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