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== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries ==
== Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries ==
Read [https://www.diglib.org/archives/13524/ 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].  

Revision as of 10:10, 13 April 2017

This is a placeholder page for a newly-forming DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries. Look for more info on this group's meetings and activities soon!

Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries

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).

Contingency and Precarity

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

Valuing Labor

Facilitators: Melissa Chalmers, Amy Wickner 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