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  1. New post: Stories from Native Land: Grant Termination impacts on Indigenous Archives, part of the Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives & Archival Workers series. (10th in the Impacts series) awefund.wordpress.com/2026/02/ (or link in bio) #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers

  2. New post: Impacts of the Trump Administration on archives and archival workers: Impacts on National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Employees (9th in the Impacts series) awefund.wordpress.com/2025/09/ (or link in bio) #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers

  3. Updated: Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers: Hiring Freezes and Workforce Reductions awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/ (or our link in bio) #solidarity #archivalworkers

  4. New post: Impacts of the Trump Administration on archives and archival workers: Risks to Immigrants and Activists (Fifth in the Impacts Series) awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/ #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers

  5. New post: Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers: Hiring Freezes and Workforce Reductions (Fourth in the Impacts Series) awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/ #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers

  6. New blog post: Impacts of the Trump administration on archives and archival workers: Day 1. Check our link in our bio for our first batch of stories. Please keep sharing them with us! #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers

  7. "Social justice issues are not separate from archival practice. We wanted to make explicit how incarceration intersects with archives and archivists' work." -- Alison Clemens & Jessica Farrell. CLIR Releases New Report: Archival Actions, Abolitionist Futures: Reimagining Archival practice Against Incarceration -- buff.ly/40M5sw9 #archivalworkers #archivallabor

  8. A question relevant to #LibraryWorkers and #ArchivalWorkers:

    "[A] nonprofit will always draw people willing to take the same job for less, because they want to be part of the mission. Does that mean […] that to balance its budget a nonprofit _depends on discounted labor_? That the organization is essentially _underwritten by its own staff_?"

    🔗 dadadrummer.substack.com/p/mag

    #VocationalAwe #NonprofitLabor #Nonprofit

  9. Society of American Archivists' Committee on Public Policy (COPP) and Issues & Advocacy (I&A) Section will host a virtual joint business meeting/annual program on 7/24, 11am–12:30pm (CT)

    The meeting will begin with a business session, followed by a workshop on organizing and building power with coworkers facilitated by the Emergency Workplace Organizing Committee

    Register: connect.archivists.org/events/

    #SAA #EWOC #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #Unionization #EmergencyWorkplaceOrganizingCommittee

  10. "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

    🔗 sites.google.com/view/mutualai

  11. 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

    🔗 connect.archivists.org/events/

  12. 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

    🔗 connect.archivists.org/events/

  13. 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

    🔗 connect.archivists.org/events/

  14. 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

    🔗 connect.archivists.org/events/

  15. 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

    🔗 connect.archivists.org/events/

  16. 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

    🔗 unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/for

  17. 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

    🔗 unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/for

  18. 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

    🔗 unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/for

  19. 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

    🔗 unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/for

  20. 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

    🔗 unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/for

  21. Responses to the Oral History Worker Survey will help inform future organizing and advocacy efforts to support people who do oral history work in various fields (deadline: April 25)

    #OralHistoryWorkers #OralHistory #CritArch #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalLabor

    🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI

  22. 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

    🔗 awefund.wordpress.com/2023/04/

  23. 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

    🔗 Register at us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regist

  24. On the agenda for the February 1/3 #SocietyofAmericanArchivists Council Meeting (www2.archivists.org/groups/saa):

    "Developing Organizational Support for Archival Workers Labor Needs," which proposes a task force to explore which labor issues #SAA could provide support for, funding methods, resource distribution, et al.

    #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalLabor #Archives #AWEFund #CritArch #AWC

    🔗 www2.archivists.org/sites/all/

  25. On the agenda for the February 1/3 #SocietyofAmericanArchivists Council Meeting (www2.archivists.org/groups/saa):

    "Developing Organizational Support for Archival Workers Labor Needs," which proposes a task force to explore which labor issues #SAA could provide support for, funding methods, resource distribution, et al.

    #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalLabor #Archives #AWEFund #CritArch #AWC

    🔗 www2.archivists.org/sites/all/

  26. On the agenda for the February 1/3 #SocietyofAmericanArchivists Council Meeting (www2.archivists.org/groups/saa):

    "Developing Organizational Support for Archival Workers Labor Needs," which proposes a task force to explore which labor issues #SAA could provide support for, funding methods, resource distribution, et al.

    #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalLabor #Archives #AWEFund #CritArch #AWC

    🔗 www2.archivists.org/sites/all/

  27. On the agenda for the February 1/3 #SocietyofAmericanArchivists Council Meeting (www2.archivists.org/groups/saa):

    "Developing Organizational Support for Archival Workers Labor Needs," which proposes a task force to explore which labor issues #SAA could provide support for, funding methods, resource distribution, et al.

    #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalLabor #Archives #AWEFund #CritArch #AWC

    🔗 www2.archivists.org/sites/all/

  28. On the agenda for the February 1/3 #SocietyofAmericanArchivists Council Meeting (www2.archivists.org/groups/saa):

    "Developing Organizational Support for Archival Workers Labor Needs," which proposes a task force to explore which labor issues #SAA could provide support for, funding methods, resource distribution, et al.

    #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalLabor #Archives #AWEFund #CritArch #AWC

    🔗 www2.archivists.org/sites/all/

  29. This session from #CLAPS2022 asks "what if we—in the library and archives field—were taught to think of ourselves as workers--under racial capitalism?" #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #DEAI #MLIS

    youtu.be/KptBLeiq96I

  30. This session from #CLAPS2022 asks "what if we—in the library and archives field—were taught to think of ourselves as workers--under racial capitalism?" #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #DEAI #MLIS

    youtu.be/KptBLeiq96I

  31. This session from #CLAPS2022 asks "what if we—in the library and archives field—were taught to think of ourselves as workers--under racial capitalism?" #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #DEAI #MLIS

    youtu.be/KptBLeiq96I

  32. This session from #CLAPS2022 asks "what if we—in the library and archives field—were taught to think of ourselves as workers--under racial capitalism?" #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #DEAI #MLIS

    youtu.be/KptBLeiq96I

  33. This session from #CLAPS2022 asks "what if we—in the library and archives field—were taught to think of ourselves as workers--under racial capitalism?" #LibraryWorkers #ArchivalWorkers #DEAI #MLIS

    youtu.be/KptBLeiq96I

  34. Coming in 2024—"Creating Ethical Temporary Positions in Archives: Best Practices and Case Studies" from the Council on Library and Information Resources' new Pocket Burgundy publication series #CLIR #archives #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LISPrecarity

    clir.org/2022/12/clir-announce

  35. Coming in 2024—"Creating Ethical Temporary Positions in Archives: Best Practices and Case Studies" from the Council on Library and Information Resources' new Pocket Burgundy publication series #CLIR #archives #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LISPrecarity

    clir.org/2022/12/clir-announce