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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	News Alerts (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
Campaign for a Better MIT	benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions	Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers			• #abetterMIT • Facebook • Instagram • News • 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)
Collections on Contract	temporary positions	• Survey • Accepting submissions: personal narratives, resource reviews, advice/questions			• Blog • Twitter
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)
Humanities Technology (UCLA)	internships, temporary positions		A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015)		• Blog
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, salaries	• NWA Archivist-in-Residence • Survey: The Value of Archivists in the Northwest	• Northwest Archivists (NWA): Policy for Acceptable Job Postings	• NWA Policy for Acceptable Job Postings	• 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	• 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)	Twitter
Progressive Librarians Guild	salaries, temporary positions, unions				• Union Library Workers • discussion list
Society of American Archivists Committee on Public Awareness	salaries, signal boosting, student loan debt	Responses & Retrospectives series on ArchivesAWARE blog		• Responses and Retrospectives: Rachael Woody on the Decline of History Majors and Its Impact on Archives (December 2018) • Responses & Retrospectives: Rachael Woody’s Annual Conference Coverage on the Value of Archival Labor Sessions (September 2019) • Responses & Retrospectives: “maybe she just has to sing for the sake of the song” Rosemary K.J. Davis on Student Loan Debt and Its Impact on the Archival Profession (November 2019)	Blog
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
UC-AFT Unit 17 (UC Librarians)	unions	Precarity, academic freedom, professional development, working conditions, housing, and the next contract	• Our website (and blog) chronicles our campaign and organizing with tools for engagement around our contract • Bargaining Timeline • Glossary of Common Terms		• Blog • Facebook • Media coverage • Twitter (@UCLibrarians) • Twitter @UCAFT]
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
University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA)	benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions		• Renewing a Term-Limited Contract • Employment Equity Guide • CAUT handbook for new faculty - Negotiating starting salaries • Negotiating a probationary position		• Blog • Twitter
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