Introducing the Creative Library Project

Welcome to the Creative Library, a collaborative project between the Students' Union Officers and the University Library at the University of Sheffield. We are co-producing, co-delivering and co-evaluating a series of library based creative workshops. Our workshops involve a range of creative methods, including collage, poetry, stitch-craft, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, 3D printing, life and creative writing, music, zines and podcasts. Many of our workshops align with liberation priorities of our students, organised for example to coincide with Black History Month, Disability History Month,  Reclaim the Night events and LGBT+ History Month. Our study is reflecting on the potential of  information creation as a process and we are adopting a pedagogy of joyful hope to enable our ambition to make the library an inclusive site of transformative learning. Based at the University of Sheffield, UK, we have been funded by the Participatory Research Network, IATUL, the International Association of University Libraries and the AHRC-RLUK Professional Practice Fellowship Scheme. Vicky Grant, Head of Library Learning and Teaching, has been appointed as an AHRC-RLUK Fellow to lead this work. 

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