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Labor

2021-02-10T16:25:48Z

Ruthtillman: /* Communication and Shared Working Spaces */

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries]. Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ==

* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group Ask to join.]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

Most of our collaborative writing and meeting minutes are now done using Google Drive. We have also used RiseUpPad for occasions when we want to create a more anonymous context.

== Resources ==

* This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums: [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] and ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]). (ongoing)
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit] (2020)
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)

== SubGroups ==

Note: as of Feb 2021, Amy Wickner has transitioned off the Valuing Labor subgroup and we're welcoming three new co-facilitators for Valuing Labor. We're planning a whole group meeting to discuss possible new subgroups and one-off projects.

=== Contingency and Precarity ===
Facilitators: Sandy Rodriguez, Ruth Tillman

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

==== Goals 2020 ====
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

==== Activities ====
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

==== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ====

=== Valuing Labor ===
Facilitators: Stephanie Bennett, Leanne Finnigan, Ellen LeClere

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

==== Activities ====
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

==== Meetings ====
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2021-02-10T16:24:09Z

Ruthtillman:

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries]. Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ==

* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group Ask to join.]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

== Resources ==

* This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums: [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] and ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]). (ongoing)
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit] (2020)
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)

== SubGroups ==

Note: as of Feb 2021, Amy Wickner has transitioned off the Valuing Labor subgroup and we're welcoming three new co-facilitators for Valuing Labor. We're planning a whole group meeting to discuss possible new subgroups and one-off projects.

=== Contingency and Precarity ===
Facilitators: Sandy Rodriguez, Ruth Tillman

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

==== Goals 2020 ====
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

==== Activities ====
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

==== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ====

=== Valuing Labor ===
Facilitators: Stephanie Bennett, Leanne Finnigan, Ellen LeClere

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

==== Activities ====
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

==== Meetings ====
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2021-02-10T16:23:28Z

Ruthtillman: headers

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

=== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ===

* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group Ask to join.]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

== Resources ==

* This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums: [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] and ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]). (ongoing)
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit] (2020)
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)

== SubGroups ==

Note: as of Feb 2021, Amy Wickner has transitioned off the Valuing Labor subgroup and we're welcoming three new co-facilitators for Valuing Labor. We're planning a whole group meeting to discuss possible new subgroups and one-off projects.

=== Contingency and Precarity ===
Facilitators: Sandy Rodriguez, Ruth Tillman

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

==== Goals 2020 ====
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

==== Activities ====
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

==== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ====

=== Valuing Labor ===
Facilitators: Stephanie Bennett, Leanne Finnigan, Ellen LeClere

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

==== Activities ====
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

==== Meetings ====
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2021-02-10T16:19:59Z

Ruthtillman: /* Communication and Shared Working Spaces */

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

=== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ===

* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group Ask to join.]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

== Resources ==

* This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums: [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] and ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]). (ongoing)
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit] (2020)
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)

== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Goals 2020 ===
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

=== Activities ===
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity] (2017- )

=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===

== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)

=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2021-02-10T16:19:39Z

Ruthtillman: /* Resources */ Collecting all the resources in one space

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

=== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ===

* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. Ask to join [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

== Resources ==

* This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums: [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] and ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]). (ongoing)
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit] (2020)
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)

== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Goals 2020 ===
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

=== Activities ===
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity] (2017- )

=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===

== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)

=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2021-02-10T16:17:18Z

Ruthtillman:

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

=== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ===

* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. Ask to join [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

== Resources ==

[[Labor/Resources|resource table]] ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]).

== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Goals 2020 ===
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

=== Activities ===
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity] (2017- )

=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===

== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)

=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2021-02-10T16:16:13Z

Ruthtillman: /* Communication Channels */

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

=== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ===

* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. Ask to join [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Goals 2020 ===
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

=== Activities ===
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity] (2017- )

=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===

== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)

=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2021-02-10T16:06:33Z

Ruthtillman:

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

=== Communication Channels ===

TO JOIN: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZFHPau0SXuGs3pqzY74yltw3yhRt9x8zCnunZrC4xpKilMQ/viewform?usp=sf_link request an invitation to the google group].

As of April, 2017, this group is forming two smaller working groups with two facilitators each, based on themes pulled from member introductions and responses to the initial interest survey (now closed).

Both subgroups are collecting citations, related groups and initiatives, and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg a Zotero group] and [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]).

== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Goals 2020 ===
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

=== Activities ===
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
** constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity] (2017- )

=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===

== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)

=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2020-01-31T16:29:18Z

Ruthtillman: /* Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums */

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

TO JOIN: [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZFHPau0SXuGs3pqzY74yltw3yhRt9x8zCnunZrC4xpKilMQ/viewform?usp=sf_link request an invitation to the google group].

As of April, 2017, this group is forming two smaller working groups with two facilitators each, based on themes pulled from member introductions and responses to the initial interest survey (now closed). Join a sub-group by filling out [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOHRLXfTLn2B-quqLbrVLS_JHsnsHAGrX_867BYthEKr9cSw/viewform this form].

Both subgroups are collecting citations, related groups and initiatives, and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group] and [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]).

== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Goals 2020 ===
* Develop toolkit for labor advocacy
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

=== Goals 2019 ===
As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum:
* developing a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
* constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1]
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents]

=== Goals 2018 ===
* finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant
* conducting a survey on the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers

=== Deliverables ===
* guideline publication through DLF

=== Goals 2017 ===
* organizing and setting up logistics for communication;
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity;
* analyzing and sharing readings to determine scope of work;
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums]
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVt7JhlRZapZdk4jefOsi9gLxuj1OOEZXAznoeLeYrA/ First working draft of the guidelines (comment period closed)]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C0VSpyM4z5co9BrrhgQX0Jtvhc79Wtmlq_va4kQYiR0/edit?usp=sharing Second working draft of the guidelines (comment period closed)]

=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===

== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner (Melissa Chalmers, on leave)

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?

=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)

=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2020-01-31T16:21:10Z

Ruthtillman: /* Contingency and Precarity */

This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries].

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

TO JOIN: please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].

As of April, 2017, this group is forming two smaller working groups with two facilitators each, based on themes pulled from member introductions and responses to the initial interest survey (now closed). Join a sub-group by filling out [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOHRLXfTLn2B-quqLbrVLS_JHsnsHAGrX_867BYthEKr9cSw/viewform this form].

Both subgroups are collecting citations, related groups and initiatives, and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group] and [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]).

== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Goals 2020 ===
* Develop toolkit for labor advocacy
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.

=== Goals 2019 ===
As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum:
* developing a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
* constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1]
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents]

=== Goals 2018 ===
* finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant
* conducting a survey on the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers

=== Deliverables ===
* guideline publication through DLF

=== Goals 2017 ===
* organizing and setting up logistics for communication;
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity;
* analyzing and sharing readings to determine scope of work;
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions

=== Deliverables ===
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums]
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVt7JhlRZapZdk4jefOsi9gLxuj1OOEZXAznoeLeYrA/ First working draft of the guidelines (comment period closed)]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C0VSpyM4z5co9BrrhgQX0Jtvhc79Wtmlq_va4kQYiR0/edit?usp=sharing Second working draft of the guidelines (comment period closed)]

=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===

== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner (Melissa Chalmers, on leave)

Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities

=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?

=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)

=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Labor

2018-02-22T13:46:44Z

Ruthtillman: Added 2017 updates for Contingency/Precarity

Labor

2017-10-23T17:42:07Z

Ruthtillman: Changed it from new to ongoing

Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes

2017-09-18T13:15:22Z

Ruthtillman: Added new minutes

Labor/2017-09-15

2017-09-18T13:14:33Z

Ruthtillman: Meeting minutes from 2017-09-15 meeting

'''DLF WG on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives and Museums'''

'''''Contingency/Precarity Subgroup'''''

'''Note-taker:''' Ruth Kitchin Tillman. Names redacted.

== Determining purpose of the meeting ==

Creating a rough outline from which the statement/guidance/best practices could be written.

'''Working from:''' [[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1U5rvVdz6KuWxfLwNrpbW40hBzOEJuch4e1ZyuQcn5zQ/edit]]

'''Structure:'''
* Proposal: MLA statement?
* Or SAA statements, these are not uniformly are broken down into areas and do about a paragraph each.
Consider do we want to make 10 guidelines an upper number?

'''Timeline for comments ON OUTLINE:'''
* Go to contingency/precarity group now?
* Then go to entire group about 2 weeks before conference?
* At the DLF Forum meeting: Deciding more about what groups we'd like to circulate it to for comment? What do we want to circulate it to for endorsement? Public call for comment?

== Draft Outline ==

=== Introduction ===

'''Context'''
* Encourage granting agencies to endorse/support these & encourage people to create these kinds of jobs/prioritize grants to these kinds of jobs.
* [How do we write something in the context of knowing that grant recipients range from 1-person shops to enormous institutions and we don't want to prioritize only enormous/wealth institutions. What can we ask from the granting institution to provide as assurances for 1-person shops.]

'''Guiding principles/statements:'''
* Grants as opportunities to ask for something that treats people well. (citing Implications of Archival Labor, maybe we recommend creating one healthy position vs. two underfunded one) Doing more than meets minimum.
* From student collaborator's bill of rights, the acknowledgement that we're creating unequal positions (add something here about job security)
* Graduate part/time vs. full-time. Paragraph on application and the need for consideration of what benefits the person taking the position? Consider area/availability/etc.

Acknowledgements to other statements?

=== Guidance ===

'''Salary/Benefits/etc. (we should rename but compensation)'''
* In context of lack of job security
* Consideration of hours/full-time/prioritized over part-time esp multiple part-times. (considering whether you're looking for a grad student or professional)
Market rate (considered range) - area, compensation for comparable work in the institution, degree/education required (understanding of debt)
* Planning for a raise and professional development.
* Benefits: health is fundamental, but what other benefits do their colleagues have? Giving them similar equity to others in the department.
* Acknowledging agency of person in fulfilling the grant's goals (e.g. focus, etc.)

'''Nature of Work'''
* Recommendation for intellectual vs. just mechanical labor, asking what the person in the grant-funded position is supposed to get out of this--does it depend on the kind of position we're creating?
* That grant-funded work shouldn't be used to cover regular duties/that regular duties which arise should be valued and funded institutionally.
* Considering scope--DACS proposed principles talk about only accepting collections which can be made accessible in a reasonable amount of time. What does it look like for an institution to only take on grants when they can provide fundamentals like supervision and mentoring? [This may also tie to institutional capacity, but...]
* Include information about whether this is a start-up project or something that the organization has done before. Give some insight to how much experience the organization has with this type of project.

=== References ===
Sometime a decision should be made if we cite what we read or what really influenced us?

Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes

2017-08-02T20:31:31Z

Ruthtillman: added more minutes

[[Labor/2017-05-24 | Minutes from the Contingency-Precarity meeting on 2017-05-24]]

[[Labor/2017-07-21 | Minutes from the Contingency-Precarity meeting on 2017-07-21]]

tl;dr - our first step is collecting statement documents and statements put out from various groups and evaluating those. We’ll need to define what we consider “contingency/precarity” and what hole we’re trying to fill.

Labor/2017-07-21

2017-08-02T20:29:46Z

Ruthtillman: Created a page with the minutes from the July 21 meeting.

'''DLF WG on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives and Museums'''

'''''Contingency/Precarity Subgroup'''''

'''Note-taker:''' Ruth Kitchin Tillman. Names redacted.

== Recommendation for further reading ==

[[http://www.opencon2017.org/diversity_equity_inclusion_report OpenCon guide for planning an inclusive conference]]

== Conversations About Readings ==

=== A Student Collaborators' Bill of Rights ===

* How we think about how education is provided through student labor--can we apply some of this to the early-career nature of grants.
* Acknowledgement of power in the academic hierarchy. Principles. Pay, credit.
* When you’re paying someone to do work, there’s certain things you owe them, when someone’s unpaid, then they merit pay in terms of teaching. You can’t set/forget it. Something lacking - There’s mention of paying them but not of what you should pay them. Indication that you should be paying a liveable wage for this work would be useful.
* Liked the distinction between types of work in a student context. “Mechanical” vs. “Intellectual” labor.
* building on previous, similar in a grant context - expectation that someone fresh out of library school might take a short-term grant, might learn a very specific skill, but how does that relate to the larger type of work that you might need to learn. Grant positions need to have the same thought put into them as graduate internships.
* building prof dev funds and time into the grant. x% of their time will be spent on professional development.
* connects to Keepers of the Digital Future. We should look to them for the intellectual support.
* Giving a certain degree of agency. There is a rigidity to the expectations of the grant that’s paying your salary, but where do you have the chance to explore your interests. A student may have more opportunity to select. You’re expected to promote the grant. Also how much are you a part of or not a part of the institution.

=== All Labor is Local ===

* thinking about labor as not just within an institution, but also recognizing that people also have care labor outside of work, such as childcare or elder care. Can those kinds of responsibilities be factored into how we pay people in grant positions? Also thinking about community, and recognizing the way that grant labor can uproot people and drop them into unfamiliar places. Are there ways that grant positions could better integrate the people in them into communities? Could that be part of our recommendations?

=== Implications of Archival Labor ===

* Historian who didn’t realize that the beautiful boxes with finding aids don’t appear out of thin air. They didn’t understand or respect any of that work until they’d encountered it beforehand. Archivists have a lot of practices which limit our own ways of doing outreach--hours, difficulties for people with disabilities, colonizing topics, asking people to consider the work we do and the ability to come and use the archives a privilege vs. any kind of collaboration.
* Reccs: Building equitable salaries. Maybe we can only hire one person at a fair rate and we should focus on creating that better job and expose the labor of those who work behind the scenes. Why do we feel like these are the only ways we feel like we can get this done? What do we do when coming up against university policies and states laws and such? Advocating for changes at a higher level.
* (also, we kind of hide things that aren’t processed)

=== Grant Cycles, Deadlines, and Labor Advocacy: The Changing Work of Project Archivists ===

* the presentation is really explicit about the kinds of salaries people were making and whether or not they got raises. Should we add raises and that people should at least have room for a cost-of-living raise?
* can we give people more kinds of venues to talk about that kind of thing.

=== MLA Statement on the Use of Part-Time and Full-Time Adjunct Faculty Members ===

* the ratio of hard-funded vs. soft-funded vs. students (and volunteer) stood out to her. How does that tie in to valuing what we do. Has research been done on comparing this recommendation to what people did. Brings up Graduate Students losing positions to adjuncting positions.
* super disappointed that this was from 1994. How do we hope to issue some kind of statement that’ll have impact. What kind of power can we assert?
* I found it interesting that the statement specifically argues that graduate students are distinct from tenure-track and adjunct instructors. In my experience, I've not seen that distinction so clearly. Often grad students have to choose between limited departmental funding for TAing, or limited adjunct compensation. It's not a fun choice.
* these guidelines are overly kind-of nice. How could it have been worded differently, more strongly.
* referencing OpenCon’s document (now linked at the top of the document)

=== Guidelines for Using Volunteers in Libraries ===

*From 1971, have to read between lines to find applicability to today’s situations. Impressed with a point they made that any programs that come out of volunteer activity need to eventually employ staff (whether volunteer or something else). A different kind of context because this is more for people in local communities.

=== Keepers of Our Digital Future ===

* seemed more like the goal was to understand NDSR as a program and how it may teach recent graduates the skills they need in order to get skills in the digital world. But a lot of the conclusions and recommendations toward the end, a lot were focused on labor practices. Perhaps because they’re precarious and they’re only one year long. She thought the conclusions were clear and specific and meant for folks who may be interested in starting some sort of similar program. Making recommendations recognizing that our audience will probably be the folks who do care.
* Far too long for our purposes. Most people aren’t going to get through something like this.

=== Best Practices for Internships as a Component of Graduate Archival Education ===

* This is one based off of Public History. They address on the landing page that they don’t recommend being unpaid, but otherwise try to meet every other requirement. How much do we want to present a framework of “this is the best practice” and not even give people an out. If there’s some authority, people will feel less room for getting an out. Something significant should come out of it, some kind of deliverable they can use in their portfolio. Evaluations. We should fight the need for unpaid internships. Not replacing full-time staff.
* So, we need to make it possible to fail to meet the guidelines, and indicate that there's no real good reason for that?
* that statement comes up in a lot of these documents, maybe it’s not specific enough. They shouldn’t be doing work that’s operational is more specific than what’s in SAA recommendations. It’s not followed because we just wouldn’t X without the intern.

=== SAA Best Practices for Volunteers ==

* “Individuals should not serve as volunteers to for-profit, private sector institutions.”
* Recommends DACS principles which talk about accepting collections that we can make accessible in a reasonable amount of time and can become a thing that we tie to and what kinds of responsibilities people should take on, including in grants, based on what they can reasonable and ethically do.

== In terms of asserting our recommendations ==

* we don’t want to sound like the MLA ones which are perhaps a little too dreamy
* look at OpenCon’s recommendations http://www.opencon2017.org/diversity_equity_inclusion_report

Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes

2017-06-01T17:29:21Z

Ruthtillman: Added a tl;dr

[[Labor/2017-05-24 | Minutes from the Contingency-Precarity meeting on 2017-05-24]]

tl;dr - our first step is collecting statement documents and statements put out from various groups and evaluating those. We’ll need to define what we consider “contingency/precarity” and what hole we’re trying to fill.

Labor

2017-06-01T16:47:01Z

Ruthtillman: /* Contingency and Precarity */ Added a link to the minutes page for Contingency/Precarity

This is a page for a newly-forming DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries]. Look for more info on this group's meetings and activities soon!

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/archives/13524/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

TO JOIN: please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].

As of April, 2017, this group is forming two smaller working groups with two facilitators each, based on themes pulled from member introductions and responses to the initial interest survey (now closed). Join a sub-group by filling out [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOHRLXfTLn2B-quqLbrVLS_JHsnsHAGrX_867BYthEKr9cSw/viewform this form].

Both subgroups are collecting citations and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group].

=== Contingency and Precarity ===
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Potential topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

[[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]]

=== Valuing Labor ===
Facilitators: Melissa Chalmers, Amy Wickner

Potential topics: Student labor, student loans, (in)visibility, service, emotional labor, maintenance, labor ethics, apprenticeships, internships, pre-professional training, acculturation, “fit,” hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities, professionalization, credential creep / credentialism, labor and digital scholarship

Labor/2017-05-24

2017-05-24T19:19:31Z

Ruthtillman: /* Outcomes */

'''DLF WG on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives and Museums'''
'''''Contingency/Precarity Subgroup'''''

'''Note-taker:''' Sandy Rodriguez

== Introductions ==
5-7 min (2:00-2:07)

Ruth Tillman, Univ of Notre Dame, initiated Labor WG, Contingency/Precarity subgroup
Amy Wickner, PhD student & Archivist, Univ of Maryland, co-facilitator of Valuing Labor subgroup
Charlotte Kostelic, NDSR resident at Library of Congress, interested in writing recommendations for contingent & precarious positions
Sandy Rodriguez, UMKC, Special Collections, interested in writing recommendations for contingent & precarious positions
Ethan Fenichel, eResource Access Management Librarian at Florida Atlantic University, interested in learning about this issue as well as how unions can help with the contingency/precarity issues
Liza Harrell-Edge, Manager of Digital Initiatives at The New School, interested in recommendations for managers supervising contingent positions

=== Focus & Goals ===
23-25 min (until about 2:30)

'''Topics already suggested'''

* analysis of effects on marginalized communities and our ability to hire and retain applicants from those communities
* apprenticeship (positions and as a concept), pre-professional training, acculturation, student loan debt impact on career
* Maintenance, gender, race
* Use of prisoner labor; credential creep
* Student Labor, Labor Ethics
* student labor in libraries & archives
* Labor in digital projects

'''Goals already suggested'''

* creating guidelines
* Standards and volunteer work on digitization projects
* Creation of ethics statements

=== Discussion during Meeting ===

* Interest in basic creation of contingent positions.
* Sense of landscape of what guidance is out there; pre-work informing the guidelines (so a sort of bibliography?)
* Modern Languages Association has something similar to this
* NDSR report
* Are we influencing management in organizations? Survival guides or both?
* Survival guides are great but puts a lot of the onus on the individual
* Good place to talk about this. Valuing Labor Group doing a panel at the DLF Forum. Influence management and/or for grant writers to plan the work responsibly.
* When she was reading the report which came back on the NDSR--it was relevant to the resident experience but there were recommendation which could be generalized. Was in a contingent position supervising contingent staff, an entire team that was grant-funded. Has done a presentation in the past which was focused on the people side/impact on people involved in the positions. Cause complications in managing.
* One of our to-dos is a shared document of what resources are available. Critique other guidelines that are similar. Pull them together and analyze them.
* How do we define someone in a precarious position? For myself, in a one year renewable position, but could not be considered precarious depending upon perspective. Perhaps we need to define this first.
* Differences in position, e.g., tenure-track vs. professional non-tenure track position. Understanding different models and how precarity is interpreted & defined to different people.
* Challenging the creation of precarious positions for professionals vs. tenure-track. Example: Vacant faculty positions being turned into term, staff position.
* Experience of having 5 positions eliminated this week messaging and advocacy of value of what we do. Emerging and developing vs. what is core. How to speak about the value of digital libraries. Impacts the ability to get positions that we value and building institutional knowledge.
* Where does this project-based model come from? Seems to be tied to grant funding. Industries informing models.
* We can contextualize the labor issues.
* Zotero group can be used for sharing resources. To store references and comment on them. Google Docs could be used for internal collaboration.

== Outcomes ==
15 min (2:30-2:45)

* Research & Analysis. Create a bibliography of what resources exist, including any pre-existing bibliographies. Assign different resources & provide a summary & analysis.
* Definition of Our Working Space. Finding our gap for what guidelines are required. Pinning down a definition for contingency and precarity. Figuring out what those mean.
* Case Studies? Scenarios/stories of different people who’ve had different kinds of contingent positions. See if it exists and decided if we want to conduct interviews.
* Concern over how we can anonymize the stories.
* Questions: Did you get relocation assistance?, etc. Women archivists survey had some of these questions. Should we reach out to them?

=== Resources ===
* http://letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com/
* http://inalj.com/
* https://eatingouryoung.wordpress.com/

=== Logistics and Resources ===

* Twitter and Slack channels
* Labor Working Group session at 2017 DLF Forum (October 23-25)
* Lunchtime WG session proposed and will be disseminated when scheduled
* Valuing Labor subgroup proposing a presentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOJ9R-Xhmj5EKCOoltB3WfCbd0TGXqnLxHmYlPl6OGI/edit
* Zotero group: https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items
* DLF working group wiki: https://wiki.diglib.org/Labor
* Collaboration tools or strategies?
* Slack or Google Group? Ruth can set up a Slack for the whole group, 2 starting channels for both groups.
* Breaking down working on particular tasks, but this project might not lend itself so well with that. Start with pulling the resources together first.
* Ruth: Schedule a follow-up meeting at the end of June.
* All: Pull together resources prior to our next meeting. Summarize and analyze resources.

Labor/2017-05-24

2017-05-24T19:19:11Z

Ruthtillman: Anonymizing and posting the meeting notes from today.

'''DLF WG on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives and Museums'''
'''''Contingency/Precarity Subgroup'''''

'''Note-taker:''' Sandy Rodriguez

== Introductions ==
5-7 min (2:00-2:07)

Ruth Tillman, Univ of Notre Dame, initiated Labor WG, Contingency/Precarity subgroup
Amy Wickner, PhD student & Archivist, Univ of Maryland, co-facilitator of Valuing Labor subgroup
Charlotte Kostelic, NDSR resident at Library of Congress, interested in writing recommendations for contingent & precarious positions
Sandy Rodriguez, UMKC, Special Collections, interested in writing recommendations for contingent & precarious positions
Ethan Fenichel, eResource Access Management Librarian at Florida Atlantic University, interested in learning about this issue as well as how unions can help with the contingency/precarity issues
Liza Harrell-Edge, Manager of Digital Initiatives at The New School, interested in recommendations for managers supervising contingent positions

=== Focus & Goals ===
23-25 min (until about 2:30)

'''Topics already suggested'''

* analysis of effects on marginalized communities and our ability to hire and retain applicants from those communities
* apprenticeship (positions and as a concept), pre-professional training, acculturation, student loan debt impact on career
* Maintenance, gender, race
* Use of prisoner labor; credential creep
* Student Labor, Labor Ethics
* student labor in libraries & archives
* Labor in digital projects

'''Goals already suggested'''

* creating guidelines
* Standards and volunteer work on digitization projects
* Creation of ethics statements

=== Discussion during Meeting ===

* Interest in basic creation of contingent positions.
* Sense of landscape of what guidance is out there; pre-work informing the guidelines (so a sort of bibliography?)
* Modern Languages Association has something similar to this
* NDSR report
* Are we influencing management in organizations? Survival guides or both?
* Survival guides are great but puts a lot of the onus on the individual
* Good place to talk about this. Valuing Labor Group doing a panel at the DLF Forum. Influence management and/or for grant writers to plan the work responsibly.
* When she was reading the report which came back on the NDSR--it was relevant to the resident experience but there were recommendation which could be generalized. Was in a contingent position supervising contingent staff, an entire team that was grant-funded. Has done a presentation in the past which was focused on the people side/impact on people involved in the positions. Cause complications in managing.
* One of our to-dos is a shared document of what resources are available. Critique other guidelines that are similar. Pull them together and analyze them.
* How do we define someone in a precarious position? For myself, in a one year renewable position, but could not be considered precarious depending upon perspective. Perhaps we need to define this first.
* Differences in position, e.g., tenure-track vs. professional non-tenure track position. Understanding different models and how precarity is interpreted & defined to different people.
* Challenging the creation of precarious positions for professionals vs. tenure-track. Example: Vacant faculty positions being turned into term, staff position.
* Experience of having 5 positions eliminated this week messaging and advocacy of value of what we do. Emerging and developing vs. what is core. How to speak about the value of digital libraries. Impacts the ability to get positions that we value and building institutional knowledge.
* Where does this project-based model come from? Seems to be tied to grant funding. Industries informing models.
* We can contextualize the labor issues.
* Zotero group can be used for sharing resources. To store references and comment on them. Google Docs could be used for internal collaboration.

== Outcomes ==
15 min (2:30-2:45)

- Research & Analysis. Create a bibliography of what resources exist, including any pre-existing bibliographies. Assign different resources & provide a summary & analysis.
- Definition of Our Working Space. Finding our gap for what guidelines are required. Pinning down a definition for contingency and precarity. Figuring out what those mean.
- Case Studies? Scenarios/stories of different people who’ve had different kinds of contingent positions. See if it exists and decided if we want to conduct interviews.
- Concern over how we can anonymize the stories.
- Questions: Did you get relocation assistance?, etc. Women archivists survey had some of these questions. Should we reach out to them?

=== Resources ===
* http://letterstoayounglibrarian.blogspot.com/
* http://inalj.com/
* https://eatingouryoung.wordpress.com/

=== Logistics and Resources ===

* Twitter and Slack channels
* Labor Working Group session at 2017 DLF Forum (October 23-25)
* Lunchtime WG session proposed and will be disseminated when scheduled
* Valuing Labor subgroup proposing a presentation: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1gOJ9R-Xhmj5EKCOoltB3WfCbd0TGXqnLxHmYlPl6OGI/edit
* Zotero group: https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items
* DLF working group wiki: https://wiki.diglib.org/Labor
* Collaboration tools or strategies?
* Slack or Google Group? Ruth can set up a Slack for the whole group, 2 starting channels for both groups.
* Breaking down working on particular tasks, but this project might not lend itself so well with that. Start with pulling the resources together first.
* Ruth: Schedule a follow-up meeting at the end of June.
* All: Pull together resources prior to our next meeting. Summarize and analyze resources.

Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes

2017-05-24T19:09:56Z

Ruthtillman: A page to link the minutes for the group

[[Labor/2017-05-24 | Minutes from the Contingency-Precarity meeting on 2017-05-24]]

Labor/Contingency-Precarity

2017-05-24T19:09:00Z

Ruthtillman: Creating a subpage for the subgroup

A subpage for the Contingency & Precarity subgroup

[[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Contingency-Precarity Minutes]]

Labor

2017-04-17T14:09:12Z

Ruthtillman: Adding Zotero link

This is a page for a newly-forming DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries]. Look for more info on this group's meetings and activities soon!

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==

Read [https://www.diglib.org/archives/13524/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

TO JOIN: please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].

As of April, 2017, this group is forming two smaller working groups with two facilitators each, based on themes pulled from member introductions and responses to the initial interest survey (now closed). Join a sub-group by filling out [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOHRLXfTLn2B-quqLbrVLS_JHsnsHAGrX_867BYthEKr9cSw/viewform this form].

Both subgroups are collecting citations and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group].

=== Contingency and Precarity ===
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez

Potential topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

=== Valuing Labor ===
Facilitators: Melissa Chalmers, Amy Wickner

Potential topics: Student labor, student loans, (in)visibility, service, emotional labor, maintenance, labor ethics, apprenticeships, internships, pre-professional training, acculturation, “fit,” hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities, professionalization, credential creep / credentialism, labor and digital scholarship

Labor

2017-02-14T20:56:48Z

Ruthtillman: Creating a top-level placeholder for the Labor Working Group

This is currently a placeholder page for the upcoming DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries. Creating the page to be linked in the blog.

== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries ==

If you're interested in being involved, consider [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ signing up for the Google Group]. Or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScw2Z4TiUp04rM_nC0ds9j1f137fseb0y6hptjOilDPRbwGqA/viewform submit a form] to suggest focus areas or indicate your interest in other methods of participation.