#archivalworkers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #archivalworkers, aggregated by home.social.
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"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 -- https://buff.ly/40M5sw9 #archivalworkers #archivallabor
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As the Academy's museum expands, it cuts more than a dozen library and archives staff
🔗 https://www.indiewire.com/news/breaking-news/academy-cuts-library-and-archives-staff-1235061796/
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #AcademyFilmArchive #AcademyMuseum
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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_?"
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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
#SAA #EWOC #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #Unionization #EmergencyWorkplaceOrganizingCommittee
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In the January/February 2024 issue of #ArchivalOutlook (2/2):
The State Historical Society of Iowa's Labor Collection and the Value of Archival Labor
🔗 https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=814779&p=12&ver=html5
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #SAA #IowasLaborCollection #BowdoinCollege
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In the January/February 2024 issue of #ArchivalOutlook (1/2):
Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement
🔗 https://mydigitalpublication.com/publication/?m=30305&i=814779&p=10&ver=html5
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #ArchivalUnions #SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #SAA #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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#SAA will host a virtual webinar on October 30 titled "Navigating Barriers to Ethical Labor Practices," which will discuss issues related to emotional labor, precarity, and inequitable workload
#SocietyOfAmericanArchivists #KaetrenaDavisKendrick #ChrisTanguay #SheridanSayles #ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LISPrecarity
🔗 https://mysaa.archivists.org/NC__Event?id=a0l5a00000GKFxqAAH
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👀 the Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement zine created for #saa23!
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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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
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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
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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
🔗 https://unlv.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8HvaiI4wRTQWpxk
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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
🔗 https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeB8ok0odbMTqh6T3NdmSumVi_nx2rA2oIO2oI_Z8LwVrpVQA/viewform
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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
🔗 https://awefund.wordpress.com/2023/04/17/archival-workers-collective-2022-survey-summary/
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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 https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkc-qspz0oHtzqdEmPpoM_CiNk3kKAOj5l
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On the agenda for the February 1/3 #SocietyofAmericanArchivists Council Meeting (https://www2.archivists.org/groups/saa-council/february-1-3-2023-council-meeting-agenda):
"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
🔗 https://www2.archivists.org/sites/all/files/0223-V-A-ArchLaborSupport.pdf
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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
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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
https://www.clir.org/2022/12/clir-announces-pocket-burgundy-awards/
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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!
#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #ArchivalLabor #CAUT #ArchivalWorkers #HigherEdWorkersUnite #InformationWorkers