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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.
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.  


== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries ==
== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ==


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.
* 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]]'''

Latest revision as of 11:25, 10 February 2021

This is a page for the DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries. Read 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.
  • Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in 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

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

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

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