Library employees at Smith College moved to form a union Friday, the latest in a wave of labor organizing on college campuses in New England
π https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/11/business/smith-college-library-union/
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LISPrecarity #SmithCollege #SmithCollegeLibrariesWorkersUnion #SCLWU #OPEIU #OPEIULocal153 #Northampton
#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
π https://mysaa.archivists.org/NC__Event?id=a0l5a00000GKFxqAAH
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
"[W]e donβt talk enough about the emotional impact that uprooting your life and moving for a career has on people. Not only is it really expensive financially, but there is also a cost if you are moving to a place where you donβt have a community. I donβt think people should have to suffer through this silently, and I hope as a profession we start talking more openly about this reality to challenge this norm."
#LISPrecarity #LibraryWorkers #AcademicLibraries
π https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/25928/33860
When Librarianship Becomes a Dead End Job
#LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibrarySalaries #Salaries #LISPrecarity
π https://acrlog.org/2023/05/23/when-librarianship-becomes-a-dead-end-job/
This post comes from a guest poster, Alejandro Marquez. Alejandro is a Collection Development Librarian at the Auraria Library which serves the University of Colorado Denver, Metropolitan State University of Denver, and the Community College of Denver. The Bookish Blues: When Librarianship Become
Archives hiring managers, unit heads, directors, administrators, and anyone else making hiring decisions or engaged in strategic planning are invited to participate in an online survey to determine the main reasons that repositories hire project archivists
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LISPrecarity #CLIR #ProjectArchivists
π https://unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8HvaiI4wRTQWpxk
Now available: the @archivalworkerscollective's 3rd survey tracking impacts of the pandemic on archival workers, pervasive themes of burnout emerged, largely due to expanding job duties, low pay, inflation, and toxic work environments
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalWorkersCollective #CritArch #LISPrecarity #Archives
π https://awefund.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/archival-workers-collective-2022-survey-summary/
Tomorrow (3/23): the SAA Committee on Ethics and Professional Conduct will host a call on labor issues in archives with #ChrisTanguay, who will provide a brief overview of their work and involvement with issues such as accessibility, inclusive hiring practices, contingent labor (temporary, student, and interns), unionization, and general labor advocacy
#CritArch #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #accessibility #LISPrecarity #LibraryUnions #SAA
π Register at https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkc-qspz0oHtzqdEmPpoM_CiNk3kKAOj5l
"The recruitment/hiring/retention life cycle for Black, Indigenous, and person of color (BIPOC) job candidates for academic and research libraries is fraught with bureaucracy and layers of communication that deter the very DEAI concepts that they aim to practice."
#DEAI #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LISPrecarity #LibraryJobs
π https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/25789/33716
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