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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 and materials relevant to their work in [https://www.zotero.org/groups/dlf-labor-wg/items a Zotero group].


=== Contingency and Precarity ===
== Contingency and Precarity ==
Facilitators: Ruth Tillman, Sandy Rodriguez  
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
Topics: Grant-funded & term positions, organizing workers, digitization & labor (including labor of incarcerated workers), labor and digital scholarship, internships, credential creep/credentialism


'''Goals 2018'''
=== Goals 2018 ===
* finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions
* finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions


'''Deliverables'''
=== Deliverables ===
* guideline publication through DLF
* guideline publication through DLF


'''Goals 2017'''
=== Goals 2017 ===
* organizing and setting up logistics for communication;
* organizing and setting up logistics for communication;
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity;
* performing a literature review on contingency and precarity;
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* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions
* drafting guidelines for designing grant-funded positions


'''Deliverables:'''
=== Deliverables ===
* [https://www.zotero.org/groups/1235192/dlf-labor-wg List of readings on contingency and precarity]
* [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/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)]
* [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]]'''
=== [[Labor/Contingency-Precarity/Minutes | Minutes page]] ===


=== Valuing Labor ===  
== Valuing Labor ==
Facilitators: Amy Wickner (Melissa Chalmers, on leave)
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
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


'''Goals 2018'''
=== Activities ===
* Collaborate on a research agenda for valuing labor in digital libraries
* 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)


'''Deliverables'''
=== Outputs ===
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)
* ''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Research-Agenda|Research Agenda: Valuing Labor in Digital Libraries]]'' (August 2018)


'''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes page]]'''
=== Meetings ===
* [[Labor/Valuing-Labor/2019-Calls | 2019 Schedule]]
* '''[[Labor/Valuing-Labor/Minutes | Minutes]]'''

Revision as of 15:48, 19 April 2019

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 and materials relevant to their work in a Zotero group.

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 2018

  • finalizing the guidelines for grant-funded positions

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)

Outputs

Meetings