"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/

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

#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions

https://bit.ly/OrgArchZine

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#

"Mutual Aid at Work" provides organizers with a resource to form their own mutual aid networks in the Library, Archive, and Museum (LAM) community, brings awareness to existing mutual aid groups and efforts to support LAM workers, and provides possible pathways organizers may take

#MutualAid #LAM #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #MuseumWorkers #DLFLabor #AWC

🔗 https://sites.google.com/view/mutualaidatwork/

Making Trouble That Matters: We must mobilize on behalf of #libraries and #libraryWorkers
Emily Drabinski's first editorial as #ALA president.
https://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/2023/07/19/making-trouble-that-matters/

"We structure systematic reviews, unjam staplers, read stories to children, drive bookmobiles, show people to the bathroom, program author talks, and build open access institutional repositories." <---what library workers actually do, possibly all in the same day

RSVP for a NYC Union Library Worker Picnic on August 13th in Central Park 🌳

#NYCUnionLibraryWorkers #UFT #PSC_CUNY #DC37 #Local1321 #Local1482 #Local1930 #LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers

https://bit.ly/UnionNYC

"Librarians at Miami University have won their union and the power to bargain for better wages and working conditions protected by a legal contract, after a unanimous vote in favor of representation by the Faculty Alliance of Miami, part of the American Association of University Professors and the American Federation of Teachers."

#MiamiUniversity #LibraryUnions #Ohio #Libraries #LibraryWorkers #AcademicLibraries

🔗 https://www.aft.org/press-release/miami-university-librarians-win-union-join-faculty-alliance-miami

"Led by suffragist and public librarian Maud Malone, [the Library Employee's Union (LEU) of the New York Public Library] was the first of five American Federation of Labor affiliates to emerge at large east coast libraries. Though they disbanded by the end of the 1920s, the LEU instigated spirited debates about unionization across the field of American librarianship."

#NewYorkPublicLibrary #NYPL #LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers

🔗 https://www.nypl.org/blog/2023/06/06/struggle-stacks-researching-nypls-labor-history

"But from the other side of the reference desk, [Fobazi Ettarh] saw how the [library] industry’s ideals concealed its low pay. In her first position out of grad school, Ms. Ettarh’s supervisor told her, 'No one becomes a librarian to make a living wage.' (Ms. Ettarh was making $48,000 at the time.) She eventually left the industry."

#VocationalAwe #FobaziEttarh #LibraryWorkers

🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/05/opinion/employment-exploitation-unions.html

"The library is not treated as a priority, and this has taken its toll. A workplace once known for its people staying for full 40-year careers has suddenly become a place of rapid and constant turnover, as new recruits discover our working conditions and poor morale and soon make for the exits."

#DartmouthCollege #LibraryLabor #LibaryUnions #LibraryWorkers

🔗 https://www.thedartmouth.com/article/2023/06/wolfe-dartmouth-library-staff-need-a-union

"[W]e don’t 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 don’t have a community. I don’t 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

🔗 https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/25928/33860

Sign a letter of support for the Dartmouth College Library Workers Union

#MedLibs #DartmouthCollege #LibraryLabor #LibaryUnions #LibraryWorkers

🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1XdSov6Frx0YyKhjRqdQ6wExUEKVhK2UVtMECslL1lUY/viewform?edit_requested=true

When Librarianship Becomes a Dead End Job

#LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibrarySalaries #Salaries #LISPrecarity

🔗 https://acrlog.org/2023/05/23/when-librarianship-becomes-a-dead-end-job/

Is anyone familiar with the Association of Internet Research Specialists (AOFIRS)? Is the membership worthwhile? The trainings? Looking for feedback from #librarians #libraryworkers #libraries.

The ALA-APA Salaries and Status of Library Workers committee will host "Doing the Work: Unions, Coalitions, and Front-line Library Workers" on 6/25 at #ALAAC23

#ALA #ALAAPA #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions

🔗 https://ala-apa.org/newsletter/2023/04/12/doing-the-work-unions-coalitions-and-front-line-library-workers/

"For years, advocates have warned that many students do not have access to a library or a certified librarian on their campus. The nation’s largest school system, with 1,600 schools, has roughly 260 certified school librarians, education department officials said."

#SchoolLibraries #NewYorkCity #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor

🔗 https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/5/5/23712879/nyc-schools-without-librarian

"[Librarian Helene Gold] suggested the move 'feels like a deliberate and targeted attack on our students who need support now more than ever. Removing a key figure from the college's academic support team does not serve in the college's or students' best interest and feels like it was intended to actively demoralize and destabilize our community.'"

#NewCollege #SaveNewCollege #LibraryWorkers #LGBTQ #Florida

🔗 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-takes/2023/05/04/new-college-florida-abruptly-dismisses-librarian

Timely toolkit for #LibraryWorkers looking for strategies for pushing back on white nationalism and its ilk - https://www.westernstatescenter.org/libraries

The folks at Western States Center are also doing presentations and workshops about the toolkit, so if you're interested, give them a ping! I can also connect you to the person who has been working on the toolkit if you prefer.

"Because library management failed to adequately address these risks, union members stood in solidarity together and negotiated a contract that not only provides temporary transfers for endangered workers but also includes notification procedures to alert workers at various branches when a patron is banned."

#LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #LibrarySafety #WorkersMemorialDay #CarnegieLibraryOfPittsburgh #UAW

🔗 https://www.alternet.org/union-members-workers-memorial-day/