American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees, Local 1930 Records
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Abstract
The New York Public Library Guild Local 1930 was chartered by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in April 1968. The Local represents employees in all branch libraries and research libraries of the New York Public Library system, and in the libraries of mayoral departments and agencies. The records consist of constitutions and by-laws, correspondence, minutes, notes, agendas, memoranda, resolutions, legal records, contract negotiations, grievance records, newspapers, publications, tapes, photographs, contact sheets, negatives and memorabilia.
Historical/Biographical Note
The New York Public Library Guild Local 1930 was chartered by the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees in April 1968. The Local represents employees in all branch libraries and research libraries of the New York Public Library system, and in the libraries of mayoral departments and agencies. The bargaining unit includes professional, non-professional and technical titles.
Arrangement
The collection is unprocessed.
Scope and Contents
The records consist of constitutions and by-laws, correspondence, minutes, notes, agendas, memoranda, resolutions, legal records, contract negotiations, grievance records, newspapers, publications, tapes, photographs, contact sheets, negatives and memorabilia. The records reflect the structure and functions of Local 1930 and the Local's relationship with District Council 37, AFSCME, other library locals, and with the AFL-CIO on the state and national levels. The bulk of the material dates from the presidency of David Beasley (1968-1975).
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions, except for disciplinary and termination files located in box 12. Please contact Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives regarding access to these materials, tamiment.wagner@nyu.edu, (212) 998-2630.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright (or related rights to publicity and privacy) for materials in this collection, created by AFSCME, Local 1930, was not transferred to New York University. Permission to use materials must be secured from the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Local 1930; WAG 040; box number; folder number; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Local 1930; WAG 040; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Local 1930 president Sally Campbell in 1979. Many of these materials were salvaged by David Beasley and local volunteers from a fire resulting from the bombing of the Local's former headquarters. The accession number associated with this gift is 1979.017. An additional donation of material was made by Local president Carol Thomas in 2008.
Websites were initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2007 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations (U.S.) Web Archive. In 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website.
In 2017, the original URL associated with this collection, http://www.local1930.org/, became defunct. In 2018, the new URL, https://afscmeatwork.org/new-york-public-library-guild-local-1930/, was added to the web archive. The accession number associated with this website is 2019.093. In 2020, http://www.local1930.org/ was reactivated on the live web and re-added back to the web archives. The accession number associated with this website is 2021.056.
Take Down Policy
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the repository email.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
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Processing Information
In 2014, the archived websites were added to the finding aid. In 2019, additional archived websites were added to the collection.
