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

Meeting minutes: February 21, 2018

Note-taker: Amy Wickner. Participant names redacted.

== News & Resources ==
=== Libraries in the Context of Capitalism ===
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/libraries-in-the-context-of-capitalism-tickets-41386229326#
* [https://barbarafister.net/libraries/why-we-can-have-nice-things/ This is Why We CAN Have Nice Things: The radical promise of libraries] - Barbara Fister
* [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1jxOysvA7dITgDmR29leWcvbx0i0FNxbt8Us4RuHArsk/edit#slide=id.p Rethinking Value in Academic Libraries] - Roxanne Shirazi
* [http://www.emilydrabinski.com/libraries-in-the-context-of-capitalism-talk/ Organizing for Opposition: How to Build Power to Contest Power] - Emily Drabinski
** Describes how she got involved in a labor organization during walkout at LIU
** What is actually involved on the day to day of organizing, e.g. details like organizing spreadsheets
** Ebb & flow of interest: hard to keep people engaged once they have a conctract
** People’s interests tend to correlate to how much of a crisis there is
* Friction in the (Unpaid Internship) Machine: An Organizing Brainstorm, presented by Jeanne Swadosh, dues-paying member of the Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York (ART)
** Jeanne has shared research; may add to DLF Labor WG Zotero
** Should internships circulate on professional organizations’ listservs? How about school lists?
** Not a lot of oversight about what opportunities get sent to students.
** Unpaid internships exist on a ladder of precarity, related to contract & term work, e.g. 2-3-year positions
** Recommendations for ART as to how internships should be posted on job board

=== Code4Lib 2018 ===
http://2018.code4lib.org/
* Fail4Lib: http://2018.code4lib.org/workshops/fail4lib-2018
** Slides & readings: https://osf.io/4wu8c/
** half-day pre-conference workshop at the Code4Lib annual conference discussing, dissecting, being open about failure as counterpoint to perpetual pressure to celebrate success in library work
** labor is labor, whether outcomes are success or failure
** talking about failure as a different way to value labor
* [https://wiki.code4lib.org/Main_Page Code4Lib] community, meetups, annual conference, journal could be good venues for talking about labor in/and digital libraries
** heterogeneous work & workers all related to digital libraries

=== Considering Labor Models in Archives Work ===
https://issuesandadvocacy.wordpress.com/2018/02/07/steering-share-considering-labor-models-in-archives-work/
* SAA Issues & Advocacy Section steering committee
* Research project (likely survey) on experiences of temporary workers in archives
* Will reach out to committee about whether/how we (DLF Labor WG) can support

== Upcoming Events ==
NYC, February 25, 2018 – ARLIS/NA conference workshop on [http://sched.co/CqOL Advocating for Ourselves: Negotiation Skills and Closing the Gender Pay Gap]

Los Angeles, April 27, 2018 – [http://www.laacollective.org/archives-now-2018 Los Angeles Archivists Collective ArchivesNOW]
* How can we denormalize unpaid internships while recognizing that there's a lot of people invested in maintaining the system?
* Little data available about how common they are, mostly under the radar
* How labor is valued at the start of your career stays with you as you advance
* What tactics are available to us?

Boston, July 20, 2018 – [http://litwinbooks.com/2018colloquium.php Gender & Sexuality in Information Studies Colloquium on WORK]

== Project Ideas ==
Develop a research agenda on valuing labor in digital libraries, akin to ACRL WGSS: http://acrl.ala.org/wgss/resources/resagendafeminism/
* What kinds of ongoing research would we like to see?
** [https://docs.google.com/document/d/11YofwMVsTs_DeD_MLXmHoYMIe1grb8_3BVLFk0K5-D8/edit Summary of 2017 conversations, research questions, potential projects]
** Major questions / potential starting points:
*** Are digital workers in libraries/archives organized?
*** How about grad students?
*** What guidelines already exist for valuing labor in digital libraries?
* Matching people with comparable or compatible research interests, experience, methods expertise (see e.g. #critlib research interests spreadsheet)
* Find flexible ways for group members to contribute as available
* Compile resources in Zotero

== Next Steps ==
Next meeting March 21

Wiki clean-up https://wiki.diglib.org/Labor

Orientation/catch up on working group activities to date

Draft research agenda document

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