Welcome to this week’s Tip of the Hat! This week’s post is a “back to basics” about de-identification and patron data. Why? After reading a recent article published in the Code4Lib Journal where patron data was not de-identified before combining it with external data sets, now’s a good time as any to remind library workers … Continue reading "So You Want to Work With Patron Data… De-identification Basics"
Reflections on the occasion of a Code4Lib Journal article which deals with non-deidentified patron data. I consider my own time as an editor, why I stepped back, and what might be useful in the future.