‘They burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why’: stories at the intersection of social class, capital and critical information literacy
Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC), Thursday 25 May 2023
Teresa Crew, Bangor University
Darren Flynn, University of Northampton
Rosie Hare, Jisc
Andrew Preater, Goldsmiths, University of London
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Introduction to our authors
Teresa Crew
Darren Flynn
Rosie Hare
Krishna Maroo (not speaking today)
Andrew Preater
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What we’ll do today
Introduction to our research project – 8 mins
Speaker presentations – 32 mins max
Audience discussion, Q&A – 20 mins
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Introduction to our research project
What brought us together to write
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Introduction to our research project
What brought us together to write
This was necessary due to gaps in the literature
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Introduction to our research project
What brought us together to write
This was necessary due to gaps in the literature
Our method: collaborative autoethnography
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Introduction to our research project
What brought us together to write
This was necessary due to gaps in the literature
Our method, collaborative autoethnography
How we relate social class to critical information literacy
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Introduction to our research project
Recognise class inequalities
Challenge stereotypes
Show solidarity to others
Reach out to likeminded library workers
Remember the capital you bring to librarianship
(modified from Crew, 2020 pp.135-139)
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Teresa
Main Arts Library, Bangor University
Llall
Llandudno Library (Up)
Gladstone Library, Harwarden (Down)
Runcorn Library.
Darren
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Darren
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Darren
Rosie
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Thornaby Central Library
Rosie, Teesside University Library
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Rosie, Teesside University Library
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Andrew (1) Torridon Road Library, Lewisham
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Andrew (2) Edward Boyle Library, University of Leeds
John Maltby, 1975
Martin Charles, 1981
Martin Charles, 1981
Andrew (3) Brotherton Library, University of Leeds & Senate House Library, University of London
(Left image) Cavie78 (2014), license CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brotherton_Library_reading_room,_University_of_Leeds,_27th_June_2014.jpg
Andrew (4) Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
(Right image) Diliff (2015), license CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Duke_Humfrey%27s_Library_Interior_3,_Bodleian_Library,_Oxford,_UK_-_Diliff.jpg
Conclusions
“But what can I do?” – more than you can imagine
What does this mean for your Critical Librarianship?
Remember the capital you bring to librarianship (modified from Crew, 2020 p.138)
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References
Chang, H., Ngunjiri, F.W. & Hernandez, K.-A.C. (2013). Collaborative autoethnography. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315432137
Cocker, J. Banks, N., Mackey, S., Senior, R. & Doyle, C. (1995). Common people [song recorded by Pulp]. On Different class. Island Records.
Crew, T. (2020). Higher education and working-class academics: precarity and diversity in academia. Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58352-1
Flynn et al. (2023) ‘They burn so bright whilst you can only wonder why’ : stories at the intersection of social class, capital and critical information literacy – a collaborative autoethnography [FIXME finalise this citation]
Yosso, T.J. (2005). Whose culture has capital? A critical race theory discussion of community cultural wealth. Race Ethnicity and Education, 8(1), 69-91. https://doi.org/10.1080/1361332052000341006
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