#protectlibraryworkers — Public Fediverse posts

Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace

🔗 https://brookline.news/brookline-library-faces-high-staff-turnover-amid-allegations-of-toxic-workplace/

#BrooklineMA #BrooklinePublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions

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

"This summer the administration of Western Illinois University undertook radical action: it eliminated every one of its nine (9) professional librarians. When current contracts expire on May 14 (2025), Western will no longer employ a practicing academic librarian. … Join us in urging WIU to reverse this disastrous decision!"

🔗 https://savewiulibrarians.org/

#WesternIllinoisUniversity #WesternIllinois #WIU #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLayoffs #ProtectLibraryWorkers

Sending a big shush to governments that say they can't pay library workers a living wage

🔗 https://www.halifaxexaminer.ca/morning-file/sending-a-big-shush-to-governments-that-say-they-cant-pay-library-workers-a-living-wage/

#HalifaxPublicLibraries #HalifaxPublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #UnionStrike #CanadaLibraries

Western Illinois University is laying off all nine of its library faculty—eight of them tenured or on the tenure track—as part of wider efforts to offset a $22 million budget deficit driven by rising operational costs and a 21 percent enrollment drop since fall 2019

🔗 https://www.insidehighered.com/news/business/cost-cutting/2024/08/20/library-faculty-eliminated-western-illinois-university

#WesternIllinoisUniversity #WesternIllinois #WIU #WesternIllinoisUniversityLibraries #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLayoffs #ProtectLibraryWorkers

On Thursday, August 1st, join Run For Something and For The People: A Leftist Library Project to get the inside scoop on how public libraries function as political institutions, and learn how you can make a difference in strengthening and expanding them

🔗 https://www.mobilize.us/runforsomething/event/641777/

#PublicLibraries #Libraries #RunForSomething #ForThePeople #ProtectLibraryWorkers #InvestInLibraries
#FreedomToRead #BannedBooks

Cuyahoga County Public Library staff has voted to strike next month if the union and library can't reach a new contract agreement

🔗 https://www.ideastream.org/economy/2024-06-24/cuyahoga-county-public-library-staff-union-votes-to-strike-as-wages-remain-an-issue

#CuyahogaCountyPublicLibrary #CuyahogaCounty #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #OhioLabor #OhioUnions

The ALA Allied Professional Association's (ALA-APA) Salaries and Status of Library Workers (SSLW) committee invites you to join them for two sessions:
• 5/1: Empowering Library Workers: Navigating Unionization in Challenging Environments
• 5/8: What Comes after Unionization: Effective Engagement with Library Workers

🔗 https://www.ala.org/news/member-news/2024/04/ala-apa-salaries-and-status-library-workers-committee-host-two-webinars

#ALA #ALAAPA #LIbraryUnions #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers

This week, @librarypunk is joined by Derya of the WPEA to talk about the Fort Vancouver Regional Library and the library staff represented by the union fighting for a living wage

🔗 https://www.librarypunk.gay/e/125-fvrl-and-wpea-union/

#LibraryPunk #WPEA #WashingtonPublicEmployeesAssociation #FortVancouverRegionalLibrary #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions

Librarians lock Autauga-Prattville Public Library in protest after director fired by board

🔗 https://bookriot.com/librarians-lock-autauga-prattville-public-library-in-protest-after-director-fired-by-board/

#AutaugaPrattvillePublicLibrary #BookChallenges #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #BannedBooks #LetFreedomRead #FreeTheBooks #LibraryBoards

Library employees at Smith College moved to form a union Friday, the latest in a wave of labor organizing on college campuses in New England

🔗 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/03/11/business/smith-college-library-union/

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LISPrecarity #SmithCollege #SmithCollegeLibrariesWorkersUnion #SCLWU #OPEIU #OPEIULocal153 #Northampton

West Virginia House passes bill allowing prosecution of librarians

🔗 https://www.newsandsentinel.com/news/local-news/2024/02/west-virginia-house-passes-bill-allowing-prosecution-of-librarians/

#LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #Librarians #Libraries #WestVirginia #HouseBill4654 #WVHB4654

New in C&RL News: "The Library is NOT for Everyone (Yet): Disability, Accommodations, and Working in Libraries"

🔗 https://crln.acrl.org/index.php/crlnews/article/view/26204/34145

#LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #Libraries #Disability #Accomodation #ACRL

Upcoming #LibraryFreedomProject webinar:

Labor Organizing in Libraries
February 28 at 7:00PM ET

With Kelly McElroy and Meredith Kahn, attendees will brainstorm talking unions to skeptical colleagues and discuss strategies to combat disinformation

Registration: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcuce-sqjMrHNK1orEld9-EQ94kd0Uv4dit

#LibraryUnions #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers

Durham County Library workers ask the public to join them and demand their employer:
- Hire more library staff before expanding hours
- Guarantee library workers a day off
- Listen to library workers and provide the support they need to serve the community

🔗 https://actionnetwork.org/letters/durham-library-workers-need-your-help

#DurhamCountyLibrary #DurhamLibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #UELocal150 #NorthCarolinaPublicServiceWorkersUnion

After being fired for opposing book censorship, three librarians have filed workplace discrimination claims with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

🔗 https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-news/librarians-turn-civil-rights-agency-oppose-book-bans-firings-rcna124161

#LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #Librarians #EEOC #LGBTQ #PublicLibraries #DefendLibraries #NoBookBans #FreedomToRead #ReadBannedBooks

#DeathPanel speaks with #MariameKaba and #MelissaGiraGrant about the importance of understanding the library as a site of political contestation and a rare expression of the commons in contemporary US life, and how left organizers are fighting back against right wing attacks on public space

🔗 https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/taking-back-the-library-w-mariame-kaba-melissa-gira-grant-110923

#PublicLibraries #ProtectLibraryWorkers #DefendLibraries #NoBookBans #FreedomToRead #ReadBannedBooks

"The Library Patrons Union is an explicitly leftist, community-run union of Hennepin County Library patrons, organizing for more just public libraries."

🔗 https://librarypatronsunion.com

#LibraryPatronsUnion #HennepinCounty #HennepinCountyLibrary #ProtectLibraryWorkers #PublicLibraries

"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

"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 #PublicLibraries #LibraryLabor

🔗 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."

#LibraryUnions #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #BookBans

🔗 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

#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