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== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==
== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums ==


Read [https://www.diglib.org/archives/13524/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.  
Read [https://www.diglib.org/proposal-for-a-dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries-archives-and-museums/ an announcement] on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.  


TO JOIN: please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].  
TO JOIN: please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].  
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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 [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOHRLXfTLn2B-quqLbrVLS_JHsnsHAGrX_867BYthEKr9cSw/viewform this form].
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 [https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScOHRLXfTLn2B-quqLbrVLS_JHsnsHAGrX_867BYthEKr9cSw/viewform this form].


Both subgroups are collecting citations and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group].
Both subgroups are collecting citations, related groups and initiatives, and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group] and [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]).


=== Contingency and Precarity ===
== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez  
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez  


Potential topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism
Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism
=== Goals 2019 ===
As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum:
* developing a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
* constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders


[[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]]
=== Deliverables ===
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1]
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents]


=== Valuing Labor ===  
=== Goals 2018 ===
Facilitators: Melissa Chalmers, Amy Wickner
* finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant
* conducting a survey on the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers


Potential topics: Student labor, student loans, (in)visibility, service, emotional labor, maintenance, labor ethics, apprenticeships, internships, pre-professional training, acculturation, “fit,hiring and retention practices especially re: members of marginalized communities, professionalization, credential creep / credentialism, labor and digital scholarship
=== 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 ===
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MVt7JhlRZapZdk4jefOsi9gLxuj1OOEZXAznoeLeYrA/ First working draft of the guidelines (comment period closed)]
* [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C0VSpyM4z5co9BrrhgQX0Jtvhc79Wtmlq_va4kQYiR0/edit?usp=sharing Second working draft of the guidelines (open comment)]
 
=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===
 
== 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
 
=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
* Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
* Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
* Research projects (2020)
** To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
** What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
** What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?
 
=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* Related Groups, Initiatives, and Resources: [[Labor/Resources|Table]] / [[Labor/Resources-Mobile|List]] (November 2019 with ongoing updates)
 
=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Revision as of 15:12, 17 January 2020

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, related groups and initiatives, and materials relevant to their work in a Zotero group and resource table (also available as a list).

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 2019

As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum:

  • developing a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
  • constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

Deliverables

Goals 2018

  • finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions
  • applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant
  • conducting a survey on the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers

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

Minutes page

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

Activities

  • Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries (2018)
  • Host working conversations to highlight advocacy, research, and skills of relevance to working group members (2019)
  • Create a list of groups and campaigns also working on labor issues (2019)
  • Research projects (2020)
    • To what extent and how are digital LAM workers organized?
    • What organizing and advocacy tactics can be effective while minimizing risk for workers?
    • What are creative and effective ways to share data about digital LAM labor?

Outputs

Meetings