| Group/Campaign |
Issues Covered |
Initiatives |
Resources |
Bibliography |
Communication Channels
|
| #PROTECTLIBRARYWORKERS |
COVID-19, organizing |
• #closethelibraries
• #ProtectLibraryWorkers & communities: Don't reopen libraries until it's safe
• Tracking Library Layoffs
• Weekly Course of Action
|
• Safe Reopening Resources
• Tips for Productive Advocacy
• Templates for Letters, Recommendations, Petitions
• Mutual Aid & Other Resources
|
|
#LIBREV
|
| AFSCME |
unions |
Cultural Workers United |
• COVID-19 resources
• FAQ
|
• Why Organize?
• Weekly legislative reports
|
• Blog
• Facebook (AFSCME)
• Facebook (AFSCME)
• Instagram
• Twitter (CWU)
• YouTube
|
| AFT Academics |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
• Solidarity Academy
• Organizer Trainings
|
• Organizing Toolkit
• Know Your Rights
• International Worker Rights
• Supporting Students During COVID-19
• International Students & Workers FAQ
• Online Teaching Toolkit (Association of College and University Educators)
|
• National COVID-19 Response Statement
• Adjunct Faculty Survey Report
• Principles for Higher Education Response to COVID-19
• Uprising Solidarity Statement
|
• Facebook
• Twitter
|
| American Alliance of Museums |
hiring, salaries, volunteers, gender equity
|
|
• 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
|
| Archival Workers Emergency Fund |
COVID-19, funding, temporary positions |
• Become an #AWEfund Storyteller
• COVID-19 Impact on Archival Workers Survey
|
Resources for Displaced Archival Workers |
Open Letter to the Archival Community re: Police Brutality |
Twitter
|
| Archive Staff Impact During COVID-19 |
COVID-19 |
spreadsheet |
|
|
|
| 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
|
| Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York |
hiring, internships, salaries |
|
COVID-19 Resources |
New Job Submission Policy |
• Facebook
• Instagram
• LinkedIn
• Medium
• Twitter
|
| 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
|
| BIPOC Library Residents Mutual Aid |
COVID-19, mutual aid, BIPOC/BAME network, temporary positions |
• BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Need Survey
• Matchmaking for BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Needs During COVID-19 (form)
• Matchmaking for BIPOC Library Residents: Immediate Needs During COVID-19 (spreadsheet)
|
|
COVID Residents Open Letter |
|
| Campaign for a Better MIT |
benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions |
Forming a union: Support the MIT Library Workers |
|
|
• #abetterMIT
• Facebook
• Instagram
• News
• Twitter
|
| Canadian Association of University Teachers / Association canadienne des professeures et professeurs d’université (CAUT) |
COVID-19, unions |
Librarians' and Archivists' Committee |
• CAUT Guidelines for Re-opening Canada’s Universities and Colleges (May 2020)
• COVID-19 and the Academic Workplace: Questions & Answers
|
• 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)
|
• Facebook
• LinkedIn
• RSS
• 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
|
• Collective Responsibility Labor Toolkit
••• Evaluating Project Design for Worker Equity
••• Recommendations to Funders: Promoting Equitable Approaches to Project Staff Design
|
• Attendee posts
• Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums (September 2019)
|
• #IMLSLaborForum
• #CollectiveResponsibility
|
| Creating National Library Worker Union |
organizing, unions |
Petition |
|
|
|
| Crowd Consortium |
volunteers |
|
Best Practices for Crowdsourcing Across the Disciplines (May 6, 2015) |
|
|
| DLF Labor Working Group |
COVID-19, 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
• COVID-19 bibliography
|
• Google Group
• #DLFLabor
|
| Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee |
COVID-19, organizing |
Organize your Workplace against COVID-19 / Organice su lugar de trabajo contra el COVID-19 |
Orientation Guide |
|
|
| EveryLibrary Institute |
COVID-19, funding |
Help a Library Worker Out (HALO) Fund |
|
|
• Contact
• Twitter
|
| Fair Museum Jobs |
COVID-19, hiring, internships, salaries, volunteers |
Our Campaigns - a list of the organisations we’ve contacted, why contacted them, and how they responded |
Resources |
• 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
|
• Contact Form
• Twitter
|
| Front of House in Museums (FoHMuseums) |
COVID-19, inclusion, temporary positions |
• Campaigning
• Advocacy
• Celebrating
|
Front of House in Museums Survey 2019 |
• What's in a Coffee?
• A Joint Statement on the Coronavirus Pandemic
• Reopening the Museum
|
• #FoHMuseums
• Contact Form
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
| 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)
|
|
|
| Humanities Technology (UCLA) |
internships, temporary positions |
|
A Student Collaborators’ Bill of Rights (June 8, 2015) |
|
• Blog
|
| Information Maintainers |
|
advocacy toolkit |
|
Information Maintenance as a Practice of Care: An Invitation to Reflect and Share (June 17, 2019) |
Google Group
|
| Labor Notes |
COVID-19, organizing, unions |
|
• Troublemakers School
• Biennial Conference
• Secrets of a Successful Organizer / Secretos de un organizador exitoso
• Organizing in a Pandemic: Labor Notes Resources
|
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• Magazine Archives
• Twitter
|
| LACUNY |
COVID-19, mutual aid |
LACUNY Mutual Aid Network |
|
• LACUNY Statement on COVID-19
• Letter of Support and Solidarity
|
|
| Library Salaries Inequity |
salaries |
|
resource list |
|
|
| Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Workers |
unions |
|
|
|
Twitter
|
| Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) |
mentoring, mutual aid |
• MARAC Mutual Aid Network
• Mentoring Program
|
|
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• MARAC Steering Committee Proposal Form
• Twitter
|
| 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
|
| Movement for Black Lives |
BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, temporary positions, unions |
• Project 2024
• Economic Justice policy platform
• National Demands for COVID-19
• Week of Action
• Virtual Events
• Petition
|
• Policy Platforms
• Mutual Aid Resources
• Resources on Safety and Infiltration (.zip folder)
|
|
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
• YouTube
|
| Museum Detox |
COVID-19, BIPOC/BAME network |
• Museum Detox Survey
• Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (application instructions)
• Museum Detox Coronavirus Emergency Fund (GoFundMe)
|
Coronavirus Covid-19: Information and guidance
|
|
• Blog
• Instagram
• Twitter
• Vimeo
|
| Museum Staff Impact During COVID-19 |
COVID-19 |
spreadsheet |
|
|
|
| Museum Workers Speak |
COVID-19, funding, mutual aid |
• Museum Workers Relief Fund
• 2020 Museums & Race Imagine a [Radical Future virtual conference]
|
Resources |
Statement (May 1, 2020) |
• Email
• Twitter
• Facebook
|
| Music Library Association |
COVID-19 |
MLA Emergency Relief Fund |
MLA Survey of Personnel Characteristics (2009) |
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• Listserv
• Twitter
• Vimeo
|
| 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, salaries |
• NWA Archivist-in-Residence
• Survey: The Value of Archivists in the Northwest
|
• Northwest Archivists (NWA): Policy for Acceptable Job Postings
|
• NWA Policy for Acceptable Job Postings
|
• 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
|
| Rutgers AAUP-AFT |
COVID-19, unions |
• Rutgers One
• How We're Confronting the Crisis
• Here's What We're Fighting For
• Defend Lincoln Annex
• A People-Centered Approach to COVID Crisis
• Work Sharing Proposal – May 2020
• Libraries Solidarity
• Salary Equity Program
|
Union Fireside Chats |
• Statement: Justice for George Floyd
• Statements and Resolutions
• Questions and Answers about the “Fiscal Emergency”
• Special Alerts
|
• Facebook
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
| Society of American Archivists Accessibility & Disability Section |
accessibility of work environment, disability equity, hiring, salaries, temporary positions |
|
• Archivists at Home
• Inclusive interviewing and recruitment practices for people with disabilities
• Guidelines for Accessible Archives for People with Disabilities
|
|
• Email
• Twitter
|
| Society of American Archivists Committee on Public Awareness |
salaries, signal boosting, student loan debt |
Responses & Retrospectives series on ArchivesAWARE blog |
|
• 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)
|
Blog
|
| 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
|
| UC-AFT Unit 17 (UC Librarians) |
unions |
Precarity, academic freedom, professional development, working conditions, housing, and the next contract
|
• Our website (and blog) chronicles our campaign and organizing with tools for engagement around our contract
• Bargaining Timeline
• Glossary of Common Terms
|
|
• Blog
• Facebook
• Media coverage
• Twitter (@UCLibrarians)
• Twitter @UCAFT]
|
| 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
|
| United Academics of the University of Oregon |
salaries, temporary positions, unions |
|
• Information for Librarians
• UA Bargaining 101
• We Are Building Our Union
|
• We Need Our Librarians! (May 15, 2020)
• United Academics Statement on Use of Blackface (November 4, 2016)
|
• Facebook
• The Duck & Cover (newsletter)
• Twitter
|
| University of Western Ontario Faculty Association (UWOFA) |
benefits, salaries, temporary positions, unions |
|
• Renewing a Term-Limited Contract
• Employment Equity Guide
• CAUT handbook for new faculty - Negotiating starting salaries
• Negotiating a probationary position
|
|
• Blog
• Twitter
|
| We Here |
BIPOC/BAME network, COVID-19, mutual aid |
• Community School
• COVID-19 Relief Grants for We Here's Black Members
|
• Join closed groups
• Submit a Job
|
up//root
|
• Blog
• Instagram
• Twitter
|
| Workers for Workers |
organizing, temporary positions |
• #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
|
