Metro New York Labor Communications Council Records
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The Metro New York Labor Communications Council (Metro) was established in 1974 as a forum for labor communicators to discuss ideas and challenges of communications work within organized labor. Metro offers workshops on photography, writing, and web design, as well as seminars on issues facing the organized labor movement. It is affiliated with the International Labor Communications Association, the AFL-CIO, and maintains a relationship with the New York City Central Labor Council. The organization holds an annual convention and communications contest, rewarding labor journalists, photographers, graphic artists, editors, and publications. The Metro New York Labor Communications Council Records (dated 1974-2022) consist of materials created or collected by the Metro New York Labor Communications Council documenting the organization's activities, as well as the broader context of reporting on the labor movement. Administrative records are in both paper and electronic format, and include meeting agendas, meeting minutes, memoranda, newsletters, event ephemera, reports, and copies of articles on a variety of labor-related topics, such as union organizing, collective bargaining, legislation, and coalition building. The collection also includes the organization's historical materials, including a constitution, by-laws, a code of ethics, and financial reports. A substantial portion of the organization's administrative records document the organization's annual convention and annual communications awards, including planning documents and ephemera. The collection documents an expansive understanding of labor communications, encompassing websites, writing, photography, visual art, video graphic design, and social media. In addition to documenting the activities of the Metro New York Labor Communications Council, the collection also documents the broader context of labor journalism through materials used in workshops and electronic video recordings of panel discussions.
Historical Note
The Metro New York Labor Communications Council (Metro) was established in 1974 as a forum for labor communicators to discuss ideas and challenges of communications work within organized labor. Metro offers workshops on photography, writing, and web design, as well as seminars on issues facing the organized labor movement. It is affiliated with the International Labor Communications Association, the AFL-CIO, and maintains a relationship with the New York City Central Labor Council. The organization holds an annual convention and communications contest, rewarding labor journalists, photographers, graphic artists, editors, and publications.
Source:
Metro New York Labor Communications Council. "About Us." http://metrolabornyc.org/about (retrieved September 27, 2017).
Arrangement
This collection has not been arranged by an archivist. The materials are primarily arranged chronologically, in the order in which they were received from the donor.
Scope and Contents
The Metro New York Labor Communications Council Records (dated 1974-2022) consist of materials created or collected by the Metro New York Labor Communications Council documenting the organization's activities, as well as the broader context of reporting on the labor movement. Administrative records are in both paper and electronic format, and include meeting agendas, meeting minutes, memoranda, newsletters, event ephemera, reports, and copies of articles on a variety of labor-related topics, such as union organizing, collective bargaining, legislation, and coalition building. The collection also includes the organization's historical materials, including a constitution, by-laws, a code of ethics, and financial reports. A substantial portion of the organization's administrative records document the organization's annual convention and annual communications awards, including planning documents and ephemera. The collection documents an expansive understanding of labor communications, encompassing websites, writing, photography, visual art, video graphic design, and social media. In addition to documenting the activities of the Metro New York Labor Communications Council, the collection also documents the broader context of labor journalism through materials used in workshops and electronic video recordings of panel discussions.
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Conditions Governing Access
Materials are open without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Any rights (including copyright and related rights to publicity and privacy) held by the Metro New York Labor Communications Council, the creator of this collection, were relinquished and transferred to the public domain in 2017 by the Metro New York Labor Communications Council. These materials are governed by a Creative Commons CC0 license, which permits publication and reproduction of materials accompanied by full attribution. See, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Metro New York Labor Communications Council Records; WAG 339; box number; folder number or item identifier; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
To cite the archived website in this collection: Identification of item, date; Metro New York Labor Communications Council Records; WAG 339; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by the Metro New York Labor Communications Council, 2017. The accession number associated with this gift is 2017.053. In August 2023, Margarita Aguilar donated additional materials; the accession number associated with this accretion is 2023.111.
https://metrolabornyc.org/ was initially selected by curators and captured through the use of The California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2011 as part of the Labor Unions and Organizations Web Archive. In November 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 2023, the website was re-aadded to the web archives. The accession number associated with this website is 2023.091.
Born-Digital Access Policies and Procedures
Advance notice is required for the use of computer records. Original physical digital media is restricted. An access terminal for born-digital materials in the collection is available by appointment for reading room viewing and listening only. Researchers may view an item's original container and/or carrier, but the physical carriers themselves are not available for use because of preservation concerns.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
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 special.collections@nyu.edu.
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.
About this Guide
Processing Information
At the time of accessioning materials were kept in original folders, but moved into an archival box. The collection was kept in the original arrangement it arrived in and described on the collection level. Three copies of brochures were kept with remainders discarded.
In 2023, the archived website was added to the container list.
In 2023, an accretion of paper and electronic administrative records were rehoused in archival boxes and folders, and integrated into the existing collection. Electronic records of thumb drives were transferred off of their physical carriers into networked storage. New York University Libraries follow professional standards and best practices when imaging, ingesting, and processing born-digital material in order to maintain the integrity of the content.
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Administrative Records, 1974-2016, inclusive
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Archived Website
Accruals
New site crawls are accrued annually.
Appraisal
Crawl was limited to domains and subdomains of https://metrolabornyc.org/ in order to remain within the collection scope and data constraints.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Externally hosted content
https://wayback.archive-it.org/6349/*/https://metrolabornyc.org/
