Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace

🔗 https://brookline.news/brookline-library-faces-high-staff-turnover-amid-allegations-of-toxic-workplace/

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As libraries become public stages for social problems—homelessness, drug use, mental health—the people who work there are burning out

🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/31/well/mind/librarian-trauma-homeless-drugs-mental-illness.html

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Coming spring 2025: Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers

🔗 https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

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"This summer the administration of Western Illinois University undertook radical action: it eliminated every one of its nine (9) professional librarians. When current contracts expire on May 14 (2025), Western will no longer employ a practicing academic librarian. … Join us in urging WIU to reverse this disastrous decision!"

🔗 https://savewiulibrarians.org/

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Public libraries on the 2024 chopping block over and over again

🔗 https://wellsourced.substack.com/p/public-libraries-on-the-2024-chopping

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"More than a decade of austerity has, however, ravaged the public library sector. […] More than 600 [UK libraries] have been turned into what are euphemistically called 'community' libraries, that is to say run by volunteers. [S]uch efforts mask the reduction of professional expertise across the sector, where the number of qualified librarians has shrunk by more than 12,000 since 2010."

🔗 https://app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/67177/content.html

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Louisiana State University administrators informed librarians their campuses would not hire any more tenure-track librarians and that those on the tenure track or with tenure would have one year to decide if they want to maintain their status and publish more often

🔗 https://lailluminator.com/2024/08/20/lsu-changes-tenure-rules-for-librarians-to-improve-its-research-rankings/

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Western Illinois University is laying off all nine of its library faculty—eight of them tenured or on the tenure track—as part of wider efforts to offset a $22 million budget deficit driven by rising operational costs and a 21 percent enrollment drop since fall 2019

🔗 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/cost-cutting/2024/08/20/library-faculty-eliminated-western-illinois-university

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Three hundred and forty Halifax Public Library workers could be on the picket lines in less than two weeks if an agreement is not reached with library management

🔗 https://hotcountry1035.ca/2024/08/15/87849/

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