We're excited to share recordings of "If We Could Have Just 10 Minutes of Your Time," a trio of virtual events packed with practical tips and expert guidance from a range of thought-leaders! https://alastore.ala.org/10minutes
#ALA #AmericanLibraryAssociation #LIS #MLIS #libraries #librarianship #InformationScience #librarywork #libraryWorkers
Library Management 101: Why Catalog how things work when you can instead waste money to figure out how things work
#Library #LibraryLife #LibraryWorkers
Hey #libraryworkers! We’re hosting a free panel to help you overcome those pesky writing obstacles that prevent you from sharing your awesome ideas, work, and/or research with others. Please join us June 9th at 3 Eastern. Learn more and register at bit.ly/LWCpanel2025
Happening now, VIUFA members attending:
CAUT Webinar: Workload Strategies and Support for Librarians and Archivists // Wébinaire de l'ACPPU: Charge de travail - Stratégies et soutien pour les bibliothécaires et les archivistes
City councilors, union continue push for sick leave for Boston Public Library employee with cancer https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2025/02/27/city-councilors-staff-union-push-for-sick-leave-for-boston-public-library-employee-with-cancer/ #Boston #Union #LibraryWorkers
"Urban Librarians Unite" is hosting a peer support network for those affected by the California wildfires, or those working with affected communities.
Tuesday January 14th at 5:30 PT or
Saturday January 18th at 1pm PT.
Register at www.libraryworkersupport.org
#wildfires #california #californiawildfires #library #libraryworkers
We’re Harvard Library Workers. We Stand in Solidarity with the Study-Ins.
🔗 https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/11/7/bergamasco-tuttle-harvard-library-workers-solidarity/
#LibraryWorkers #WidenerLibrary #HarvardLibrary #HarvardLibraries #HarvardUniversity #Palestine #PalestineSolidarity
Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace
#BrooklineMA #BrooklinePublicLibrary #LibraryWorkers #ProtectLibraryWorkers #LibraryLabor #LibraryUnions
Librarians with an ALA-accredited Master’s degree, or equivalent, from all types of libraries are encouraged to participate in a survey measuring wellbeing at work for librarians
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
It's student orientation! I have just had a student pat me gently on the arm and tell me I needed a coffee.
She was not wrong. 😅
Hey #libraryworkers! Do you wish you had extra motivation for writing? Would a two-hour block on your calendar dedicated to writing help? If so, join us for the LWC's Monthly Writing Time! Starts September 20. Details at https://sites.google.com/uri.edu/library-writing-cooperative/monthly-writing-time
"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
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
#LouisianaStateUniversity #LSU #LibraryLabor #LibraryWorkers #Tenure
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_?"
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
