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Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources

This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums. Assembled and maintained by the DLF Labor Working Group.

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Each entry below includes at least some of the following elements:

Group/campaign name
Issues covered
Initiatives
Resources
Bibliography
Communication channels

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#PROTECTLIBRARYWORKERS

Issues: COVID-19, organizing

Initiatives:

Resources:

American Alliance of Museums

Issues: hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity

Resources:

Bibliography: For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries

Communication:

American Association of University Professors

Issues: temporary positions, unions

Initiatives:

Resources:

Bibliography: Reports & Publications

Communication:

American Historical Association

Issues: hiring, temporary position, unions

Resources:

Bibliography: Statement on Right to Engage in Collective Bargaining (2019)

Communication:

Archives & Records Association (UK)

Issues: salaries, volunteers

Initiatives: Pay Review 2018

Resources:

Volunteering in Collections Care Best Practices Guidelines & Research Report
ARA Pay Review Group Summary (August 2018)
ARA Pay Review Group Freelance Summary (August 2018)

Archival Workers Emergency Fund

Issues: COVID-19, funding, temporary positions

Initiatives: Become an #AWEfund Storyteller

Resources: Resources for Displaced Archival Workers

Communication: Twitter

Archive Staff Impact During COVID-19

Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives: Tracking spreadsheet

Archivist Salary Advocacy

Issues: salaries

Resources: Salary Spreadsheet

Communication: Google Group

Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York

Issues: hiring, internships, salaries

Bibliography: New Job Submission Policy

Communication:

ARLIS/NA Advocacy & Public Policy Committee

Issues: hiring, internships, salaries

Initiatives: News Alerts (see “Workplace” section)

Bibliography: Statement on Staff Reductions in Art Museum Libraries and Visual Resources Collections (December 2013)

Art + Museum Transparency

Issues: internships, salaries, unions

Resources:

Salary Spreadsheet (began 2019)
Internship Spreadsheet (began 2019)
Unions for All: Unionizing Museum and Arts Workers

Communication:

Association of Art Museum Directors

Issues: internships, salaries

Initiatives: Annual salary survey

Bibliography: Association of Art Museum Directors Passes Resolution Urging Art Museums to Provide Paid Internships (June 20, 2019)

Communication:

BIPOC Library Residents Mutual Aid

Issues: COVID-19, mutual aid, temporary positions

Initiatives:

Campaign for a Better MIT

Issues: benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions

Initiatives: Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers

Communication:

#abetterMIT
Facebook
Instagram
News
Twitter

Canadian Association of University Teachers / Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université (CAUT)

Issues: unions

Initiatives: Librarians' and Archivists' Committee

Bibliography:

Open Educational Resources discussion paper (March 2019)
Reframing Scholarly Communications discussion paper (April 2002)
Librarians' Workload discussion paper (November 2000)
Library Councils discussion paper (October 2007)
Governance and Librarians discussion paper (April 2000)
Expanding Role of Teaching by Librarians in Post-Secondary Institutions discussion paper (February 2009)
Aboriginal and Visible/Racial Minority Librarians discussion paper (March 2008)

Communication:

Coalition on the Academic Workforce

Issues: temporary positions

Resources: A Portrait of Part-Time Faculty Members: A Summary of Findings on Part-Time Faculty Respondents to the Coalition on the Academic Workforce Survey of Contingent Faculty Members and Instructors (2012)

Collections on Contract

Issues: temporary positions

Initiatives:

Communication:

Blog
Twitter

Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions

Issues: temporary positions

Initiatives:

advocacy toolkit
network for contingent workers
How to Talk About Collective Responsibility at Work

Resources:

Collective Responsibility Labor Toolkit
- Evaluating Project Design for Worker Equity
- Recommendations to Funders: Promoting Equitable Approaches to Project Staff Design

Bibliography:

Attendee posts
Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)

Communication:

Crowd Consortium

Issues: volunteers

Resources: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015)

DLF Labor Working Group

Issues: COVID-19, hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Resources:

Communication:

Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

Issues: COVID-19, organizing

Initiatives: Organize your Workplace against COVID-19 / Organice su lugar de trabajo contra el COVID-19

Resources: Orientation Guide

EveryLibrary Institute

Issues: COVID-19, funding

Initiatives: Help a Library Worker Out (HALO) Fund

Communication:

Fair Museum Jobs

Issues: COVID-19, hiring, internships, salaries, volunteers

Initiatives: Our Campaigns - a list of the organisations we’ve contacted, why contacted them, and how they responded

Resources: Resources

Bibliography:

Communication:

Front of House in Museums (FoHMuseums)

Issues: COVID-19, temporary positions, valuing labor

Initiatives:

Resources: Front of House in Museums Survey 2019

Bibliography:

Communication:

Gender Equity in Museums Movement

Issues: gender equity

Resources:

Bibliography:

Museums as a Pink-Collar Profession: The Consequences and How to Address Them (March 2019)
A Call for Gender Equity in the Museum Workplace (November 2016)

Communication:

Hiring Librarians

Issues: hiring, salaries

Initiatives:

Oh Hey, Share Your Salary Info Today! (August 19, 2019)
Hiring Librarians survey
Job hunter’s survey & follow-up interviews

Resources:

Salary Spreadsheet
Hiring Librarians' Library Interview Question "Database"
State of the Library Job Market (October 10, 2015)

Humanities Technology (UCLA)

Issues: internships, temporary positions

Resources: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015) || ||

Communication:

Blog

Information Maintainers

Initiatives: advocacy toolkit

Bibliography: Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019)

Communication: Google Group

Labor Notes

Issues: unions

Resources:

Communication:

Library Salaries Inequity

Issues: salaries

Resources: resource list

Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)

Issues: mentoring, mutual aid

Initiatives:

Communication:

Modern Language Association

Issues: hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Initiatives:

Bibliography:

MLA Statement on the Use of Part-Time and Full-Time Adjunct Faculty Members (February 1994)
Statement on Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Members (December 2003)

Communication:

Museum Detox

Issues: COVID-19, BIPOC/BAME network

Initiatives:

Museum Detox Survey
Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (application instructions)
Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (GoFundMe)

Resources: Coronavirus Covid-19: Information and guidance

Communication:

Museum Staff Impact During COVID-19

Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives: tracking spreadsheet

Museum Workers Speak

Issues: COVID-19, funding, mutual aid

Initiatives:

Museum Workers Relief Fund
2020 Museums & Race Imagine a [Radical Future virtual conference]

Resources: Resources

Bibliography: Statement (May 1, 2020)

Communication:

Music Library Association

Issues: COVID-19

Initiatives: MLA Emergency Relief Fund

Resources: MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics (2009)

Communication:

National Council on Public History

Issues: hiring

Resources: Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings (March 2019)

Communication:

National Emerging Museum Professionals Network

Issues: hiring, salaries

Initiatives:

Communication:

New England Archivists

Issues: temporary positions

Initiatives: New England Archivists Contingent Employment Study (January 2017)

Bibliography: NEA Statement on Contingent Employment (2018)

Communication:

Northwest Archivists

Issues: internships

Initiatives:

Resources:

Northwest Archivists (NWA): Policy for Acceptable Job Postings

Bibliography:

NWA Policy for Acceptable Job Postings

Communication

@OrganizingLIS

Issues: hiring, internships, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, unions

Communication: Twitter

Postdoctoral Laborers Group

Issues: temporary positions

Resources: Postdoctoral Bill of Rights (April 9, 2019)

Communication: Google Group

Precarity in Libraries

Issues: temporary positions

Resources:

Bibliography:

Catalog Cards from the Edge: Precarity in Libraries (May 2018)
Hidden Variables: Researching While Precarious (October 2018)
Let’s talk precarity (or not): Libraries, community, and conversation (June 2019)
Perceptions and Experiences of Precarious Employment in Canadian Libraries: An Exploratory Study (September 2019)

Communication: Twitter

Progressive Librarians Guild

Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions

Communication:

Society of American Archivists Accessibility & Disability Section

Issues: accessibility of work environment, disability equity, hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Resources:

Communication:

Society of American Archivists Committee on Public Awareness

Issues: salaries, signal boosting, student loan debt

Initiatives: Responses & Retrospectives series on ArchivesAWARE blog

Bibliography:

Communication:

Blog

Society of American Archivists Council

Issues: internships, volunteers

Initiatives:

Resources:

Best Practices for Internships as a Component of Graduate Archival Education (January 2014)
Practices for Volunteers in Archives (June 2014)

Bibliography: Only Paid Internships to Be Posted to the SAA Career Center (July 9, 2019)

Society of American Archivists Issues & Advocacy Section

Issues: salaries, temporary positions

Initiatives: Temporary Labor Survey

Resources: Advocacy Toolkit

Bibliography: Archivists on the Issues: Rare & Ephemeral: a snapshot of full-time New England archives jobs, 2018-2019

Communication:

Society of American Archivists Students and New Archives Professionals Section

Issues: internships, hiring

Initiatives:

Academic Internship Survey
#snaprt chats: Topics include barriers to entry into the archival profession; erasure of archival labor; labor issues in archives

Communication:

Society of American Archivists Women Archivists Section

Issues: gender equity, salaries

Resources: The 2017 WArS/SAA Salary Survey: Initial Results and Analysis

Society of California Archivists

Issues: hiring, internships, salaries, temporary positions, unions

Initiatives: Task Force on Labor Issues within the Profession (2019-2021)

Bibliography: Statement in Support of Temporary Archivists at UCLA

Communication:

Society of Southwest Archivists

Issues: salaries

Resources: Archives Regional Salary Research

Bibliography:

Archival Pay and SAA: Some Modest Proposals (April 29, 2019)
Salary Information Now Required in Job Postings (March 11, 2019)
Poor Pay in Archives: How Our National Organizations are Failing Us (March 5, 2019)

Communication:

Tech Workers Coalition

Issues: unions

Resources:

Learning Club
Local chapters (Austin, Berlin, Boston, DC, LA, London, NYC, PDX, San Diego, Seattle, SF Bay Area, South Florida)

Communication:

UC-AFT Unit 17 (UC Librarians)

Issues: unions

Initiatives: Precarity, academic freedom, professional development, working conditions, housing, and the next contract

Resources:

Our website (and blog) chronicles our campaign and organizing with tools for engagement around our contract
Bargaining Timeline
Glossary of Common Terms

Communication:

Blog
Facebook
Media coverage
Twitter (@UCLibrarians)
Twitter @UCAFT]

UCLA Six (Temporary Librarians)

Issues: temporary positions

Initiatives: Open Letter (June 2018)

Bibliography:

UCLA Library’s reliance on temporary workers is inefficient, unethical (July 29, 2018)
SAA Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six (August 2019)

Communication: TinyLetter

United Academics of the University of Oregon

Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions

Resources:

Bibliography:

We Need Our Librarians! (May 15, 2020)
United Academics Statement on Use of Blackface (November 4, 2016)

Communication:

University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA)

Issues: benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions

Resources:

Communication:

Blog
Twitter

We Here

Issues: BIPOC/BAME network

Initiatives: Community School

Resources:

Bibliography: up//root

Communication:

Workers for Workers

Issues: organizing, temporary positions

Initiatives:

Resources:

Communication:

You Ought to Be Ashamed

Issues: hiring, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, volunteers

Initiatives: job posting reviews

Communication: blog

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 * [https://twitter.com/ELInstituteNFP Twitter]
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 * [https://fairmuseumjobs.wordpress.com/2020/03/17/a-joint-statement-on-the-coronavirus-pandemic/ A Joint Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic]
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 * [https://fairmuseumjobs.wordpress.com/join-us/ Contact Form]
 * [https://twitter.com/Fair_Jobs Twitter]
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 * [https://fohmuseums.wordpress.com/2020/05/01/reopening-the-museum/ Reopening the Museum]
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 * #FoHMuseums
 * [https://fohmuseums.wordpress.com/contact/ Contact Form]
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 * [https://www.marac.info/mentoring-program Mentoring Program]
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 * [https://themaracblog.wordpress.com/ Blog]
 * [https://www.facebook.com/groups/7834911567/ Facebook]
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 * [https://mla.hcommons.org/ MLA Commons]
 * [https://twitter.com/MLAnews Twitter]
+=== [https://www.museumdetox.org/ Museum Detox] ===
+'''Issues:''' COVID-19, BIPOC/BAME network
+'''Initiatives:'''
+* [https://www.museumdetox.org/post/coronavirus-covid-19-information-and-guidance-1 Museum Detox Survey]
+* [https://www.museumdetox.org/post/museum-detox-coronavirus-emergency-fund Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund] (application instructions)
+* [https://www.gofundme.com/f/museum-detox-coronavirus-emergency-fund Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund] (GoFundMe)
+'''Resources:''' [https://www.museumdetox.org/post/coronavirus-covid-19-information-and-guidance Coronavirus Covid-19: Information and guidance]
+'''Communication:'''
+* [https://www.museumdetox.org/blog Blog]
+* [https://www.instagram.com/museum_detox/ Instagram]
+* [http://www.twitter.com/museumdetox Twitter]
+* [https://vimeo.com/user99100050 Vimeo]
 === Museum Staff Impact During COVID-19 ===
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 '''Bibliography:''' [https://sites.google.com/view/museumworkersspeak/statement Statement] (May 1, 2020)
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 * [https://sites.google.com/view/museumworkersspeak/contact-us Email]
 * [https://twitter.com/MuseumWorkers Twitter]
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 '''Resources:''' [https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/page/SurveyReport MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics] (2009)
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 * [http://blog.musiclibraryassoc.org/ Blog]
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 * [https://www.southwestarchivists.org/poor-pay-in-archives-how-our-national-organizations-are-failing-us/ Poor Pay in Archives: How Our National Organizations are Failing Us] (March 5, 2019)
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 * [https://www.facebook.com/southwestarchivists/ Facebook]
 * [https://www.southwestarchivists.org/home/forum-directory/ Forums]
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 * Local chapters ([https://techworkerscoalition.org/austin Austin], [https://techworkersberlin.com/ Berlin], [https://boston.techworkerscoalition.org/ Boston], [https://techworkerscoalition.org/dc DC], [https://www.meetup.com/Tech-Workers-Coalition-LA/ LA], [https://techworkerscoalition.org/london London], [https://techworkerscoalition.org/nyc NYC], [https://techworkerscoalition.org/pdx PDX], [https://www.meetup.com/TWCSanDiego San Diego], [https://techworkerscoalition.org/seattle Seattle], [https://techworkerscoalition.org/sf-bay-area SF Bay Area], [https://techworkerscoalition.org/south-florida South Florida])
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 * [https://www.facebook.com/TechWorkersCoalition Facebook]
 * [https://medium.com/tech-workers-coalition Medium]
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 * [http://uauoregon.org/blog/2016/11/04/united-academics-statement-on-use-of-blackface/ United Academics Statement on Use of Blackface] (November 4, 2016)
-'''Communications:'''
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 * [https://www.facebook.com/uauoregon.org Facebook]
 * [http://newsletter.uauoregon.org/ The Duck & Cover] (newsletter)
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 * [https://www.uwofa.ca/news/news Blog]
 * [https://twitter.com/UWOFA Twitter]
+=== [https://www.wehere.space/ We Here] ===
+'''Issues:''' BIPOC/BAME network
+'''Initiatives:''' [https://www.wehere.space/school Community School]
+'''Resources:'''
+* [https://www.wehere.space/join-us Join closed groups]
+* [https://www.wehere.space/submit-a-job Submit a Job]
+'''Bibliography:''' [https://medium.com/uproot up//root]
+'''Communication:'''
+* [https://www.wehere.space/news Blog]
+* [https://www.instagram.com/librarieswehere/ Instagram]
+* [https://twitter.com/librarieswehere Twitter]
 === [https://www.workersforworkers.org/ Workers for Workers] ===