Introduction
About This Guide
Understanding Confidentiality and Risk Assessment: A Reference Guide for Everyone, Everywhere was developed by Library Futures Staff Attorney Layla Maurer as part of Library Futures’s work supporting libraries in contract negotiations. The resources herein are meant to help librarians understand confidentiality and risk in order to empower them to read, understand, and negotiate library-vendor contracts. Nothing within this guide constitutes legal advice. Specific questions should always be addressed to qualified counsel.
About Library Futures
Library Futures is the vanguard nonprofit organization uncovering and confronting the fundamental policy issues that threaten libraries in the digital age. We believe librarians, policymakers, and community leaders deserve a new approach to digital rights so they can protect, advocate for, and advance a fair digital future for libraries and the communities they serve. Library Futures meets this need with fresh research, visionary policy and advocacy initiatives, and engaging education programs.
Library Futures is a project of the Engelberg Center on Innovation Law & Policy at New York University School of Law.
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