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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 name
- Issues covered
- Initiatives
- Resources
- Bibliography
- Communication channels
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Issues: COVID-19, organizing
Initiatives:
- #closethelibraries
- #ProtectLibraryWorkers & communities: Don't reopen libraries until it's safe
- Tracking Library Layoffs
- Weekly Course of Action
Resources:
- Safe Reopening Resources
- Tips for Productive Advocacy
- Templates for Letters, Recommendations, Petitions
- Mutual Aid & Other Resources
Issues: hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity
Resources:
- Salary Negotiation
- National Museum Salary Survey
- Equitable Hiring Practices
- Resources for the Museum Industry to Discuss the Issue of Unpaid Internships
Bibliography: For Love or Money: Confronting the State of Museum Salaries
Communication:
Issues: temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
Bibliography: Reports & Publications
Communication:
Issues: hiring, temporary position, unions
Resources:
- Guidelines for First-Round Interviews (2019)
- Standards for Part-Time, Adjunct and Contingent Faculty (2011)
Bibliography: Statement on Right to Engage in Collective Bargaining (2019)
Communication:
Issues: salaries, volunteers
Initiatives: Pay Review 2018
Resources:
- Volunteering in Collections Care Best Practices Guidelines & Research Report
- ARA Pay Review Group Summary (August 2018)
- ARA Pay Review Group Freelance Summary (August 2018)
Issues: COVID-19, funding, temporary positions
Initiatives: Become an #AWEfund Storyteller
Resources: Resources for Displaced Archival Workers
Communication: Twitter
Archive Staff Impact During COVID-19
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives: Tracking spreadsheet
Archivist Salary Advocacy
Issues: salaries
Resources: Salary Spreadsheet
Communication: Google Group
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries
Bibliography: New Job Submission Policy
Communication:
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries
Initiatives: News Alerts (see “Workplace” section)
Bibliography: Statement on Staff Reductions in Art Museum Libraries and Visual Resources Collections (December 2013)
Art + Museum Transparency
Issues: internships, salaries, unions
Resources:
- Salary Spreadsheet (began 2019)
- Internship Spreadsheet (began 2019)
- Unions for All: Unionizing Museum and Arts Workers
Communication:
Issues: internships, salaries
Initiatives: Annual salary survey
Bibliography: Association of Art Museum Directors Passes Resolution Urging Art Museums to Provide Paid Internships (June 20, 2019)
Communication:
Issues: benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives: Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers
Communication:
Issues: unions
Initiatives: Librarians' and Archivists' Committee
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Issues: temporary positions
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives:
Communication:
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives:
- advocacy toolkit
- network for contingent workers
- How to Talk About Collective Responsibility at Work
Resources:
Bibliography:
- Attendee posts
- Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)
Communication:
Issues: volunteers
Resources: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015)
Issues: COVID-19, hiring, salaries, temporary positions
Resources:
- “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
Communication:
Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee
Issues: COVID-19, organizing
Initiatives: Organize your Workplace against COVID-19 / Organice su lugar de trabajo contra el COVID-19
Resources: Orientation Guide
Issues: COVID-19, funding
Initiatives: Help a Library Worker Out (HALO) Fund
Communications:
Issues: COVID-19, hiring, internships, salaries, volunteers
Initiatives: Our Campaigns - a list of the organisations we’ve contacted, why contacted them, and how they responded
Resources: Resources
Bibliography:
- 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
Communications:
Issues: COVID-19, temporary positions, valuing labor
Initiatives:
Resources: Front of House in Museums Survey 2019
Bibliography:
Communications:
- #FoHMuseums
- Contact Form
Issues: gender equity
Resources:
- 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
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Issues: hiring, salaries
Initiatives:
- Oh Hey, Share Your Salary Info Today! (August 19, 2019)
- Hiring Librarians survey
- Job hunter’s survey & follow-up interviews
Resources:
- Salary Spreadsheet
- Hiring Librarians' Library Interview Question "Database"
- State of the Library Job Market (October 10, 2015)
Humanities Technology (UCLA)
Issues: internships, temporary positions
Resources: A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015) || ||
Communication:
Initiatives: advocacy toolkit
Bibliography: Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019)
Communication: Google Group
Issues: unions
Resources:
- Troublemakers School
- Biennial Conference
- Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso
- Organizing in a Pandemic: Labor Notes Resources
Communication:
Library Salaries Inequity
Issues: salaries
Resources: resource list
Issues: mentoring, mutual aid
Initiatives:
Communications:
Issues: hiring, salaries, temporary positions
Initiatives:
- Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Humanities
- Committee on Contingent Labor in the Profession
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Museum Staff Impact During COVID-19
Issues: COVID-19
Initiatives: tracking spreadsheet
Issues: hiring
Resources: Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings (March 2019)
Communication:
Issues: hiring, salaries
Initiatives:
Communication:
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives: New England Archivists Contingent Employment Study (January 2017)
Bibliography: NEA Statement on Contingent Employment (2018)
Communication:
Issues: internships
Initiatives:
Resources:
Bibliography:
Communication
@OrganizingLIS
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, unions
Communication: Twitter
Postdoctoral Laborers Group
Issues: temporary positions
Resources: Postdoctoral Bill of Rights (April 9, 2019)
Communication: Google Group
Issues: temporary positions
Resources:
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)
Communication: Twitter
Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions
Communication:
Issues: accessibility of work environment, disability equity, hiring, salaries, temporary positions
Resources:
- Archivists at Home
- Inclusive interviewing and recruitment practices for people with disabilities
- Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities
Communication:
Issues: salaries, signal boosting, student loan debt
Initiatives: Responses & Retrospectives series on ArchivesAWARE blog
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communication:
Issues: internships, volunteers
Initiatives:
Resources:
- Best Practices for Internships as a Component of Graduate Archival Education (January 2014)
- Practices for Volunteers in Archives (June 2014)
Bibliography: Only Paid Internships to Be Posted to the SAA Career Center (July 9, 2019)
Issues: salaries, temporary positions
Initiatives: Temporary Labor Survey
Resources: Advocacy Toolkit
Bibliography: Archivists on the Issues: Rare & Ephemeral: a snapshot of full-time New England archives jobs, 2018-2019
Communication:
Issues: internships, hiring
Initiatives:
- Academic Internship Survey
- #snaprt chats: Topics include barriers to entry into the archival profession; erasure of archival labor; labor issues in archives
Communication:
Issues: gender equity, salaries
Resources: The 2017 WArS/SAA Salary Survey: Initial Results and Analysis
Issues: hiring, internships, salaries, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives: Task Force on Labor Issues within the Profession (2019-2021)
Bibliography: Statement in Support of Temporary Archivists at UCLA
Communication:
Issues: salaries
Resources: Archives Regional Salary Research
Bibliography:
- 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)
Communications:
Issues: unions
Resources:
- Learning Club
- Local chapters (Austin, Berlin, Boston, DC, LA, London, NYC, PDX, San Diego, Seattle, SF Bay Area, South Florida)
Communications:
UC-AFT Unit 17 (UC Librarians)
Issues: unions
Initiatives: Precarity, academic freedom, professional development, working conditions, housing, and the next contract
Resources:
- Our website (and blog) chronicles our campaign and organizing with tools for engagement around our contract
- Bargaining Timeline
- Glossary of Common Terms
Communication:
- Blog
- Media coverage
- Twitter (@UCLibrarians)
- Twitter @UCAFT]
UCLA Six (Temporary Librarians)
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives: Open Letter (June 2018)
Bibliography:
- UCLA Library’s reliance on temporary workers is inefficient, unethical (July 29, 2018)
- SAA Council Resolution Honoring The UCLA Six (August 2019)
Communication: TinyLetter
Issues: benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions
Resources:
- Renewing a Term-Limited Contract
- Employment Equity Guide
- CAUT handbook for new faculty - Negotiating starting salaries
- Negotiating a probationary position
Communication:
Issues: organizing, temporary positions
Initiatives:
Resources:
Communication:
Issues: hiring, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, volunteers
Initiatives: job posting reviews
Communication: blog