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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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Each entry below includes at least some of the following elements:
- Group/campaign name
- Issues covered
- Initiatives
- Resources
- Bibliography
- Communication channels
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American Alliance of Museums
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:
American Association of University Professors
Issues: temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
Bibliography: Reports & Publications
Communication:
American Historical Association
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:
Archives & Records Association (UK)
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)
Archivist Salary Advocacy
Issues: salaries
Resources: Salary Spreadsheet
Communication: Google Group
ARLIS/NA Advocacy & Public Policy Committee
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:
Association of Art Museum Directors
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:
Campaign for a Better MIT
Issues: benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions
Initiatives: Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers
Communication:
Coalition on the Academic Workforce
Issues: temporary positions
Collections on Contract
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives:
Communication:
Collective Responsibility: National Forum on Labor Practices for Grant-Funded Digital Positions
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives:
- advocacy toolkit
- network for contingent workers
- How to Talk About Collective Responsibility at Work
- guidelines for grantmaking
Bibliography:
- Attendee posts
- Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)
Communication:
Crowd Consortium
Issues: volunteers
Resources: Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015)
DLF Labor Working Group
Issues: 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
Communication:
Gender Equity in Museums Movement
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:
Hiring Librarians
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:
Information Maintainers
Initiatives: advocacy toolkit
Bibliography: Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019)
Communication: Google Group
Labor Notes
Issues: unions
Resources:
- Troublemakers School
- Biennial Conference
- Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso
Communication:
Library Salaries Inequity
Issues: salaries
Resources: resource list
Modern Language Association
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:
National Council on Public History
Issues: hiring
Resources: Best Practices in Public History: Job Postings (March 2019)
Communication:
National Emerging Museum Professionals Network
Issues: hiring, salaries
Initiatives:
Communication:
New England Archivists
Issues: temporary positions
Initiatives: New England Archivists Contingent Employment Study (January 2017)
Bibliography: NEA Statement on Contingent Employment (2018)
Communication:
Northwest Archivists
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
Precarity in Libraries
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
Progressive Librarians Guild
Issues: salaries, temporary positions, unions
Communication:
Society of American Archivists Committee on Public Awareness
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:
Society of American Archivists Council
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)
Society of American Archivists Issues & Advocacy Section
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:
Society of American Archivists Students and New Archives Professionals Section
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:
Society of American Archivists Women Archivists Section
Issues: gender equity, salaries
Resources: The 2017 WArS/SAA Salary Survey: Initial Results and Analysis
Society of California Archivists
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:
Society of Southwest Archivists
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:
Tech Workers Coalition
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
University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA)
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:
Workers for Workers
Issues: temporary positions, unions
Initiatives:
Resources:
Communication:
You Ought to Be Ashamed
Issues: hiring, salaries, signal boosting, temporary positions, volunteers
Initiatives: job posting reviews
Communication: blog