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This is a placeholder page for a newly-forming DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries]. Look for more info on this group's meetings and activities soon!
This is a page for the DLF [https://www.diglib.org/groups/dlf-working-group-on-labor-in-digital-libraries/ Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries]. 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.


== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries ==
== Communication and Shared Working Spaces ==


TO JOIN: please [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/dlf-labor-working-group/ sign up for the Google Group].  
* Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. [https://groups.google.com/g/dlf-labor-working-group Ask to join.]
* Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg our Zotero group]
* Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
* Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs


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).
Most of our collaborative writing and meeting minutes are now done using Google Drive. We have also used RiseUpPad for occasions when we want to create a more anonymous context.
 
== Resources ==
 
* This wiki page collects information about groups and campaigns working on labor issues in and adjacent to libraries, archives, and museums: [[Labor/Resources|resource table]] and ([[Labor/Resources-Mobile|also available as a list]]). (ongoing)
* [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit] (2020)
* [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] (2020)
* [https://osf.io/m6gn2/ White paper from Collective Responsibility Phase 1] (2019)
* [https://osf.io/af9hz/ Survey results and project documents] (2019-2020)
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
 
== SubGroups ==
 
Note: as of Feb 2021, Amy Wickner has transitioned off the Valuing Labor subgroup and we're welcoming three new co-facilitators for Valuing Labor. We're planning a whole group meeting to discuss possible new subgroups and one-off projects.  


=== Contingency and Precarity ===
=== Contingency and Precarity ===
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez
Facilitators: Sandy Rodriguez, Ruth Tillman
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 2020 ====
* Develop [https://toolkit.dobetterlabor.com/ Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit]
* Promote publication [https://dobetterlabor.com/ "Do Better" -Love(,) Us: Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums] and explore next steps toward adoption.
 
==== Activities ====
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
* applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
* As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
** conducting a survey to develop 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]] ====
 
=== Valuing Labor ===
Facilitators: Stephanie Bennett, Leanne Finnigan, Ellen LeClere
 
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?
* Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)


=== Valuing Labor ===  
==== Meetings ====
Facilitators: Melissa Chalmers, Amy Wickner
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
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
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Latest revision as of 12:25, 10 February 2021

This is a page for the DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries. Read an announcement on the group's formation, by Ruth Tillman.

Communication and Shared Working Spaces

  • Listserv: Google Group dlf-labor-working-group. Ask to join.
  • Zotero: Find citations and materials relevant to our work in our Zotero group
  • Slack: To join our Slack, contact Ruth at rkt6 at psu.edu.
  • Twitter: Join the conversation with these hashtags #DLFLabor, #LaborWG, #LibLabor, #LAMLabor, #PrecarityIs

Most of our collaborative writing and meeting minutes are now done using Google Drive. We have also used RiseUpPad for occasions when we want to create a more anonymous context.

Resources

SubGroups

Note: as of Feb 2021, Amy Wickner has transitioned off the Valuing Labor subgroup and we're welcoming three new co-facilitators for Valuing Labor. We're planning a whole group meeting to discuss possible new subgroups and one-off projects.

Contingency and Precarity

Facilitators: Sandy Rodriguez, Ruth Tillman

Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism

Goals 2020

Activities

  • performing a literature review on contingency and precarity (2017)
  • drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions (2018-2019)
  • applying for IMLS National Leadership in Libraries forum grant (2018)
  • As part of the Collective Responsibility Labor Forum (2018-2020):
    • conducting a survey to develop a collective understanding of the experiences of grant-funded digital LAM workers
    • constructing best practices, recommendations, and benchmarks appropriate to participating institutions and funders

Minutes page

Valuing Labor

Facilitators: Stephanie Bennett, Leanne Finnigan, Ellen LeClere

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?
  • Bibliography & resource-building: library labor news and organizing resources during covid-19 (2020)

Meetings