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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].
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, Archives, and Museums ==
== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ==


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.  
* 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


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


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].
== Resources ==


Both subgroups are collecting citations and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group].
* 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 ===
=== Contingency and Precarity ===
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez
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
Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism


'''Goals 2018'''
==== Goals 2020 ====
* finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions
* 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.


'''Deliverables'''
==== 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


'''Goals 2017'''
==== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ====
* 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:'''
=== Valuing Labor ===
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity]
Facilitators: Stephanie Bennett, Leanne Finnigan, Ellen LeClere
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVt7JhlRZapZdk4jefOsi9gLxuj1OOEZXAznoeLeYrA/ First working draft of the guidelines (open comment)]
 
'''[[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
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


'''Goals 2018'''
==== Activities ====
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries
* 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)
'''Deliverables'''
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/150-mhgyn5-MKxIXhxthOy6E6EuZsKbAo2PZS1nqcOE8/edit?usp=sharing Draft research agenda] and [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IK-f3nZvF-ePxshs2SYg7MQRkQ-zLnlVoyWK2MP8pZ8/edit?usp=sharing supporting bibliography]
* Research projects (2020)
** Public comment period (in documents or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSemI3uDWxY36iTokF_YbQ8N41YiQcOlZ57FNNzXsxOj0UhcHg/viewform?usp=sf_link via this form]) June 19 - July 16, 2018
** 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)


'''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes page]]'''
==== 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

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