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Pandemic Pressures in Universities and their Libraries: a View from Australia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2022

Kay Tucker  and
Becky Batagol
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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has heavily impacted Australian universities and their libraries but has been felt most strongly by students and staff who are already marginalised. This article, written by Kay Tucker and Becky Batagol, draws upon both published literature and the authors’ own experiences as a librarian and academic employed at Monash University, Australia's largest university. Important lessons from the pandemic for universities and university libraries at times of crisis and disaster include: actively recognising and responding to structural inequalities amongst students and staff; organising services so that all can participate to their fullest ability; providing students with opportunities for social connection, enhanced digital capabilities, safe and inclusive spaces and accessible materials; as well as flexible employment practices.

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universitiesuniversity librariesCOVID-19Australia
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Legal Information Management , Volume 21 , Issue 3-4 , December 2021 , pp. 129 - 145
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2022. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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We wish to thank our generous colleagues, Associate Professor Tom Clark, Lisa Smith, Professor Amy Cohen and Professor John Thwaites for their comments on an earlier draft of this article. Together, we are better.

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35 Monash University, Annual Report 2020 (Financial Resources, Management Division, Monash University 2021) 2.

36 ibid 4.

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46 Martin (n 31) 14.

47 Martin (n 31) 14; Takalani, Ravhuhali and Mapotso (n 10) 15195.

48 Dodd and others (n 45).

49 Blackmore (n 39) 1333.

50 Monash University, Annual Report 2020 (n 35) 3.

51 James Waghorne,’Australian University and Medical School Life During the 1919 Influenza Pandemic’ (2020) 49 History of Education Review 215, 215.

52 ibid 217.

53 ibid 216.

54 Edwin Creely and others, ‘University Teachers’ Well-being During a Pandemic: The Experiences of Five Academics’ (2021) Research Papers in Education <https://doi.org/10.1080/02671522.2021.1941214> accessed 15 October 2021.

55 Barnett (n 43) 811.

56 Kniest (n 5) 8, 15.

57 Littleton and Stanford (n 2) 3.

58 Angela R. Dobele, Sharyn Rundle-Thiele & Foula Kopanidis, ‘The Cracked Glass Ceiling: Equal Work but Unequal Status’ (2014) 33 Higher Education Research & Development 456.

59 Stuart Andrews and others, Contingent Academic Employment in Australian Universities (Australian Higher Education Industrial Association and the LH Martin Institute, Melbourne Graduate School of Education, The University of Melbourne 2016) 3.

60 Blackmore (n 39) 1334.

61 Marcia Devlin, ‘Time to Gender Parity has Blown Out to 135 years. Here's What Women Can do to Close the Gap’ (The Conversation, 2 June 2021) <https://theconversation.com/time-to-gender-parity-has-blown-out-to-135-years-heres-what-women-can-do-to-close-the-gap-160253> accessed 15 October 2021.

62 Kniest (n 5) 16.

63 ‘Australia's Gender Pay Gap Statistics’ (Workplace Gender Equality Agency, 27 August 2021) <www.wgea.gov.au/publications/australias-gender-pay-gap-statistics> accessed 15 October 2021.

64 Devlin (n 61); ‘Australia's Gender Pay Gap Statistics’ (n 63).

65 Universities Australia, Indigenous Strategy Annual Report (Universities Australia, March 2021) 48 <www.universitiesaustralia.edu.au/policy-submissions/diversity-equity/universities-australias-indigenous-strategy-2017-2020/> accessed 15 October 2021.

66 ibid 51.

67 ibid 53.

68 ‘Monash at a Glance’ (n 4).

69 Monash University, Workplace Gender Equity Strategy 2019-2022 (Staff Equity and Diversity, Monash University, 2019) <www.monash.edu/__data/assets/pdf_file/0007/2322871/Workplace-Gender-Equity-Strategy-2019-2022.pdf> accessed 15 October 2021.

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75 Kniest (n 5) 3.

76 Christopher Klopper and Bianca Power, ‘The Casual Approach to Teacher Education: What Effect Does Casualisation Have for Australian University Teaching?’ (2014) 39 Australian Journal of Teacher Education 101, 102. See also Kniest (n 5) 9.

77 Andrews and others (n 59) 7.

78 ibid 4.

79 Littleton and Stanford (n 2) 2–3.

80 Kniest (n 5) 11.

81 Littleton and Stanford (n 2) 1.

82 ibid 3.

83 ibid.

84 Monash University, Annual Report 2020 (n 35) 4; ‘Jobs Protection Framework’ (The National Tertiary Education Union) <https://www.nteu.org.au/covid-19/jobs_protection_framework> accessed 15 October 2021.

85 Monash University, Annual Report 2020 (n 35) 132.

86 Paul Karp, ‘Monash University to Cut 277 Jobs as Slump in International Students Bites’, The Guardian, 16 July 2020 <www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2020/jul/16/monash-university-to-cut-277-jobs-as-slump-in-international-students-bites> accessed 15 October 2021.

87 ibid.

88 Makala Skinner, Nicole Betancourt and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, The Disproportionate Impact of the Pandemic on Women and Caregivers in Academia (2021 ITHAKA S+R) 13 <https://sr.ithaka.org/publications/the-disproportionate-impact-of-the-pandemic-on-women-and-caregivers-in-academia/> accessed 15 October 2021.

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96 Giddings (n 92) 236.

97 ibid 246.

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100 ibid 1706.

101 Giuliana Viglione, ‘Are Women Publishing Less During The Pandemic? Here's What the Data Say’ (2020) 581 Nature, 28 May 2020, 365, 365.

102 Skinner, Betancourt and Wolff-Eisenberg (n 88) 6–7.

103 ibid 6.

104 ibid 8–9.

105 ibid 8.

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109 Emilee Gilbert and Carla Pascoe Leahy, ‘Visibilising Mothering in the Academy: (Re)Performing Academic Mothering in the Transformative Moment of COVID-19’ (2021) unpublished manuscript. See also Meredith Nash and Brendan Churchill, ‘Caring during COVID-19: A Gendered Analysis of Australian University Responses to Managing Remote Working and Caring Responsibilities’ (2020) 27 Gender Work and Organization 833, 841.

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111 Barnett (n 43) 812.

112 Skinner, Betancourt and Wolff-Eisenberg (n 88) 9–11; Viglione (n 101) 365.

113 Vineet Arora and others, ‘Leveling the Playing Field: Accounting for Academic Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic’ (2020) 16 Journal of Hospital Medicine 120, 120–1.

114 ibid 120.

115 Universities Australia, Indigenous Strategy Annual Report (n 65) 47.

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117 Chelsea Watego, ‘Always Bet on Black (Power): The Fight Against Race’ (2021) Spring, Meanjin 22, 28.

118 Onwuachi-Willig (n 99) 1705; Carol Liao, ‘On Race and Academia in the Time of COVID-19’ (2020) 25(4) Lex Electronica 120.

119 Fernanda Staniscuaski and others, ‘Gender, Race and Parenthood Impact Academic Productivity During the COVID-19 Pandemic: From Survey to Action’ (2021) 12(663252) Frontiers in Psychology 1, 7.

120 ibid 11.

121 Nash and Churchill (n 109) 842.

122 ibid 840.

123 ibid 841.

124 Viglione (n 101) 366; Staniscuaski and others (n 119) 11; Onwuachi-Willig (n 99) 1712.

125 Onwuachi-Willig (n 99) 1713.

126 Jessica Malisch and others, ‘In the Wake of COVID-19, Academia Needs New Solutions to Ensure Gender Equity,’ (2020) 117(27) Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS 15378.

127 Skinner, Betancourt and Wolff-Eisenberg (n 88) 13.

128 ibid 12; Henry T. Greely, ‘Pandemic Fairness and Academia’ (2020) 7 Journal of Law and the Biosciences 1, 3.

129 The Australian National University (ANU), MIT (US) and Oxford University (UK) all advised staff early in the pandemic that they would be paid normally even if they cannot work a full-time load due to caring responsibilities. The ANU advised ‘staff members will continue to be paid their full-time hours if they can work at least 70% of their work hours from home’: Nash and Churchill (n 109) 841.

130 Many US universities provided ‘crisis’ care for employees who were unable to access regular carers for dependents during the COVID-19 crisis. Yale University (US) staff were given access to a homework service for employees’ managing homeschooling, resources for helping children experiencing learning issues, behavioural issues and developmental disabilities and access to meal deliveries: Nash and Churchill (n 109) 841.

131 Onwuachi-Willig (n 99) 1712.

132 Staniscuaski and others (n 119) 11; Skinner, Betancourt and Wolff-Eisenberg (n 88) 12.

133 Skinner, Betancourt and Wolff-Eisenberg (n 88) 12.

134 Malisch and others (n 126) 15380.

135 Staniscuaski and others (n 119) 11; Arora and others (n 113) 122; Greely (n 128) 3; Malisch and others (n 126) 15380.

136 Staniscuaski and others (n 119) 11.

137 Arora and others (n 113) 121.

138 Premier of Victoria, The Hon Daniel Andrews, Statement from the Premier (30 March 2020) <www.premier.vic.gov.au/atement-premier > accessed 15 October 2021.

139 Thomas Sneed, ‘The Effect of COVID-19 on Law Libraries: Are These Changes Temporary or a Sign of the Future?’ (2020) 60 Washburn Law Journal 107,109.

140 Alexis Vassiley, ‘Universities are Cutting Hundreds of Jobs – They, and the Government, Can Do Better’ (The Conversation, 16 July, 2020) <https://theconversation.com/universities-are-cutting-hundreds-of-jobs-they-and-the-government-can-do-better-142824> accessed 15 October 2021.

141 Sneed (n 139); Peter Kargbo, ‘Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown: a Case Study’ (2020) 20 Legal Information Management 227; Muhummad Rafiq and others, ‘University Libraries Response to COVID-19 Pandemic: A Developing Country Perspective (2021) 47 The Journal of Academic Librarianship 1.

142 Sneed (n 139) 110.

143 Jennifer K. Frederick and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg, Academic Library Strategy and Budgeting During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Results from the Ithaka S+R US Library Survey 2020 (Research Report, December 9, 2020) 14.

144 Robert Neate, Zoom Apologises After Partial Global Outage (The Guardian, 25 August 2020) <https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/aug/24/zoom-apologises-after-being-hit-by-partial-global-outage> accessed 15 October 2021.

145 Konstantina Martzoukou, ‘Academic Libraries in COVID-19: a Renewed Mission for Digital Literacy’ (2021) 42 Library Management 266, 274.

146 Council of Australian University Librarians, Position Statement on Digital Dexterity <www.caul.edu.au/sites/default/files/documents/digital-dexterity/digitaldexterity2019position.pdf> accessed 15 October 2021.

147 Martin (n 31) 14.

148 Martzoukou (n 145) 269.

149 Martin (n 31) 2.

150 Kargbo (n 141).

151 Martzoukou (n 145) 272.

152 Australian Library and Information Association, Australian Libraries Responding to COVID-19: Checklist for Reopening Libraries (1 May 2020) <https://read.alia.org.au/australian-libraries-responding-covid-19-checklist-reopening-libraries> accessed 15 October 2021; Council of Australian University Libraries, ANZ University Libraries Take Innovative Steps to Enhance Services While Combating the Spread of COVID-19 (1 April 2020) <www.caul.edu.au/news/anz-university-libraries-take-innovative-steps-enhance-services-while-combating-spread-covid-19> accessed 15 October 2021.

153 Dana Neacsu and James M. Donovan, ‘Academic Law Libraries and Scholarship: Communication, Publishing, and Ranking’ (2020) 49 Journal of Law and Education 433, 435.

154 Christopher Cox,’ Academic Libraries will Change in Significant Ways as a Result of the Pandemic (Opinion)’ (Inside Higher Education, 5 June 2020) <www.insidehighered.com/views/2020/06/05/academic-libraries-will-change-significant-ways-result-pandemic-opinion> accessed 15 October 2021.

155 John Botherway, ‘Changing Times: High Court of Australia Library During COVID-19’ (2021) 42 Library Management 261, 263.

156 AustLII, <www.austlii.edu.au/> accessed 15 October 2021.

157 Anna Fazackerley, ‘Price Gouging from Covid’: Student ebooks Costing up to 500% More than in Print (The Guardian, 29 January 2021) <www.theguardian.com/education/2021/jan/29/price-gouging-from-covid-student-ebooks-costing-up-to-500-more-than-in-print> accessed 15 October 2021.

158 Kargbo (n 141); Council of Australian Law Deans, Call to all Legal Publishers to Assist Law Schools during COVID-19 (CALD, 23 April 2020) <https://cald.asn.au/blog/2020/04/23/call-to-all-legal-publishers-to-assist-law-schools-during-covid-19/> accessed 15 October 2021; IARLA Statement on Access to Digital Content for Education and Research During the Period of COVID-19 Response (IARLA, 21 April 2020) <https://iarla.org/2020/04/statement-access-digital-content/> accessed 15 October 2021.

159 See, for example: AustLII Communities <https://austlii.community/foswiki/Books/WebHome> accessed 15 October 2021; Ian Freckleton, Administrative Decision-Making in Australian Migration Law (ANU Press 2015) <http://doi.org/10.22459/ADAML.05.2015 > accessed 15 October 2021; Wikijuris <https://wikijuris.net/> accessed 15 October 2021.

160 ‘Key Findings: Social Justice Relating to Cost and Contents of Textbooks Matter to Students and Staff’ (Deakin University, 10 February 2021) <https://australianopentextbooks.edu.au/2021/02/10/key-findings-social-justice-relating-to-cost-and-contents-of-textbooks-matter-to-students-and-staff/> accessed 15 October 2021.

161 Cailyn Nagle and Kaitlyn Vitez, Fixing the Broken Textbook Market (3rd ed, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, 20 February 2021) <https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/Fixing%20the%20Broken%20Textbook%20Market%2C%203e%20February%202021.pdf> accessed 15 October 2021.

162 Martzoukou (n 145) 270–1.

163 Council of Australian University Librarians, Enabling a Modern Curriculum (CAUL, 6 August 2021) <www.caul.edu.au/programs-projects/enabling-modern-curriculum> accessed 15 October 2021; Council of Australian University Libraries, Advancing Open Scholarship (CAUL, 13 October 2021) < https://www.caul.edu.au/programs-projects/advancing-open-scholarship-fair> accessed 15 October 2021.

164 Waghorne (n 51) 224.