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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

Cover of "Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers" listing authors Angelo Moreno, Kelly McElroy, Meredith Kahn, and Emily Drabinski with an abstract black-and-white pattern of an assembly of blocks

"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

Public libraries on the 2024 chopping block over and over again

🔗 https://wellsourced.substack.com/p/public-libraries-on-the-2024-chopping

#PublicLibraries #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryBudgets #Austerity

"More than a decade of austerity has, however, ravaged the public library sector. […] More than 600 [UK libraries] have been turned into what are euphemistically called 'community' libraries, that is to say run by volunteers. [S]uch efforts mask the reduction of professional expertise across the sector, where the number of qualified librarians has shrunk by more than 12,000 since 2010."

🔗 https://app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/67177/content.html

#UnitedKingdom #Austerity #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #Deprofessionalization

Louisiana State University administrators informed librarians their campuses would not hire any more tenure-track librarians and that those on the tenure track or with tenure would have one year to decide if they want to maintain their status and publish more often

🔗 https://lailluminator.com/2024/08/20/lsu-changes-tenure-rules-for-librarians-to-improve-its-research-rankings/

#LouisianaStateUniversity #LSU #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #Tenure

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

Three hundred and forty Halifax Public Library workers could be on the picket lines in less than two weeks if an agreement is not reached with library management

🔗 https://hotcountry1035.ca/2024/08/15/87849/

#HalifaxPublicLibrary #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #NSUPE #NSUPELocal14 #NovaScotia #Halifax

From a statement of the AAUP—Penn Executive Committee on Penn Libraries United:

🔗 https://aaup-penn.org/statement-of-the-aaup-penn-executive-committee-on-penn-libraries-united/

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnionization #LibraryUnions #PennLibrariesUnited #PennLibraries #Penn #UniversityOfPennsylvania #Unionization #AFSCME #DistrictCouncil47 #AAUP #AAUPPenn

Screenshot of text: "As librarians and other library staff are working to build democratic institutions at Penn, the university administration is attempting to undermine them. As they have repeatedly done in past organizing drives, administrators have hired an anti-union law firm and launched an anti-union campaign designed to interfere with workers’ legal right to organize. They have disseminated misleading and intimidating anti-union materials framed as neutral “information,” a standard tactic that employers use to sow fear, doubt, and confusion and sway the outcome of elections. We call on Penn’s central administration and on library administrators to cease this coercive attempt to interfere with workers’ right to organize, and we call on them to honor the legacy of negotiation with a well-established union at Penn. Only by ending the anti-union campaign can the university administration demonstrate respect for the principle of workplace democracy—a principle that we so desperately need at Penn and across higher education today."

My post for today--> Romance, studying, jealousy, and invisible library labor in “Shoujo Manga Protagonist x Rival San” #invisible #librarylabor #library #librarians #fiction #manga #wordpress #studying #yuri #lgbtq #romance https://popculturelibraries.wordpress.com/2024/06/26/romance-studying-jealousy-and-invisible-library-labor-in-shoujo-manga-protagonist-x-rival-san/

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

On June 21, 2024, librarians, curators, developers, and other staff at the Penn Libraries delivered a letter to the Vice Provost/Director of the Penn Libraries announcing that they are unionizing as Penn Libraries United (PLU)

🔗 https://pennlibrariesunited.github.io/blog/firstpost/

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnionization #LibraryUnions #PennLibrariesUnited #PennLibraries #Penn #UniversityOfPennsylvania #Unionization #AFSCME #DistrictCouncil47

We Here's (@wehere) new course will study a snapshot of the histories of academic librarians, focusing on the 1950s–1970s towards asking what is the professionalization of librarianship, and why did it happen? For who did it happen? How does it affect today's profession?

🔗 https://www.wehere.space/shop/p/howweworkbetter2024

#AcademicLibraries #AcademicLibrarians #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #WeHere #Professionalization #MLIS #JaimeDing

The ALA Social Responsibilities Round Tables (SRRT) is accepting proposals for a free virtual Afternoon of Social Justice event, with "Library labor and unionization" as one of the topics for which they are soliciting presentation proposals

🔗 https://forms.gle/2yxQY9eVG2H2jpV18

#AmericanLibraryAssociation #ALA #SRRT #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnionization

Leaders of New York City's three library systems have for months warned that if budget cuts instituted last year and funding reductions that together total nearly $60 million included in Mayor Eric Adams' executive budget are enacted, Saturday service across the five boroughs' 219 branches could be eliminated

🔗 https://thechiefleader.com/stories/city-libraries-face-prospect-of-5-day-weeks,52374

#LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions #NYC #AFSCME #DC37 #NYPL #NewYorkPublicLibrary #QPL #QueensPublicLibrary #BPL #BrooklynPublicLibrary #EricAdams

The Machinists (#IAM) union, which represents Baltimore County Public Library (#BCPL) workers, is celebrating the passage of the Library Workers Empowerment Act, a milestone piece of legislation initiated by the IAM last year that will grant library staff across Maryland the right to organize

🔗 https://aflcio.org/2024/4/18/service-solidarity-spotlight-iam-hails-passage-library-worker-rights-legislation

#LibraryWorkersEmpowermentAct #BaltimoreCountyPublicLibrary #HB609 #SB591 #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #LibraryUnions

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

The Public Library Routines Project (PLRP) aims to uncover problematic routines in public libraries and learn their impacts, what staff do to work around them, and how successful are those workarounds

🔗 https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/cic/research/sponsored_awards/library_routines/

#PublicLibraries #LibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor

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