Darren Flynn (he/him/his)

@patchedelbows.bsky.social

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Lecturer in Library and Information Studies at UCL. PhD student researching social class in the academic library workforce. Co-organiser of Critical Approaches to Libraries Conference (CALC) and member of Fair Library Jobs.

Photo from LILAC2016 showing Darren looking back and smiling at the camera. Nigel Morgan and Sam Aston in the foreground.

Image from CILIP website showing a patron(?) and librarian(?). Librarian is taking notes with one hand while also holding a second pen in the other.

Photograph of Jess, Darren, Laura and Maria from Darren's wedding reception.

Photograph of Darren and Quinn just after exchanging vows at their wedding

Sketchnotes from Rodney E. Freeman Jr's keynote talk May Day! at #CALC26

Photo of Darren with his cat Terrence sat on his knee

Snip from original image showing Brainiac (?) and Lex Luther (?) looking cunty

Game cover of Baldur's Gate (1998)

Snip showing a pie chart showing (a pointless) gender split of 13% male and 87% female.

Screenshot from the Guardian showing a recipe for "Rachel Roddy's mini babas al rum". The photograph shows mini rum babas that look rather rude, 🍆

Photo of a card on a buffet reading "Vegan sausage roll with traditional dips"

Photo of Darren in front of a Kylie Tension tour poster.

Screenshot from The Matrix (1999) showing Neo waking from the weird human battery pod thing, and looking at more weird human battery pod things.

Photograph of shop sign in St. Ives reading "Gullz R Loud".

Photo of Darren's garden and cat in the morning light. Photo shows a jungle style city garden.

Photo of slide from Richard's findings. Titles "Types of information about the body" and lists a range of information types.

Video showing Darren working while his cat Terrance stares down at him from the tallboy next to him.

Photograph of Darren's garden, morning of March 20th.

Photo of a monstera standing in a dish of clay pellets and water.

Screenshot of wrapping paper with walruses on it.

Photograph of a bed with a grey cardigan and Terrance, a grey and white cat, specifically laying down on the cardigan and not the rest of the bed.

Photograph of Darren's garden with a light dusting of snow, November 2024.

Cover art of Sega Genesis 'Ecco the Dolphin' showing the titular dolphin jumping out of the ocean.

Snip showing a demographics table from a journal article. The key point is that the table is formatted without lines which (to me) make it difficult to read the label and corresponding figures.

UK tourist attraction road sign. Reads "Secret Bunker Turn right 180 yds ahead".

Photograph of an acer in the church yard of St Andrew's Church, Rugby Warwickshire. It's showing glorious deep red autumn foliage. In the background is the church, a neo gothic church.

Photograph of the book Rivals by Jilly Cooper on a side table next to a half drunk glass of red wine.

Zoomed in image of UK dialect map showing Potteries dialect amongst many other Midlands and North West dialects.

Photo of a to-do list produced by The Kind Brave Leader

Photograph of Terrance, a grey and white cat, reclining on 4 cushions on a bench.

Photograph of Draycote Water, a reservoir in Warwickshire. It's a nice September day with blue skies and clouds.

Snip from the acknowledgements in Beth Montague-Hellen's Practical Tips for EDI in Libraries. Names listed include: Caroline Ball, Harry Batholomew, Michelle Bond, david Brown, Elizabeth Chapman, Jo Cornish, Anthony David Jr, Kirsten Elliott, Joanne Fitzpatrick, Darren Flynn, Kirsty Lingstaft, Keither Nockles, Harriet Notman, Anna Pelekanou, Holly Ranger, Emma Sansby, Joshua Sendall and Deborah Verenna.