diff --git a/packages/api/src/jobs/update_db.ts b/packages/api/src/jobs/update_db.ts
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..096111606
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/api/src/jobs/update_db.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+import { authTrx } from '../repository'
+
+export const UPDATE_LABELS_IN_LIBRARY_ITEM_JOB = 'update-labels-in-library-item'
+
+export interface UpdateLabelsInLibraryItemData {
+  libraryItemId: string
+  userId: string
+}
+
+export const updateLabelsInLibraryItem = async (
+  data: UpdateLabelsInLibraryItemData
+) => {
+  return authTrx(
+    async (tx) =>
+      tx.query(
+        `WITH labels_agg AS (
+          SELECT array_agg(l.name) AS names_agg
+          FROM omnivore.labels l
+          INNER JOIN omnivore.entity_labels el ON el.label_id = l.id 
+          LEFT JOIN omnivore.highlight h ON h.id = el.highlight_id 
+          WHERE el.library_item_id = $1 OR h.library_item_id = $1
+        )
+        UPDATE omnivore.library_item li
+        SET label_names = COALESCE((SELECT names_agg FROM labels_agg), ARRAY[]::TEXT[])
+        WHERE li.id = $1;`,
+        [data.libraryItemId]
+      ),
+    undefined,
+    data.userId
+  )
+}
diff --git a/packages/api/src/queue-processor.ts b/packages/api/src/queue-processor.ts
index cd89e1c69..c2379c432 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/queue-processor.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/queue-processor.ts
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/restrict-template-expressions */
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/require-await */
 /* eslint-disable @typescript-eslint/no-misused-promises */
-import { Job, Queue, QueueEvents, Worker, JobType } from 'bullmq'
+import { Job, JobType, Queue, QueueEvents, Worker } from 'bullmq'
 import express, { Express } from 'express'
 import { SnakeNamingStrategy } from 'typeorm-naming-strategies'
 import { appDataSource } from './data_source'
@@ -11,10 +11,14 @@ import { findThumbnail, THUMBNAIL_JOB } from './jobs/find_thumbnail'
 import { refreshAllFeeds } from './jobs/rss/refreshAllFeeds'
 import { refreshFeed } from './jobs/rss/refreshFeed'
 import { savePageJob } from './jobs/save_page'
+import { triggerRule, TRIGGER_RULE_JOB_NAME } from './jobs/trigger_rule'
+import {
+  updateLabelsInLibraryItem,
+  UPDATE_LABELS_IN_LIBRARY_ITEM_JOB,
+} from './jobs/update_db'
 import { updatePDFContentJob } from './jobs/update_pdf_content'
 import { redisDataSource } from './redis_data_source'
 import { CustomTypeOrmLogger } from './utils/logger'
-import { triggerRule, TRIGGER_RULE_JOB_NAME } from './jobs/trigger_rule'
 
 export const QUEUE_NAME = 'omnivore-backend-queue'
 
@@ -125,6 +129,8 @@ const main = async () => {
           return findThumbnail(job.data)
         case TRIGGER_RULE_JOB_NAME:
           return triggerRule(job.data)
+        case UPDATE_LABELS_IN_LIBRARY_ITEM_JOB:
+          return updateLabelsInLibraryItem(job.data)
       }
     },
     {
diff --git a/packages/api/src/services/labels.ts b/packages/api/src/services/labels.ts
index 564a1e2da..03f9eec7b 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/services/labels.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/services/labels.ts
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ import { Label } from '../entity/label'
 import { createPubSubClient, EntityType, PubsubClient } from '../pubsub'
 import { authTrx } from '../repository'
 import { CreateLabelInput, labelRepository } from '../repository/label'
+import { enqueueUpdateLabelsInLibraryItem } from '../utils/createTask'
+import { logger } from '../utils/logger'
 
 type AddLabelsToLibraryItemEvent = {
   pageId: string
@@ -120,6 +122,10 @@ export const saveLabelsInLibraryItem = async (
       userId
     )
   }
+
+  // update labels in library item
+  const job = await enqueueUpdateLabelsInLibraryItem({ libraryItemId, userId })
+  logger.info('update labels in library item job created', job)
 }
 
 export const addLabelsToLibraryItem = async (
diff --git a/packages/api/src/utils/createTask.ts b/packages/api/src/utils/createTask.ts
index 4e3ed31ce..5196f5d31 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/utils/createTask.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/utils/createTask.ts
@@ -17,6 +17,10 @@ import {
 import { THUMBNAIL_JOB } from '../jobs/find_thumbnail'
 import { queueRSSRefreshFeedJob } from '../jobs/rss/refreshAllFeeds'
 import { TriggerRuleJobData, TRIGGER_RULE_JOB_NAME } from '../jobs/trigger_rule'
+import {
+  UpdateLabelsInLibraryItemData,
+  UPDATE_LABELS_IN_LIBRARY_ITEM_JOB,
+} from '../jobs/update_db'
 import { getBackendQueue } from '../queue-processor'
 import { redisDataSource } from '../redis_data_source'
 import { signFeatureToken } from '../services/features'
@@ -660,4 +664,17 @@ export const enqueueTriggerRuleJob = async (data: TriggerRuleJobData) => {
   })
 }
 
+export const enqueueUpdateLabelsInLibraryItem = async (
+  data: UpdateLabelsInLibraryItemData
+) => {
+  const queue = await getBackendQueue()
+  if (!queue) {
+    return undefined
+  }
+
+  return queue.add(UPDATE_LABELS_IN_LIBRARY_ITEM_JOB, data, {
+    priority: 1,
+  })
+}
+
 export default createHttpTaskWithToken