Privacy Literacy

Privacy literacy scholarly communication by collaborators Alexandria Chisholm and Sarah Hartman-Caverly, reference and instruction librarians at Penn State Berks. Chisholm and Hartman-Caverly define privacy literacy as "a suite of knowledge, behaviors, and critical dispositions regarding the information constructs of selfhood, expressive activities, and relationships." Their collaboration examines the emergence of privacy literacy as a focus of information literacy instruction, and examines privacy as a necessary precondition for intellectual freedom and human flourishing, and as a core ethical value of librarianship.