2025 HLA Spring MeetingSaturday, May 31, 2025 from 11am-3pm
Platform: Zoom Cost: FREE. [If your membership isn't current, please consider Joining/Renewing Now.] Schedule:
Information about our program, speakers, panelists, and facilitators can be found lower on this page. |
This Year's Theme
Harnessing Our Power as Information Workers The 2025 HLA Spring Meeting harkens back to Hawaiʻi's labor history, when ordinary, everyday, working people found common ground when they were divided. They developed ways to connect and generate their own power across different industrial sectors; to be heard by decision makers; and to ensure inclusivity and fair opportunity in the economy, government, and society. Library workers are part of the education industry. Times have changed. What problems do we see in our sector? How are the foundational values of our profession--such as intellectual freedom, diverse thought, and educational opportunity--holding up? How do we identify and build our capacity as library workers to address issues our profession faces today? |
About the Presentations
Mapping Library Power Structures
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Library Labor Dialogue: Conversations Between Workers & Organizers
Angelo Moreno and Kelly McElroy are two of the authors of Organize Your Library: Developing the Collective Power of Library Workers, which is being published by American Library Association (to be released in the Fall 2025). They will reflect on methods and skills they have gained in organizing library workers at different levels and ecosystems.
About the Panelists and Speakers
ANGELO MORENO
Angelo Moreno has been a library worker since the summer of 2012, when he started as a page at his childhood library. In 2020, he and his co-workers organized a union at the East Lansing Public Library and successfully won wage increases and increased job protections for predominantly part-time, low-wage, precarious staff. He has served as union chair and bargaining committee member.
Kelly mcelroy
Kelly McElroy has worked in public and academic libraries since she was in high school. She is currently an outreach librarian and Associate Professor at Oregon State University, where she also helped organize the faculty union, United Academics OSU. As a unionist, she has served on the bargaining team for multiple rounds of bargaining, including as lead negotiator, and as the Executive Vice President.
HGEA
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UHPA
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HSTA
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