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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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American Alliance of Museums

Issues: hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity

Resources:

• Salary Negotiation
• National Museum Salary Survey
• Equitable Hiring Practices
• Resources for the Museum Industry to Discuss the Issue of Unpaid Internships

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

Communication:

• Facebook
• Linkedin
• Twitter

American Association of University Professors

Issues: temporary positions, unions

Initiatives:

• One Faculty
• AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress

Resources:

• Resources on Contingent Positions
• Resources on Collective Bargaining

Bibliography: Reports & Publications

Communication:

• AAUP Updates
• Facebook
• Twitter

American Historical Association

Issues: hiring, temporary position, unions

Resources:

• Guidelines for First-Round Interviews (2019)
• Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Faculty (2011)

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

Communication:

• Facebook
• Twitter

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)

Archivist Salary Advocacy

Issues: salaries

Resources: Salary Spreadsheet

Communication: Google Group

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

Resources:

• Salary Spreadsheet (began 2019)
• Internship Spreadsheet (began 2019)

Communication:

• Medium
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Twitter

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)

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
• guidelines for grantmaking

Bibliography:

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

Communication:

• #IMLSLaborForum
• #CollectiveResponsibility

Crowd Consortium

Issues: volunteers

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

DLF Labor Working Group

Issues: hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Resources:

• “Do Better” -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums
• Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries (August 2018)
• Zotero

Communication:

• Google Group
• #DLFLabor

Gender Equity in Museums Movement

Issues: gender equity

Resources:

• 5 Things You Can Do to Support Gender Equity at Work
• 5 Things Your Museum Can Do to Support Gender Equity
• How You Can Help
• Gender Equity in Museum Leadership
• Pay Gap
• Demographics and Diversity
• Employment and Labor Law
• Future of Museum Leadership and Succession Planning

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:

• #GEMMuseum
• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter

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)

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:

• Troublemakers School
• Biennial Conference
• Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso

Communication:

• Blog
• Facebook
• Magazine Archives
• Twitter

Library Salaries Inequity

Issues: salaries

Resources: resource list

Modern Language Association

Issues: hiring, salaries, temporary positions

Initiatives:

• Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
• Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession

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:

• Facebook
• Mailing list
• MLA Commons
• Twitter

National Council on Public History

Issues: hiring

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

Communication:

• Facebook
• Twitter

National Emerging Museum Professionals Network

Issues: hiring, salaries

Initiatives:

• Range on Museum Job Postings Letter Writing Campaign
• Help Make Museums More Equitable

Communication:

• Blog
• Journal
• Facebook

New England Archivists

Issues: temporary positions

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

Bibliography: NEA Statement on Contingent Employment (2018)

Communication:

• Facebook
• Need Help with an Advocacy Issue?
• Twitter

Northwest Archivists

Issues: internships

Initiatives: NWA Archivist-in-Residence

Communication

• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter

@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:

• Data set: Partnership Job Board job postings
• Literature Review & Bibliography

Bibliography:

• Let’s talk precarity (or not): Libraries, community, and conversation
• Hidden Variables: Researching While Precarious
• Catalog Cards from the Edge: Precarity in Libraries

Communication: Twitter

Progressive Librarians Guild

Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions

Communication:

• Union Library Workers
• discussion list

Society of American Archivists Council

Issues: internships, volunteers

Initiatives:

• SAA Update: Advocating For Archivist Pay
• Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six

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:

• Blog
• Report an advocacy issue

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:

• Ask an Archivist
• Blog
• Facebook
• Twitter

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:

• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Twitter
• Western Archivists Listerv

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)

Communications:

• Facebook
• Forums
• News Blog
• Twitter

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)

Communications:

• Facebook
• Medium
• Newsletter
• Slack
• Twitter

Humanities Technology (UCLA)

Issues: internships, temporary positions

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

Communication:

• Blog

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

Workers for Workers

Issues: temporary positions, unions

Initiatives:

• #workersforworkers Survey
• Solidarity Fund for Fired FB Contingent Workers

Resources:

• Stories
• Retaliation

Communication:

• #workersforworkers
• Twitter

You Ought to Be Ashamed

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

Initiatives: job posting reviews

Communication: blog