Archival Workers' CollectiveJan 24, 2025
"Social justice issues are not separate from archival practice. We wanted to make explicit how incarceration intersects with archives and archivists' work." -- Alison Clemens & Jessica Farrell. CLIR Releases New Report: Archival Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival practice Against Incarceration -- https://buff.ly/40M5sw9 #archivalworkers #archivallabor
CLIR Releases New Report in Pocket Burgundy Series—Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration • CLIR

  Alexandria, VA, January 9, 2025—The Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) is pleased to announce the publication of Archivist Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival Practice Against Incarceration, edited by Alison Clemens and Jessica Farrell. This report is the latest addition to CLIR’s Pocket Burgundy series, which features concise publications on critical topics relevant Read More

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OrganizingLISNov 2, 2024

As the Academy's museum expands, it cuts more than a dozen library and archives staff

🔗 https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/academy-cuts-library-and-archives-staff-1235061796/

#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #AcademyFilmArchive #AcademyMuseum

The Academy Cuts Library and Archives Staff

A dozen or more senior staffers have lost their jobs during a continuing restructuring. But at what cost?

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OrganizingLISJun 28, 2024

Society of American Archivists' Committee on Public Policy (COPP) and Issues & Advocacy (I&A) Section will host a virtual joint business meeting/annual program on 7/24, 11am–12:30pm (CT)

The meeting will begin with a business session, followed by a workshop on organizing and building power with coworkers facilitated by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

Register: https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=826825e6-8f75-4af8-89ef-018f30f11b1b&Home=%2fevents%2fcalendar

#SAA #EWOC #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #Unionization #EmergencyWorkplaceOrganizingCommittee

Committee on Public Policy/Issues and Advocacy 2024 Annual Meeting

DESCRIPTION The Society of American Archivists' Committee on Public Policy (COPP) and the Iss

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Show threadOrganizingLISFeb 27, 2024

In the January/February 2024 issue of #ArchivalOutlook (2/2):

The State Historical Society of Iowa's Labor Collection and the Value of Archival Labor

🔗 https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=814779&p=12&ver=html5

#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #SAA #IowasLaborCollection #BowdoinCollege

Archival Outlook January/February 2024 Page 10

OrganizingLISFeb 27, 2024

In the January/February 2024 issue of #ArchivalOutlook (1/2):

Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement

🔗 https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=814779&p=10&ver=html5

#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalUnions #SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #SAA #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions

Archival Outlook January/February 2024 Page 8

OrganizingLISSep 13, 2023

#SAA will host a virtual webinar on October 30 titled "Navigating Barriers to Ethical Labor Practices," which will discuss issues related to emotional labor, precarity, and inequitable workload

#SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #KaetrenaDavisKendrick #ChrisTanguay #SheridanSayles #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LISPrecarity

🔗 https://mysaa.archivists.org/NC__Event?id=a0l5a00000GKFxqAAH

Event | Society of American Archivists

Show threadOrganizingLISJul 27, 2023

👀 the Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement zine created for #saa23!

#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions

https://bit.ly/OrgArchZine

OrganizingArchivistsZine_20230725.pdf

Google Docs
OrganizingLISJul 26, 2023

Tomorrow (7/27) at 3:45pm U.S. Eastern time (at #saa23 + online):

Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement

#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions

https://whova.com/embedded/session/NFdCWcgMulEQMwx9Xmlwgf4rdPHHEcJf8mkv5hKzZJ8%3D/3016045/?widget=primary#

ARCHIVES*RECORDS 2023 Agenda on Whova

July 26 – 29, 2023, Washington, DC

OrganizingLISJul 11, 2023

Digitization and Exploitation: Acknowledging and Addressing the Use of Exploitative Prison Labor by Libraries and Archives

#digitization #LibraryLabor #ArchivalLabor #PrisonLabor
#incarceration

https://doi.org/10.1086/725070

OrganizingLISJun 14, 2023

The SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct annual meeting on July 13 will feature guest speakers from the Term Labor Best Practices Working Group, who will discuss the development and recommendations of their white paper (free and open to all)

#SAA #SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #TermLabor #LISPrecarity #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #archives

🔗 https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=ffae775b-dcf6-46d0-a790-01877b58a100

Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct (2023 Meeting)

DESCRIPTION After a brief Committee business meeting, the Committee on Ethics and Profession

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