The authors' goal is to provide organizers with a resource to form their own mutual aid networks in the Library, Archive, and Museum (LAM) community, as well as bring awareness to existing mutual aid groups and efforts to support LAM workers. This resource will provide possible pathways organizers may take and relevant examples from the workplace, and challenge organizers to interrogate what they define as their community.
They aim to motivate library, archive, and museum workers in the United States to create informed mutual aid networks as a foundation for connecting with and organizing colleagues to take collective action. They hope that these mutual aid networks will communally address issues of precarious employment and limited access to critical resources highlighted by, but not originating from, the COVID-19 pandemic.
This resource contains multiple entry points into mutual aid organizing as well as resources and support that accommodate a spectrum of users at any point in their involvement in mutual aid. If you're new to mutual aid or would like a refresher, the authors recommend that you start with the section, Jumping Into Mutual Aid to ground yourself in the basic concepts, and then move linearly through the content.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Information Science
- Political Science
- Social Science
- Sociology
- Material Type:
- Reading
- Author:
- Amy Wickner
- Caitlin Rizzo
- Carli V. Lowe
- Karly Wildenhaus
- Katharina Hering
- Lauren Goodly
- Lennifer Wachtel
- Lydia Tang
- Mary Kidd
- Sandy Rodriguez
- Date Added:
- 07/25/2023
