Update: the first stories are up at https://awefund.wordpress.com/category/blog/
Dear Colleagues,
The Archival Workers Collective (AWC) solicits your story about the impacts of the Trump Administration on Archives and Archival Workers. Have the dismantling of IMLS, NEH, National Park Service, and other government agencies affected you and your institution? Have the White House’s policies on DEIA initiatives or other activities caused you to change how you conduct your work? Share your story! The Archival Workers Collective is a grassroots collective of archival workers. We seek to gather and amplify the stories of archives and archival workers on our blog to spread the word on how these actions are impacting our field.
Please share the AWC story-gathering form widely and add your own story!
When filling out this form, please only share information and phrasing that you feel comfortable with us sharing. The responses will be viewed by organizers of the Archival Workers Collaborative. We will do our best to share the stories that are submitted but if there are capacity constraints, we may need to share selected submissions. If you have any questions or feedback, please email us at archivalworkerscollective@gmail.com.
In addition to this initiative, we seek to amplify the data-gathering efforts of allied groups and encourage you to share your data in the initiatives that fit best for you.
If you see additional initiatives that we should add to this list, please let us know!
If you are a federal worker impacted by layoffs, please also view this Society of American Archivists resource page.
I also encourage you to visit the AWC Mutual Aid at Work website and document if that is of interest.
In solidarity,
Members of the Archival Workers’ Collective
~Lauren Goodley, Digital Archivist
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