Labor, Staffing, Training

Job Boards

• ALA Job List

• BCALA Job List

• Core Job List

• DLF Job Board

• INALJ

• METRO Job List (NY, NJ, CT tri-state area)

• MLA Job List

• RBMS News and Jobs

• Reforma Job Board

• SAA Career Center

• We Here job submission form

Organizations, Resources

• AFSCME Library Workers

• ALA-Allied Professional Association

  • ALA-APA Start A Union Resources

• ALA: Education and Careers

• ALA Unions and Collective Bargaining Resources

• ARL/MLA Diversity & Inclusion Initiative (DII)

• ARL/SAA Mosaic Program

• Archival Workers Collective

• Best Practices for Archival Term Positions

• Building Lifelong Opportunities for Strength, Self-Care, Outlook, Morale, and Mindfulness Summit 2021 (BLOSSOM)

• Career Enhancement Program (CEP)

• Choosing to Lead: The Motivational Factors of Underrepresented Minority Librarians in Higher Education

• Collective Responsibility Labor Advocacy Toolkit for Libraries, Archives, and Museums

• Conference on Academic Library Management

• Continuing Education for Librarians

• Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures (ALA division)

• DLF Labor Forum

• DLF Working Group on Labor in Digital Libraries

• "Do Better:" Guidelines for Developing and Supporting Grant-Funded Positions in Digital Libraries, Archives, and Museums

• Emergency Workplace Organizing

• EveryLibrary Institute

• Guidelines for Recruiting Academic Librarians (ACRL)

• Hiring Librarians: Blog run by Emily Weak

• Initiative to Recruit a Diverse Workforce (IRDW)

• Journal of New Librarianship

• Labor Lab Resources

• LASSA: Library Assistants and Support Staff Association (METRO, New York, N.Y.)

• Library Carpentry: Software and data skills for people working in library- and information-related roles

• Library Green Book: Guide to working conditions of libraries for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color

• Library Juice Academy

• Library Professionals: Facts and Figures, 2020 report (Department of Professional Employees, AFL-CIO)

• #LIBREV: Lib(Revolution): Online Community for Library Workers

• LIS Mental Health

• LIStening to Students

• Microaggressions in Librarianship

• Mutual Aid at Work

• National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)

• Precarity in LIS: Research Project on precarity in LIS employment

  •  See also @LISprecarity and #LISprecarity on Twitter

• Protect Library Workers resource list

  • See also @OrganizingLIS and #ProtectLibraryWorkers on Twitter

• Renewals: Resources and research on library workers' morale

• Synergy: News from ARL Diversity Programs

• Tracking Library Layoffs

• Union Library Workers

• Wellness for Library Workers (ALA-APA)

Articles, blog posts, etc.

• Berg, Jacob, Angela Galvan, and Eamon Tewell. “Responding To and Reimagining Resilience in Academic Libraries.” Journal of New Librarianship, vol. 3, no. 1, 2018.

• Ettarh, Fobazi. "Vocational Awe and Libraries: The Lies We Tell Ourselves." In the Library with the Lead Pipe, 10 January 2018.

• Farkas, Meredith. “Less Is Not More: Rejecting Resilience Narratives for Library Workers.” American Libraries, 1 November 2017. 

• Galvan, Angela. Soliciting performance, hiding bias: Whiteness and librarianship. 3 June 2015. 

• Hargreaves, Abby. "An Invisible Threat: Compassion Fatigue in Libraries." Book Riot, 29 June 2020.

• Johnson, Kelli. Minority Librarians in Higher Education: A Critical Race Theory Analysis, 2016.

• Kelley, Michael. "Diversity Never Happens: The Story of Minority Hiring Doesn’t Seem To Change Much." Library Journal, 20 February 2013. 

• Kendrick, Kaetrena Davis. “The Low Morale Experience of Academic Librarians: A Phenomenological Study.” Journal of Library Administration, vol. 57, no. 8, 2017.

• Kumaran, Maha. "Leadership in Libraries: A Focus on Ethnic-Minority Librarians." Chandos Publishing, 2012. 

• Olivas, Antonia, and Richard Ma. Increasing Retention Rates in Minority Librarians Through Mentoring, 2009.

• Petersen, Anne Helen. "The Librarians Are Not Okay." May 1, 2022.

• Rivera, Angel. "Booknote: Where are All the Librarians of Color?" The Itinerant Librarian, 10 March 2017. 

• Rodriguez, Sandy, Ruth Tillman, Amy Wickner, Stacie Williams, and Emily Drabinski. "Collective Responsibility: Seeking Equity for Contingent Labor in Libraries, Archives, and Museums." DLF white paper, 2019.

• Schwartz, Meredith. "Library Labor: We Need A National Library Workers Organization." Library Journal, 1 June 2020.

• Smith, Carrie. "Unions 101: What Library Unions do, and don't do, for workers." American Librarian, 1 November 2018.

• Katrina Spencer. "Comprehensive Guide to Resisting Overcommitment." Up-Root, January 17, 2022.

• Stahl, Lynne. "Librarian, Read Thyself." The Rambling, 23 October 2020.

• Stringer-Stanback, Kynita. "Recruitment , Retention, & Diversity In Libraries & Higher Education: Why Doing the Right Thing is Easier Said than Done." North Carolina Libraries, Volume 66, Number 1/2, Spring/Summer 2008.