Good morning,

I'd like to invite members of the list to consider joining a new Working
Group on Labor in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums. The working
group will operate under the umbrella of the Digital Library Forum, but one
does not have to be a member or attend the forum to participate.

Conversations around labor issues in the profession are not new. But at the
DLF Forum this past fall and at other conferences and meetings (including
CHSC Summit and SAA), certain aspects of how labor practices affect the
work we do have come up again and again. What kind of guidelines for
creating healthier grant-funded positions might be provided for grant
writers and reviewers? Should LAM institutions be contracting with the
prison-industrial complex at all? Are there concrete steps that could be
taken to make this contracted employment of incarcerated persons more
ethical? How can institutions address the problems of credential creep in
DH and other positions?

These problems aren't unique to the digital sphere. However, one must start
somewhere and the DLF has offered to provide a space for this work and may
endorse and promote its outcomes. If you're interested, please read the
full post on the DLF website. I look forward to feedback and hope to work
with some of you on this:

https://www.diglib.org/archives/13524/

Sincerely,
Ruth Kitchin Tillman

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Ruth Kitchin Tillman

Digital Collections Librarian

Hesburgh Libraries

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