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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
#PROTECTLIBRARYWORKERS	COVID-19, organizing	• #closethelibraries • #ProtectLibraryWorkers & communities: Don't reopen libraries until it's safe • Tracking Library Layoffs • Weekly Course of Action	• Safe Reopening Resources • Tips for Productive Advocacy • Templates for Letters, Recommendations, Petitions • Mutual Aid & Other Resources		• #LIBREV • Twitter • Vimeo
AFSCME	unions	Cultural Workers United	• COVID-19 resources • FAQ	• Why Organize? • Weekly legislative reports	• Blog • Facebook (AFSCME) • Facebook (AFSCME) • Instagram • Twitter (CWU) • YouTube
AFT Academics	COVID-19, organizing, unions	• Solidarity Academy • Organizer Trainings	• Organizing Toolkit • Know Your Rights • International Worker Rights • Supporting Students During COVID-19 • International Students & Workers FAQ • Online Teaching Toolkit (Association of College and University Educators)	• National COVID-19 Response Statement • Adjunct Faculty Survey Report • Principles for Higher Education Response to COVID-19 • Uprising Solidarity Statement	• Facebook • Twitter
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 • [Mutual Aid in a Time of Crisis https://www.aam-us.org/2020/08/12/mutual-aid-in-a-time-of-crisis/] (August 2020)	• 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
American Library Association Allied Professional Association (ALA-APA)	advancement, salaries, unions	• ALA-APA Wellness • Certified Public Library Administrator Program • Library Support Staff Certification Program • National Library Workers Day • Standing Committee on the Salaries and Status of Library Workers	• Salary surveys • Occupation fact sheets • Occupation resources • Pay Equity • Salary Negotiation • Start a Union	• Advocating for Better Salaries Toolkit (6th edition, April 2017) • Library Worklife newsletter • Pay Equity Bibliography (August 2013) • State Libraries Collecting and Reporting Salary Data (August 2016) • Workplace wellness reports	• Facebook (ALA-APA) • Facebook (National Library Workers Day) • Facebook (Library Support Staff Certification Program) • Twitter
Archival Workers Emergency Fund	COVID-19, funding, temporary positions	• Become an #AWEfund Storyteller • COVID-19 Impact on Archival Workers Survey	Resources for Displaced Archival Workers	Open Letter to the Archival Community re: Police Brutality	Twitter
Archive Staff Impact During COVID-19	COVID-19	spreadsheet
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
Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York	hiring, internships, salaries		COVID-19 Resources	New Job Submission Policy	• Facebook • Instagram • LinkedIn • Medium • Twitter
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
Asian Pacific American Labor Alliance (APALA), AFL-CIO	BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, funding, unions	• #AAPI2020 • AAPIs Are #EssentialNotExpendable • IAPALA's COVID-19 Community Fund • Count Us In. Take the 2020 Census.	• Chapters • Emerging Leaders Training (ELT) • In response to COVID-19 • Organizing & Leadership Development • Protest Tips + Organizing for Black Lives • Worker Resources in response to COVID-19	• Untapped Power: The Strength of Asian American, Native Hawaiian, & Pacific Islander Working People (2019) • Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders Behind Bars: Exposing the School to Prison to Deportation Pipeline (December 2015) • Breaking Ground, Breaking Silence: Report from the First National Asian Pacific American Workers' Rights Hearing (2009)	• Contact form • Facebook • Instagram • Twitter • YouTube • Twitter
Australian Library and Information Association	mentoring, salaries, temporary positions, volunteers	• Advocacy campaigns • Certified Professionals	• ALIA LIS Education, Skills and Employment Trend Report • ALIA LIS pay and employment snapshot 2020 - includes supplements on public, school, special, technical and further education (TAFE), and university libraries • ALIA Research Agenda • ALIA Students and New Graduates • Career and Professional Development Advisory Service • Library Technicians • Salary Scales and Work Level Guidelines (members only)	• ALIA supplementary statement about casual work in the library and information sector in Australia (September 2020) • Peak body for libraries opposes changes to university fees for LIS courses (June 2020) • ALIA urges lower university fees for Teacher Librarians (June 2020) • Professional development for library and information professionals (2019) • Statement on non-standard employment (2008, 2018) • Statement on library and information services staff appointments (2008, 2018) • Senior library and information services appointments (2008, 2017) • Statement on voluntary work in library and information services (2017) Foundation Knowledge, Skills and Attributes relevant to Information Professionals working in Archives, Libraries and Records Management (amended 2015) • The Library and Information Sector: Core Knowledge, Skills and Attributes (amended 2014) • The Role of Volunteers in a Contemporary Professional Association (September 2010) • Library Technician Education in Australia: State of the Nation Report (April 2010)	• ALIA Groups • Elists • Facebook • Instagram • Twitter
BIPOC Library Residents Mutual Aid	COVID-19, mutual aid, BIPOC/BAME network, temporary positions	• BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Need Survey • Matchmaking for BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Needs During COVID-19 (form) • Matchmaking for BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Needs During COVID-19 (spreadsheet)		COVID Residents Open Letter
Campaign for a Better MIT	benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions	Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers			• #abetterMIT • Facebook • Instagram • News • Twitter
Canadian Association of University Teachers / Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université (CAUT)	COVID-19, unions	Librarians' and Archivists' Committee	• CAUT Guidelines for Re-opening Canada’s Universities and Colleges (May 2020) • COVID-19 and the Academic Workplace: Questions & Answers	• 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)	• Facebook • LinkedIn • RSS • 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	• Collective Responsibility Labor Toolkit ••• Evaluating Project Design for Worker Equity ••• Recommendations to Funders: Promoting Equitable Approaches to Project Staff Design	• Attendee posts • Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)	• #IMLSLaborForum • #CollectiveResponsibility
Creating National Library Worker Union	organizing, unions	Petition
CUNY Adjunct Project	organizing, temporary positions	• Current Initiatives • Full and Fair Funding • $7k for Adjuncts • Toward a Just Contract • Tuition payments/permanent tuition remission for GC doctoral students	Teaching Resources	Toward a Just Contract, Vol. 1 (June 2017)	• Blog • Email • Facebook • Listserv • Twitter
Crowd Consortium	volunteers		Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015)
Death to Museums	COVID-19	Dialogue series			• Facebook • Instagram • Twitter YouTube
DLF Labor Working Group	COVID-19, 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 • COVID-19 bibliography	• Google Group • #DLFLabor
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee	COVID-19, organizing	Organize your Workplace against COVID-19 / Organice su lugar de trabajo contra el COVID-19	Orientation Guide
EveryLibrary Institute	COVID-19, funding	Help a Library Worker Out (HALO) Fund			• Contact • Twitter
Fair Museum Jobs	COVID-19, hiring, internships, salaries, volunteers	Our Campaigns - a list of the organisations we’ve contacted, why contacted them, and how they responded	Resources	• Fair Museum Jobs: A Manifesto for Job Adverts and Recruitment • The Manifesto Explained: Undergraduate Degrees • The Manifesto Explained: Postgraduate Qualifications • The Manifesto Explained: Non-disclosure of Salaries • The Manifesto Explained: Internships and Volunteering • The Manifesto Explained: Voluntary Roles, Placements and Unpaid Labour • The Manifesto Explained: Why ‘Desirable’ is not good enough • A Joint Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic	• Contact Form • Twitter
Front of House in Museums (FoHMuseums)	COVID-19, inclusion, temporary positions	• Campaigning • Advocacy • Celebrating	Front of House in Museums Survey 2019	• What's in a Coffee? • A Joint Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic • Reopening the Museum	• #FoHMuseums • Contact Form • Facebook • Instagram • Twitter
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
IAM MAM	organizing, unions	Union drive at the Milwaukee Art Museum			• Email • Facebook • IAM Organizer • Instagram • Twitter
Information Maintainers		advocacy toolkit		Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019)	Google Group
Institute of Museums Against All Fucked Up Social Systems Warning: animated interface	COVID-19	• Anti-Museum Reading Group • I'm at a Museum During a Pandemic! Worksheet & Form • NYC Museum Re-Opening Spreadsheet			• Email • Instagram
Kenyon Student Worker Organizing Committee	organizing, unions	Wall-to-wall union drive			• Facebook • Instagram • Twitter
Labor Notes	COVID-19, organizing, unions		• Troublemakers School • Biennial Conference • Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso • Organizing in a Pandemic: Labor Notes Resources	• What Are My Rights to Paid Leave and Unemployment During the Pandemic? (April 2020) • Concessions and How to Beat Them by Jane Slaughter (1983)	• Blog • Facebook • Magazine Archives • Twitter
LACUNY	COVID-19, mutual aid	LACUNY Mutual Aid Network		• LACUNY Statement on COVID-19 • Letter of Support and Solidarity
Libraries for All STL	COVID-19	We Need Libraries For All: Demand Black Lives Matter at St Louis County Libraries		• We Demand Transparency, Justice, and Jobs Back (August 2020) • Library eliminating part-timers, but not management (August 2020) • Kristen Sorth is Harming Our Community — American Libraries Association Must Rescind Leadership Award (September 2020)	• Facebook • Medium • Twitter
Library Salaries Inequity	salaries		resource list
MFA Boston Mutual Aid Fund Steering Committee	COVID-19, mutual aid, organizing	MFA Boston Staff Mutual Aid Fund	How to start a museum mutual aid fund	Open Source Solidarity: Starting a Mutual Aid Fund at Your Museum	Email
Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC)	mentoring, mutual aid	• MARAC Mutual Aid Network • Mentoring Program			• Blog • Facebook • MARAC Steering Committee Proposal Form • Twitter
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
Movement for Black Lives	BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, temporary positions, unions	• Project 2024 • Economic Justice policy platform • National Demands for COVID-19 • Week of Action • Virtual Events • Petition	• Policy Platforms • Mutual Aid Resources • Resources on Safety and Infiltration (.zip folder)		• Facebook • Instagram • Twitter • YouTube
Museum Detox	COVID-19, BIPOC/BAME network	• Museum Detox Survey • Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (application instructions) • Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (GoFundMe)	Coronavirus Covid-19: Information and guidance		• Blog • Instagram • Twitter • Vimeo
Museum Staff Impact During COVID-19	COVID-19	spreadsheet
Museum Workers Speak	COVID-19, funding, mutual aid	• Museum Workers Relief Fund • Museum Workers Relief Fund (Bonfire shop) • 2020 Museums & Race Imagine a [Radical Future virtual conference]	Resources	Statement (May 1, 2020)	• Email • Twitter • Facebook
Music Library Association	COVID-19	MLA Emergency Relief Fund	MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics (2009)		• Blog • Facebook • Listserv • Twitter • Vimeo
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
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Workers	unions				Twitter
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) • Factors Associated with the Prevalence of Precarious Positions in Canadian Libraries: Statistical Analysis of a National Job Board (September 2020)	Twitter
Progressive Librarians Guild	salaries, temporary positions, unions				• Union Library Workers • discussion list
Rutgers AAUP-AFT	COVID-19, unions	• Rutgers One • How We're Confronting the Crisis • Here's What We're Fighting For • Defend Lincoln Annex • A People-Centered Approach to COVID Crisis • Work Sharing Proposal – May 2020 • Libraries Solidarity • Salary Equity Program	• Union Fireside Chats • Here Are the Facts About the Fiscal Emergency • CARES Act Commission	• Statement: Justice for George Floyd • Statements and Resolutions • Questions and Answers about the “Fiscal Emergency” • Special Alerts	• Facebook • Instagram • Twitter
Society of American Archivists Accessibility & Disability Section	accessibility of work environment, disability equity, hiring, salaries, temporary positions		• Archivists at Home • Inclusive interviewing and recruitment practices for people with disabilities • Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities		• Email • Twitter
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
United Academics of the University of Oregon	salaries, temporary positions, unions		• Information for Librarians • UA Bargaining 101 • We Are Building Our Union	• We Need Our Librarians! (May 15, 2020) • United Academics Statement on Use of Blackface (November 4, 2016)	• Facebook • The Duck & Cover (newsletter) • Twitter
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
We Here	BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, mutual aid	• Community School • COVID-19 Relief Grants for We Here's Black Members	• Join closed groups • Submit a Job	up//root	• Blog • Instagram • Twitter
Workers for Workers	organizing, temporary positions	• #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

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