challenges remain?
Join UW–Madison College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence faculty as they share how they approach data and information privacy in their teaching and research. This panel will explore evolving risks, responsibilities, and strategies for navigating privacy.
Panelists include:
- Emilee Rader, Professor, UW-Madison Information School
- Rahul Chatterjee, Assistant Professor, UW-Madison Computer Sciences
- Bradley Bryant, Teaching Faculty I, UW-Madison Information School
Emilee Rader is a Professor in the Information School, which is part of the College of Computing & Artificial Intelligence at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies how people reason and make choices about data collection and inferences enabled by digital technologies, to discover new ways to help people create information boundaries and protect themselves from privacy violations. Before joining UW-Madison, she was a faculty member in the Department of Media and Information at Michigan State University. Dr. Rader earned her PhD from the University of Michigan School of Information and spent two years at Northwestern University in the Department of Communication Studies, where she was a recipient of the highly competitive Computing Innovation post-doctoral fellowship award from the Computing Research Association. She also has a professional Master’s degree from the Human Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, and worked with an interdisciplinary team of researchers at Motorola Labs in the early 2000’s designing and evaluating applications for mobile technologies. Her work has been funded by several grants from the National Science Foundation, and she primarily publishes in usable privacy and security and human-computer interaction venues.
Bradley Bryant is a Teaching Faculty member in the Information School at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, specializing in information systems, technology, and security. Previously, he served as a Program Director and Cyber Security Instructor at Madison College, where he led multiple curriculum and program development initiatives. He has professional experience in IT systems administration, has obtained several industry certifications (GIAC, ISACA, IAPP, ISC2, CompTIA), and holds an MS in Cybersecurity along with undergraduate degrees in Cybersecurity and Recording Technology.
Rahul Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prof. Chatterjee’s research centers around making technology safe and secure for all users. His current focus is mitigating abuse of digital technologies in intimate partner violence. His research is supported by NIJ/OVC, NSF, Facebook, and Baldwin WI Idea grant awards. He is the founder of Madison Tech Clinic that supports domestic violence survivors in WI who are experiencing technology facilitated abuse. His work has received awards at top security and human-computer interaction (HCI) venues like IEEE S&P (Oakland), ACM CSCW, and ACM CHI. His research work has been covered by several news outlets, including New York Times, Global News, and MIT Tech review