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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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Group/Campaign	Issues Covered	Initiatives	Resources	Bibliography	Communication Channels
American Alliance of Museums	hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity		Salary Negotiation National Museum Salary Survey Equitable Hiring Practices Resources for the Museum Industry to Discuss the Issue of Unpaid Internships	For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries	Facebook Linkedin Twitter
American Association of University Professors	temporary positions, unions	One Faculty AAUP Collective Bargaining Congress	Resources on Contingent Positions Resources on Collective Bargaining	Reports & Publications	AAUP Updates Facebook Twitter
American Historical Association	hiring, temporary position, unions		Guidelines for First-Round Interviews (2019) Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Faculty (2011)	Statement on Right to Engage in Collective Bargaining (2019)	Facebook Twitter
Archives & Records Association (UK)	salaries, volunteers	Pay Review 2018	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	salaries		Salary Spreadsheet		Google Group
ARLIS/NA Advocacy & Public Policy Committee	hiring, internships, salaries	[1] (see “Workplace” section)		Statement on Staff Reductions in Art Museum Libraries and Visual Resources Collections (December 2013)
Art + Museum Transparency	internships, salaries, unions		Salary Spreadsheet (began 2019) Internship Spreadsheet (began 2019) Unions for All: Unionizing Museum and Arts Workers		Medium Twitter
Association of Art Museum Directors	internships, salaries	Annual salary survey		Association of Art Museum Directors Passes Resolution Urging Art Museums to Provide Paid Internships (June 20, 2019)	Facebook Twitter
Coalition on the Academic Workforce	temporary positions		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	temporary positions	advocacy toolkit network for contingent workers How to Talk About Collective Responsibility at Work guidelines for grantmaking		Attendee posts Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)	#IMLSLaborForum #CollectiveResponsibility
Crowd Consortium	volunteers		Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015)
DLF Labor Working Group	hiring, salaries, temporary positions		“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	Google Group #DLFLabor
Gender Equity in Museums Movement	gender equity		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	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)	#GEMMuseum Blog Facebook Twitter
Hiring Librarians	hiring, salaries	Oh Hey, Share Your Salary Info Today! (August 19, 2019) Hiring Librarians survey Job hunter’s survey & follow-up interviews	Salary Spreadsheet Hiring Librarians' Library Interview Question "Database" State of the Library Job Market (October 10, 2015)
Information Maintainers		advocacy toolkit		Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019)	Google Group
Labor Notes	unions		Troublemakers School Biennial Conference Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso		Blog Facebook Magazine Archives Twitter
Library Salaries Inequity	salaries		resource list
Modern Language Association	hiring, salaries, temporary positions	Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession		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)	Facebook Mailing list MLA Commons Twitter
National Council on Public History	hiring		Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings (March 2019)		Facebook Twitter
National Emerging Museum Professionals Network	hiring, salaries	Range on Museum Job Postings Letter Writing Campaign Help Make Museums More Equitable			Blog Journal Facebook
New England Archivists	temporary positions	New England Archivists Contingent Employment Study (January 2017)		NEA Statement on Contingent Employment (2018)	Facebook Need Help with an Advocacy Issue? Twitter
Northwest Archivists	internships	NWA Archivist-in-Residence			Blog Facebook Twitter
@OrganizingLIS	hiring, internships, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, unions				Twitter
Postdoctoral Laborers Group	temporary positions		Postdoctoral Bill of Rights (April 9, 2019)		Google Group
Precarity in Libraries	temporary positions		Data set: Partnership Job Board job postings Literature Review & Bibliography	Let’s talk precarity (or not): Libraries, community, and conversation Hidden Variables: Researching While Precarious Catalog Cards from the Edge: Precarity in Libraries	Twitter
Progressive Librarians Guild	salaries, temporary positions, unions				Union Library Workers discussion list
Society of American Archivists Council	internships, volunteers	SAA Update: Advocating For Archivist Pay Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six	Best Practices for Internships as a Component of Graduate Archival Education (January 2014) Practices for Volunteers in Archives (June 2014)	Only Paid Internships to Be Posted to the SAA Career Center (July 9, 2019)
Society of American Archivists Issues & Advocacy Section	salaries, temporary positions	Temporary Labor Survey	Advocacy Toolkit	Archivists on the Issues: Rare & Ephemeral: a snapshot of full-time New England archives jobs, 2018-2019	Blog Report an advocacy issue
Society of American Archivists Students and New Archives Professionals Section	internships, hiring	Academic Internship Survey #snaprt chats: Topics include barriers to entry into the archival profession; erasure of archival labor; labor issues in archives			Ask an Archivist Blog Facebook Twitter
Society of American Archivists Women Archivists Section	gender equity, salaries		The 2017 WArS/SAA Salary Survey: Initial Results and Analysis
Society of California Archivists	hiring, internships, salaries, temporary positions, unions	Task Force on Labor Issues within the Profession (2019-2021)		Statement in Support of Temporary Archivists at UCLA	Facebook Instagram LinkedIn Twitter Western Archivists Listerv
Society of Southwest Archivists	salaries		Archives Regional Salary Research	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)	Facebook Forums News Blog Twitter
Tech Workers Coalition	unions		Learning Club Local chapters (Austin, Berlin, Boston, DC, LA, London, NYC, PDX, San Diego, Seattle, SF Bay Area, South Florida)		Facebook Medium Newsletter Slack Twitter
Humanities Technology (UCLA)	internships, temporary positions		A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015)		Blog
UCLA Six (Temporary Librarians)	temporary positions	Open Letter (June 2018)		UCLA Library’s reliance on temporary workers is inefficient, unethical (July 29, 2018) SAA Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six (August 2019)	TinyLetter
Workers for Workers	temporary positions, unions	#workersforworkers Survey Solidarity Fund for Fired FB Contingent Workers		Stories Retaliation	#workersforworkers Twitter
You Ought to Be Ashamed	hiring, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, volunteers	job posting reviews			blog