New post: Impacts of the Trump Administration on archives and archival workers: Risks to Immigrants and Activists (Fifth in the Impacts Series) https://awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/27/risks-to-immigrants-and-activists/ #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers
#ArchivalWorkers
New post: Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers: Hiring Freezes and Workforce Reductions (Fourth in the Impacts Series) https://awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/21/hiring-freezes-and-workforce-reductions/ #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers
New post: Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers: Fortepan US (Third in the Impacts Series) https://awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/impacts-of-the-trump-administration-on-archives-and-archival-workers-fortepan-us/ #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers
Share Your Story: Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers https://awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/trump-impact-survey/ #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers
New post: Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers: Federal Workers and Grant Cancellations (Second in the Impacts Series) https://awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/impacts-of-the-trump-administration-on-archives-and-archival-workers-federal-workers-and-grant-cancellations/ #solidarity #archiveslabor #archivalworkers
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
New Blog Post: Survey Launch: Impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers https://awefund.wordpress.com/2025/05/05/trump-impact-survey/ #solidarity #archivalworkers #archiveslabor
"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
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
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_?"
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
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
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
#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
… because archivists work in caves, obviously! #khoekhoegowab #isiZulu #isiXhosa #etymology #archivists #ArchivalWorkers #linguisticshumour
👀 the Organizing Archivists: Archives and Libraries in the Labor Movement zine created for #saa23!
#ArchivalLabor #ArchivalWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions
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
"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
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
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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