Labor
This is a page for the DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries.
Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums
Read an announcement on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.
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). Join a sub-group by filling out this form.
Both subgroups are collecting citations and materials relevant to their work in a Zotero group.
Contingency and Precarity
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez
Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism
Goals 2018
- finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions
Deliverables
- guideline publication through DLF
Goals 2017
- organizing and setting up logistics for communication;
- performing a literature review on contingency and precarity;
- analyzing and sharing readings to determine scope of work;
- drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions
Deliverables:
- List of readings on contingency and precarity
- First working draft of the guidelines (comment period closed)
- Second working draft of the guidelines (open comment)
Valuing Labor
Facilitators: Amy Wickner (Melissa Chalmers, on leave)
Topics: Organiz(ed/ing) labor, (in)visibility, maintenance, emotional labor, classification of labor, transitions across categories of labor, worker-centered assessment, hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities
Goals 2018
- Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries
Deliverables
- Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries (August 2018)