Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace
#BrooklineMA #BrooklinePublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions
#ProtectLibraryWorkers
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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
#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
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