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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/
www.thecrimson.comWe’re Harvard Library Workers. We Stand in Solidarity with the Study-Ins. | Opinion | The Harvard CrimsonWe library workers call on Harvard libraries to lift the library bans on students, faculty, and staff, and implore Harvard libraries to refrain from disciplining those who study together, united not in disruption but by a shared conviction.
Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace
Brookline.News · Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of 'toxic' workplace - Brookline.NewsFor almost four years, Macy Davis worked as a children’s librarian at the Brookline library’s main branch in Brookline Village. When she resigned in late August to take another position, she became one of the 21 full-time and 28 part-time employees who have left the Public Library of Brookline since 2022. The library employed 65… Read More »Brookline library faces high staff turnover amid allegations of ‘toxic’ workplace …
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
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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
The New York Times · Librarians Struggle With Mental Health After Traumatic Events at Work
Coming spring 2025: Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers
"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!"
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Sending a big shush to governments that say they can't pay library workers a living wage
Halifax Examiner · Sending a big shush to governments that say they can’t pay library workers a living wage
Public libraries on the 2024 chopping block over and over again
https://wellsourced.substack.com/p/public-libraries-on-the-2024-chopping
Well Sourced from Kelly Jensen · Public Libraries On The 2024 Chopping Block Over and Over Again
"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."
app.prospectmagazine.co.uk · Our libraries are on borrowed timeIf shown a little love, these vital community resources can be at the heart of public life once more
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
Louisiana Illuminator · LSU changes tenure rules for librarians to improve its research rankings • Louisiana IlluminatorAs LSU makes its bid for membership in a prestigious academic organization, its librarians have been put on notice to publish more research.
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_?"
Dada Drummer Almanach · Maggie’s Farm
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
Inside Higher Ed | Higher Education News, Events and JobsLibrary faculty eliminated at Western Illinois UniversityThe university laid off all its library faculty as part of massive cuts, leaving employees and supporters to wonder how the library will serve campus constituents.
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
Hot Country 103.5 · A library strike could have big impact on parts of HRM communities: union
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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/
"For many library workers, the material consequences of unchecked capitalism are the stuff of everyday life."
https://inthesetimes.com/article/public-libraries-are-commons-in-america
In These TimesThe Library Is a CommonsA socialist former president of the American Library Association on why defending libraries is fighting capitalism
Cuyahoga County Public Library staff has voted to strike next month if the union and library can't reach a new contract agreement
Ideastream Public Media · Cuyahoga County Public Library staff union votes to strike as wages remain an issue