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Eleanor is a tertiary Librarian living, working, and learning in Melbourne/Naarm. They are interested in researcher development, integrating library services in the research lifecycle, the role of cross-boundary professionals in tertiary institutions, and library advocacy.
Key Topics
- What would happen if librarians disappeared? Eleanor’s thoughts on library advocacy
- How Eleanor works across boundaries to create supportive conversations in the highly siloed world of academia
- How over-administration and the paradigms of funding and performance measurement often discourage curiosity in academia and impact people in the profession
- How Eleanor uses care and criticism to navigate a love-hate relationship with their profession
Detours and Tangents
- How critical cataloguing tries to undo the harms caused by the Dewey Decimal system
- Eleanor’s love of film and their role as artistic director for Czech and Slovak Film Festival Australia (CASFFA)
- Why Eleanor doesn’t engage with the concept of ‘heroes’ and why you don’t always have to know your mentors
Episode Summary
Visit the Grokkist podcast hub for a full digest of this episode including highlights and links to stuff we discussed: https://grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast/s1e3-eleanor-colla/
Recorded 27 September 2021
Website: grokk.ist/stillcuriouspodcast | Email: [email protected] | Socials: @grokkist
Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon
Chapters
1. Introduction (00:00:00)
2. Meet Eleanor (00:02:04)
3. Crossing boundaries and curiosity in the academy (00:17:05)
4. Formal education, film and life lessons (00:29:02)
5. How academics get lost in the system (00:46:59)
6. The love in a love/hate relationship (00:54:41)
7. Imagining an ethic of care in higher education (01:05:28)
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