CAUT Librarians and Archivists Conference (Ottawa, 03–04 October 2025): "Solidarity or Bust: Resisting Corporatization in Libraries and Archives"
https://www.caut.ca/event/librarians-and-archivists-conference/
Agenda includes: corporatization, AI, building solidarity; also workshops on McAlevey's Organizing for Power system.
In my experience these conferences are great.
(#CAUT is the Canadian association of higher-ed faculty and librarian associations and unions.)
Hiring Librarians Podcast S02b E13: Talkin Union with Jaime Taylor
We’re back!
After an unintentionally long break, we’re back. Let’s consider this Season 2b.
This episode my guest is Jaime Taylor. Jaime is a contributing person-who-hires-library-workers on the Further Questions feature here on Hiring Librarians (which returns tomorrow), the Discovery & Resource Management Systems Coordinator at the W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts, a proud union member, AND a coordinator of library staff working in THREE different unions. On this episode of the hiring librarians podcast, we’re talking about unions, hiring, getting hired, and what exactly systems librarians do anyway. I hope you enjoy and I’d love to hear your thoughts on the topic.
An AI-generated and not completely error free transcript is here.
Speaking of links, in this episode we talk about:
This podcast is available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube music and other various podcasting sites (let me know if you can’t find it on your preferred platform).
I’d love to hear your requests or other feedback for moving forward. And please do reach out if you want to be a guest!
#Librarian #librarians #libraries #Library #libraryCareers #libraryHiring #libraryJobs #LibraryUnions #LISCareers #Unions
I bought a variety of cool stickers and buttons from @Anneheathen and will be giving some to union-librarian colleagues. There are dozens available: if you like books and libraries and dislike interfering bigots, you'll find something you want.
A union arbitration (on a grievance about lack of librarian hiring) set for next week was abruptly cancelled today by the Employer and rescheduled for April ... of 2026.
"How about never—is never good for you?"
Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace
#BrooklineMA #BrooklinePublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions
For almost four years, Macy Davis worked as a children’s librarian at the Brookline library’s main branch in Brookline Village. When she resigned in late August to take another position, she became one of the 21 full-time and 28 part-time employees who have left the Public Library of Brookline since 2022. The library employed 65… Read More »Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of ‘toxic’ workplace …
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
#ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #UrbanLibrariansUnite #UrbanLibrarians #UrbanLibraries #LibraryWorkerSupportNetwork
Coming spring 2025: Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers
🔗 https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #AngeloMoreno #KellyMcElroy #MeredithKahn #EmilyDrabinski #ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation
Sending a big shush to governments that say they can't pay library workers a living wage
#HalifaxPublicLibraries #HalifaxPublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #UnionStrike #CanadaLibraries
the somerville city worker union's statement on why the main public library is closed every weekday afternoon
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/
#HalifaxPublicLibrary #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #NSUPE #NSUPELocal14 #NovaScotia #Halifax
Coming spring 2025: Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers
🔗 https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #AngeloMoreno #KellyMcElroy #MeredithKahn #EmilyDrabinski #ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation
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Hiring Librarians
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