| Group/Campaign |
Issues Covered |
Initiatives |
Resources |
Bibliography |
Communication Channels
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| American Alliance of Museums |
hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity
|
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• 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
|
• 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
|
| 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
|
| 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
• 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
• guidelines for grantmaking
|
|
• Attendee posts
• Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)
|
• #IMLSLaborForum
• #CollectiveResponsibility
|
| Crowd Consortium |
volunteers |
|
Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015) |
|
|
| DLF Labor Working Group |
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 |
• Google Group
• #DLFLabor
|
| 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)
|
|
|
| Information Maintainers |
|
advocacy toolkit |
|
Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019) |
Google Group
|
| Labor Notes |
unions |
|
• Troublemakers School
• Biennial Conference
• Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso
|
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• Magazine Archives
• Twitter
|
| Library Salaries Inequity |
salaries |
|
resource list |
|
|
| 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
|
| 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
|
| 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 |
NWA Archivist-in-Residence |
|
|
• 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)
|
Twitter
|
| Progressive Librarians Guild |
salaries, temporary positions, unions |
|
|
|
• Union Library Workers
• discussion list
|
| 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
|
| Humanities Technology (UCLA) |
internships, temporary positions |
|
A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015) |
|
• Blog
|
| 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
|
| Workers for Workers |
temporary positions, unions |
• #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
|
