The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the National Information Standards Organization a grant to develop a Consensus Framework to Support Patron Privacy in Digital Library and Information Systems. The grant will support a series of community discussions on how libraries, publishers and information systems providers can build better privacy protection into their operations and the subsequent formulation of a framework document on the privacy of patron data in these systems. 

Each of the discussion sessions are three-hour web-based session designed to lay the groundwork for a productive in-person meeting at the conclusion of the American Library Association meeting in San Francisco, CA on Monday and Tuesday, June 29-30, 2015. 

FREE LIVE-STREAM AVAILABLE: For those interested in this work, NISO will be live-streaming the day and a half in-person event. Credentials for login will be provided closer to the event date; please make sure to designate your attendance as "virtual" in the RSVP form so that we may be sure to communicate that information to you. For planning purposes, please RSVP by Thursday, June 25.

Following the in-person meeting, a Framework document will be completed detailing the privacy principles and recommendations agreed to by the participants, and then circulated for public comment and finalization. More information, including a version of the project proposal and virtual meeting output, is available on the NISO website at: http://www.niso.org/topics/tl/patron_privacy/