Unapologetically cross-posted.
New graduates and early career LIS folks take note!
The
organizing committee for the New Librarians Symposium* (NLS) invite you
to submit a lightning talk for our event, happening Friday, June 19,
2020 at Ryerson University (Toronto, ON).
The
theme for this year's event is Libraries and Labour: The Current
Landscape and the Road Ahead. In selecting this theme, we would like to
consider what labour challenges the profession currently faces. What
questions do you have about labour, working conditions, and power
structures? What does the library labour landscape have in common with
the rest of the public sector and how are current provincial, statewide,
or federal governments impacting that landscape? What are the most
pressing labour issues our profession or its organizations need to
address in order to survive in the current society and economy? What
does labour mean to you and how do you engage in asserting or fighting
for your rights?
Submissions should take a critical approach to this topic and address issues not discussed at other conferences in the field. Proposals from BIPOC, LGBTQ folks, and people with disabilities are strongly encouraged. We would like to see as many diverse voices as possible.
Topics for lightning talks may include, but are not limited to:
- Labour unions and the service to their membership
- Power structures and their influence on early career professionals
- Precarious employment and labour
- Interrogating employer and profession-based rhetoric around labour, worker rights, work-life balance, and wellness
- The influence of organizational health on individual workers and service quality
- Personal stories about getting involved in labour issues and why this work matters
- Library leadership and labour
- Caregiving, work-life balance, and their intersections with labour
- Emotional labour, hope labour, or other forms of invisibilized labour
- Contract / collective agreement negotiations
- Academic status and implications for labour
- (In)equity and salary negotiation
If
you have any questions about the lightning talk format (7 minutes of a
presentation, followed by 3 minutes of questions) or the suitability of a
topic, please reach out to Ali Versluis ([log in to unmask]), Hana Storova ([log in to unmask]), or Melanie Cassidy ([log in to unmask]). You can find out more about the New Librarians Symposium by checking out the event website.
*Although
librarian is used in the title of the event, this is used as a catchall
phrase for librarians, archivists, record and knowledge managers, and
everyone in between.
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