The Library Worker
The Library Worker is a project by and for library workers. We explore the current issues happening in public libraries in Canada from a worker perspective.
Episodes
This is the first of two episodes on the Workers Compensation Board. While Occupational Health and Safety is often more familiar to library workers, WCB sometimes isn't. We do our best to explain how we understand WCB and our own thoughts on the barriers that exist in accessing it.
We want to help people understand the tools at their disposal to improve their working conditions, but we are not offering legal advice. If anythi...
The third and final episode in our series on Occupational Health and Safety, in this episode we discuss the four basic worker rights, how to participate in OH&S at work, and how OH&S and the union can work together. We end the episode with a couple of examples of how OH&S can play out in the workplace.
This podcast is not legal advice. Although workplace safety in Canada is federally regulated, territories and pro...
We continue our conversation about Occupational Health and Safety. This episode, we discuss Violence Prevention Programs including training, incident reporting, and workplace inspections.
This podcast is not legal advice and we are only discussing our experiences in library work. Although workplace safety in Canada is federally regulated, territories and provinces are responsible for providing the structures and gui...
In the first of our series on Occupational Health and Safety, we talk about what OH&S is, how it differs in different provinces and territories (spoiler alert: your territorial or provincial government effects how strong your OHS regulations are!)
**This is not legal advice, this is just the two of us discussing our own experiences and hoping to encourage folks to seek out more information on the tools and resources avail...
In the final instalment of this short series, Audrey and I discuss how barriers have been identified and removed from public libraries, what barriers continue to exist, how security does and does not create safer spaces, and how the idea of what security means is used against marginalized patrons.
We discuss how library work has changed over the years, how “innovation” via automation is impacting library work, and how these changes have affected workplace safety.
This is the first part of a longer conversation on the ways that public library work has changed in the last 15-20 years. This episode delves into the changing public expectations of public libraries and how that impacts our work. We get distracted by AI for a second, and the ways that AI enthusiasts think of humans, and how AI is catching us all up.
Audrey and alissa make their first recording. We introduce ourselves, our experience in public libraries, and explain what we hope to do with The Library Worker project.
Please visit our website at The Library Worker. Like what you hear? Get in touch! thelibraryworkers@gmail.com
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