A love-hate relationship with my profession - Eleanor Colla | S1E3

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

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Music: Kleptotonic Swing by Tri-Tachyon