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This is a placeholder page for a newly-forming DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries. Look for more info on this group's meetings and activities soon!

Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries

TO JOIN: please sign up for the Google Group.

As of April, 2017, this group is forming two smaller working groups with two facilitators each, based on themes pulled from member introductions and responses to the initial interest survey (now closed).

Contingency and Precarity

Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez Potential topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

Valuing Labor

Facilitators: Melissa Chalmers, Amy Wickner Potential topics: Student labor, student loans, (in)visibility, service, emotional labor, maintenance, labor ethics, apprenticeships, internships, pre-professional training, acculturation, “fit,” hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities, professionalization, credential creep / credentialism, labor and digital scholarship

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 == Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries ==
-If you're interested in being involved, please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].
+TO JOIN: please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].
-Or [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScw2Z4TiUp04rM_nC0ds9j1f137fseb0y6hptjOilDPRbwGqA/viewform submit a form] to suggest focus areas for the group or indicate your interest in other methods of participation.
+As of April, 2017, this group is forming two smaller working groups with two facilitators each, based on themes pulled from member introductions and responses to the initial interest survey (now closed).
+=== Contingency and Precarity ===
+Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez
+Potential topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism
+=== Valuing Labor ===
+Facilitators: Melissa Chalmers, Amy Wickner
+Potential topics: Student labor, student loans, (in)visibility, service, emotional labor, maintenance, labor ethics, apprenticeships, internships, pre-professional training, acculturation, “fit,” hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities, professionalization, credential creep / credentialism, labor and digital scholarship