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/

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

Coming spring 2025: Organize Your Library! Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers

https://alastore.ala.org/oryrlib

"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/

Public libraries on the 2024 chopping block over and over again

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

"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

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/

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

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/

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

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/

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

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

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

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

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

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/

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/