"Staffing (73%) was named as the top challenge limiting program and service offerings" –2022 Public Library Services for Strong Communities Report

#PublicLibraries #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryWorkers #austerity #staffing

🔗 https://www.ala.org/pla/sites/ala.org.pla/files/content/data/PLA_Services_Survey_Report_2023.pdf

"Houston Independent School District will be eliminating librarian positions at 28 schools this upcoming year and converting the libraries into 'Team Centers' where kids with behavioral issues will be sent, the district announced."

#LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #HoustonIndependentSchoolDistrict #Houston

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2023/07/26/hisd-to-eliminate-librarians-turn-libraries-into-discipline-centers-at-28-campuses/

For The People has created a toolkit for anyone to host a Libraries & Lemonade event to get the word out about why taking action for our public libraries is essential

#PublicLibraries #ForThePeople #LibrariesAndLemonade #DefendPublicLibraries #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryFunding #NoCutsToLibraries

🔗 https://librariesforthepeople.substack.com/p/announcing-libraries-and-lemonade

@ryanrandall Yes! The #ProtectLibraryWorkers hashtag was actually one I first suggested back in the early days. 🖤 Happy how much life it's had but heartbreaking to think back on as so much of that solidarity and care has faded in our professional communities. https://twitter.com/OrganizingLIS/status/1248755871049490437

@OrganizingLIS @platypus This is/was/continues to be part of what some of us were trying to ward against with the #ProtectLibraryWorkers hashtag, for whatever that's worth.

The connection to Long COVID can always stand to be emphasized again, a little louder, until people in GLAM situations start to care for each other.

"Scratch nearly any kind of story—political, social, economic, cultural, and so on—and you’ll find a labor story. […] Public libraries are no exception, and Republicans’ current headline-grabbing obsession with what goes on inside them is very much a labor issue."

#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #BookBans #ProtectLibraryWorkers #DanielBooneRegionalLibrary

🔗 https://www.fastcompany.com/90881286/book-bans-drag-story-hour-protests-librarians-safety

"The [Ferndale Library] union campaign gave the library workers something concrete to ask their patrons and the broader community to do if they wanted to strengthen their library, too, a way to be part of defending the library from the kinds of hostile book challenges other libraries nearby […] had been bombarded with, where responding to challenges had become a full-time job for some library workers."

#FerndaleAreaDistrictLibrary #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers

🔗 https://newrepublic.com/article/170920/conservative-book-bans-libraries-fighting-back

"'I don’t know how the college plans to maintain the library after the librarians are gone,' he said. 'When I asked the library's director, Samantha Hines, what the plan was for the library, she told me at the time they had no idea.'"

#LinnBentonCommunityCollege #Albany #LibraryLabor #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryWorkers

🔗 https://lbcommuter.com/2023/03/20/lbcc-faculty-speak-out-against-college-budget-cut-targets/

Streaming now (and accessible to watch after the event concludes):

Essential to the Public: Libraries at the End of the World, featuring #EmilyDrabinski and moderated by #MariameKaba

#PublicLibraries #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #critlib

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcPEEy6bBfo

Huntsville Public Library (TX) Privatized After Pride Display https://bookriot.com/huntsville-public-library-privatization/

#LibraryServicesSystems #HuntsvillePublicLibrary #BannedBooksWeek #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #ALA

"Libraries are necessary social infrastructure, sites for the distribution of social goods and among the last remaining public squares. But the library cannot function without its workers, and those workers must be protected."

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers

https://truthout.org/articles/facing-threat-of-far-right-violence-library-workers-seek-safety-in-unionization/

"The primary goals are more pay equity and gender and racial diversity. Pages and circulation specialists, for example, make far less than librarians… The growing movement nationwide to censors books also spurred action among library workers."

#LibraryLabor #ProtectLibraryWorkers #BookBans #BookChallenges

via Workers move to unionize at Ferndale Area District Library as censorship grows nationwide https://www.metrotimes.com/news/workers-move-to-unionize-at-ferndale-area-district-library-as-censorship-grows-nationwide-31810178

"The primary goals are more pay equity and gender and racial diversity. Pages and circulation specialists, for example, make far less than librarians… The growing movement nationwide to censors books also spurred action among library workers."

#LibraryLabor #ProtectLibraryWorkers #BookBans #BookChallenges

https://www.metrotimes.com/news/workers-move-to-unionize-at-ferndale-area-district-library-as-censorship-grows-nationwide-31810178

#ALA's upcoming #LibLearnX will feature a workshop led by Emily Drabinski and Leah Richardson on "Organizing for Change," introducing basic principles of organizing using collective power for social change #critlib #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers

https://www.2023.alaliblearnx.org/ala-presidential-programs

A #LibraryLabour comrade is editing a special issue of a journal that focuses on the labour activism of postsecondary information workers in Canada. They are seeking feedback on what you'd like to read about in terms of academic libraries, archives, museums and organizing. Please take a minute to chime in!

https://www.reddit.com/r/OrganizingLibraries/comments/zeaah4/canadian_association_of_university_teachers

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #ArchivalLabor #CAUT #ArchivalWorkers #HigherEdWorkersUnite #InformationWorkers

RT @wylie_alan@twitter.com

Good ventilation is also crucial for Public Libraries acting as ‘warm hubs’
#libraries
#COVID19
#protectlibraryworkers https://twitter.com/libdempatrick/status/1599451997551218689

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/wylie_alan/status/1599466734137638914

Library workers: consider unionizing now — even if you like your current management, even if you like your current board — as a hedge against conditions changing in an instant.

#LibraryWorkers #PublicLibraries #union #unions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibrariesAreForEveryone

RT @braunsk@twitter.com

New Orleans libraries close for deep cleaning after staff member tests positive #ProtectLibraryWorkers https://wwl.radio.com/articles/3-public-libraries-in-no-shutdown-due-to-covid-19

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/braunsk/status/1289721742810738688

RT @braunsk@twitter.com

DCPL is one of my favorite local libraries, but when a library closes because a staff member tests positive, patrons and staff need to be informed in a timely manner, while respecting privacy. And seriously, #ProtectLibraryWorkers and #WearAMask. https://thehillishome.com/2020/07/the-northeast-library-closed-wednesday-due-to-covid/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/braunsk/status/1284490684817440769

RT @librarianjenn@twitter.com

Here is ⁦@BookRiot@twitter.com⁩, once again, being spot on with a piece about the disregard for library worker safety. #ProtectLibraryWorkers https://bookriot.com/2020/05/20/library-staff-safety/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/librarianjenn/status/1263296582478376960