Free Resources
Posters, bookmarks, presentations, and more resources to help with teaching and promoting information democracy, privacy, and intellectual freedom.
All resources are licensed CC-BY-NC (NC in an attempt to avoid AI slop).Refusing artificial intelligence ideology
→ AI FAQ – What’s the deal with AI?: critical answers to common concerns about AI
→ AI ethics explainer: basic ethical issues about AI, its use, and impacts
→ Critical AI talking points: For library workers pushing back on AI hype
Avoiding AI in products and services
→ Remove AI search result: For general audiences as a social media share
→ Avoiding AI: detecting AI marketing buzzwords, symbols, and images in common tools and services
→ Avoiding AI: Adobe Acrobat: Instructions for disabling AI in Adobe Acrobat, plus resources for resisting AI
→ Avoiding AI: Android: how to turn off AI in Android and other ways to resist AI
→ Avoiding AI: Apple: how to turn off AI in iOS and other ways to resist AI
→ Avoiding AI: Gmail: how to turn off AI in Gmail and other ways to resist AI
→ Avoiding AI: Microsoft Office: how to turn off AI in Microsoft Office and other ways to resist AI
→ Avoiding AI: Windows 11: how to turn off AI in Windows 11 and other ways to resist AI
→ Avoiding AI: Yahoo Mail: how to turn off AI in Yahoo Mail and other ways to resist AI
→ Avoiding AI: On Popular Websites: how to turn off AI across the web using uBlock Origin and other ways to resist AI
Messaging
→ Signal best practices | en Español: safer communication with Signal
→Is Signal Safe?: For general audiences as a social media share
Privacy-centric tools and instruction
→ Anti-Amazon Ring flyer: understanding the threats of putting an online camera on your door
→ What is a cookie?| en Español: understanding digital “cookies”
→ All about data brokers explainer: understanding how our data is bought and sold online
→ Data privacy best practices: quick reference for library workers
→ Facial recognition basics | en Español: understanding the threats of facial recognition technology in flyer form
→ Facial recognition basics| En Español: understanding the threats of facial recognition technology in depth, in poster form
→ Finsta issue 1: understanding Big Data issues
→ Finsta issue 2: Issue 2 in a zine series for youth to understand Big Data issues
→ Finsta issue 3: Issue 3 in a zine series for youth to understand Big Data issues
→ Passwords zine: For general audiences to understand how to make strong passwords
→ Privacy mini modules | facilitator’s guide: short modules for library workers teaching about privacy
→ Privacy 101: ad-blocking: understanding how and why to block ads on the web
→ Privacy 101: fundamentals: keys to understanding where to start with privacy concepts and tools
→ Privacy 101: avoiding scams: a few tips for avoiding scams
→ Privacy 101: permissions: understanding application permissions and privacy
→ Privacy 101: data minimization: understanding how and why to minimize data
→ Privacy 101: messaging basics | en Español: understanding secure messaging
→ Reading recommendations focused on privacy (sci-fi and speculative fiction)
→ Scams and fraud zine: For general audiences to help protect themselves against scams
→ Avoiding digital scams | en Español: For general audiences to avoid scams and fraud
→ Threat modeling zine: For general audiences to understand the concept of “threat modeling” or personalizing privacy
Tech dependence
→ “Why can’t I stop looking at my phone?”: explainer on tech addiction
→ From the Ocean to Your Computer: info about internet hardware, resource consumption, and governance
Support for Academic Workers
→ Preventative measures against doxxing: supporting academic workers against doxxing and harassment
→ Emergency protocols against doxxing: an emergency checklist for academic workers experiencing doxxing or online harassment
→ Advice for institutions and advocates: understanding online harassment and doxxing threats to academia and academic workers
→Talking points about doxxing for academic workers
→ Advice poster for dealing with online abuse, stalking, social engineering
General Audience Support
→ Guide to online harassment booklet
→ Stalkerware flyer English | en Español
Auditing practices
→ Data collection audits for public libraries
→ Privacy audit best practices
→ Vendor privacy policy scorecard: LFP’s analysis of library vendor privacy policies in response to NISO’s 2018 Consensus Principles
Policy-making
→ Privacy policy template for libraries
→ Responding to law enforcement in libraries
Collections and e-resource management
→ Questions to ask e-resource vendors about AI
→ Questions to ask e-resource vendors about privacy and security
→ Checklist to audit e-resource vendor policies for privacy and security
→ Evaluating health info flyer | En Español: understanding health info and misinformation
→ Quick guide to HIPAA and ADA: understanding the privacy implications of health documentation & policy
→ Reproductive justice in libraries: library worker assistance for people seeking information about reproductive care and health access
→Intellectual Freedom Talking Points: library worker messaging around intellectual freedom
→ Library values for board members: communicating with library board members about librarianship values
→ Responding to “First Amendment Audits”: library worker response tactics
Sam Buechler
LFP Member
As an academic librarian I’m frequently having to explain to administrators why I won’t collect patron and library use data – LFP has provided me with the knowledge, skills, and community to do this effectively.