Presentation is also available in Summit, SFU's institutional repository: http://summit.sfu.ca/item/18214
Abstract:
Recent surveys show that precarious employment is on the rise in both public library and postsecondary environments. In this session, precariously employed library staff will chart a history of precarity in libraries and explore its effects on library service and work culture. In addition to discussing whether precarity is contrary to diversity and inclusion, the panelists will present original research on the employment landscape in Canadian libraries and share library workers’ perceptions of precarious work. By situating precarity within the BC library context, the panelists will open it up as as a topic for discussion and invite attendees to consider how they experience, enable, and resist precarity in their work environments.