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Zapopan Muela This is Broomhall, Sheffield, UK A Critical, Class & Qualitative Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers Zapopan Muela ii This is Broomhall, Sheffield, UK A Critical, Class & Qualitative Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers By: Zapopan Muela Copyright © 2016 Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza All rights reserved. ISBN: 149595546X ISBN-13: 978-1495955464 Published by first time on 18 December 2016 Cover photographs of collage Copyright © 2016 by Zapopan Martín Muela-Meza, taken in Broomhall, Sheffield, UK by the author during 2005 and 2007, girl models of the photographs: the daughters of the author who accompanied him during his PhD studies in Broomhall, Sheffield: Carolina Muela (older) and Paulina Muela (younger). Cover design: special thanks to Francisco Ramiro Ruiz Medina who did the Photoshop of the cover. Also thanks to Eduardo Alejandro Diaz Ochoa, Maximiliano Diaz Ochoa, and Hector Salazar Hernandez for pixeling cover picture collage. DEDICATION This book is dedicated to my parents, In Memoriam to my mother, Celia Montserrat Meza León (1943-2011), my beloved “gypsy” who happily was alive when she saw my PhD thesis magnum opus finished and my PhD degree conferred. It is edited on the 24th February 2016 as homage to the 73th anniversary of my mother the Gypsy Echincuele Montserrat poetess. and In Memoriam to my father, Everardo Muela Caballero (1938-2004), my beloved and immortal “open book” and “mark of fire” whose material body did not resist to be alive to see my PhD lifetime goal accomplished before it transformed and melted into another cosmic forms. To my daughters, Carolina Muela and Paulina Muela, whose love, friendship, and early character has been an inexhaustible source of motivation. and This is also especially dedicated with all of my love to mi fiancé Beatriz Adriana Ruiz Medina, who since 9 March 2013 has loved me and supported me like no other woman in the past. This is Broomhall, Sheffield, UK! A Critical, Class & Qualitative Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers “But ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity’s deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.” — Stephen Hawking (1988: 13) “The library connects us with the insights and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all of our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species. Public libraries depend on voluntary contributions. I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries.” –Carl Sagan, Cosmos (Sagan, 2001: 282) “Twenty-one months I had the opportunity to become acquainted with the English proletariat, its strivings, its sorrows and its joys, to see them from near, from personal observation and personal intercourse, and at the same time to supplement my observations by recourse to the requisite authentic sources. What I have seen, heard and read has been worked up in the present book. I am prepared to see not only my standpoint attacked in many quarters but also the facts I have cited, particularly when the book gets into the hands of the English. I know equally well that here and there I may be proved wrong in some particular of no importance, something that in view of the comprehensive nature of the subject and its far-reaching assumptions even an Englishman might be unable to avoid; so much the more so since even in England there exists as yet not a single piece of writing which, like mine, takes up all the workers. But without a moment's hesitation I challenge the English bourgeoisie to prove that even in a single instance of any consequence for the exposition of my point of view as a whole I have been guilty of any inaccuracy, and to prove it by data as authentic as mine. — Friedrich Engels The Condition of the Working Class in England (Engels, [1845], 2000) “Community / for Broomhall Poem by Shirley Cameron Community you and me a space / a time / where we live a type of living a timeless yearning for unity from indifference to love of your difference as you sense mine so we can be known here feel at home here see and be seen and somehow be a community” (Broomspring Writers Group, 2002: 158) "Wickerman" “Just behind the station before you reach the traffic island a river runs though a concrete channel I took you there once; I think it was after the Leadmill v Zapopan Muela The water was dirty and it smelt of industrialisation Little mesters coughing their lungs up And globules the colour of tomato ketchup But it flows Yeah, it flows Yeah, underneath the city through dirty brickwork conduits connecting white witches on the Moor with Pre-Raphaelites down in Broomhall Beneath the old Trebor factory that burnt down in the early seventies Leaving an antiquated sweet-shop smell and caverns of nougat and caramel Nougat Yeah, nougat and caramel And the river flows on…” The Wickerman, — The Pulp (Cocker, 2012) vi This is Broomhall, Sheffield, UK! A Critical, Class & Qualitative Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs, and Providers PRESENTATION The author of this book, This is Broomhall, Sheffield, UK: A Critical, Class & Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs and Provision, Dr. Zapopan Muela (MEXICO), obtained his PhD Degree at the University of Sheffield (UK, 2010). This book is the authentic monographic format of the author’s PhD thesis entitled: Community Profiling to Analyse Community Information Needs and Provision: Perceptions from the Residents of Broomhall, Sheffield, UK, that you can download it full text and free of charge through his E-LIS and UANL open access self archiving repositories, or a pay-per-access through The British Library, with Document Supply DRT 527209, UIN: BLL01015935892, or through The University of Sheffield Library, with Record ID: 21176803160001441. It is published as monograph too in order to reach out those readers who prefer this format. Zapopan Muela, San Nicolas de los Garza, Nuevo Leon, Mexico, 18 December 2016. vii CONTENTS Dedication iii Presentation Vi List of tables viii List of figures Ix List of acronyms X Spanish-English translation note Xi 1. Introduction 1 2. Methodology 7 3. Review of the literature 52 4. Historical and demographic background of the Broomhall neighbourhood 69 5. Analysis and discussion of findings. Perceptions of the issues and features of 101 Broomhall, information needs, and provision 6. Conclusions and recommendations 145 7. Further research 153 Bibliography 157 Appendices 179 About the author 191 List of tables Table 2.1 Conceptual scheme and its operationalization 9 Table 2.2 Libraries employed to review documental information for this thesis (2003-2007) 27 Table 2.3 Databases used to search documental information for this thesis 27 Table 2.4 Database fields of the working Broomhall directory of respondents 34 Table 2.5 Identification codes for interviewees 36 Table 2.6 General profile of all the interviewees (32 respondents in total) 36 Table 2.7 Profile of the individual interviewees. Long time neighbourhood residents (10 36 respondents) Table 2.8 Profile of the individual interviewees. Information providers (8 participants) 38 Table 2.9 Profile of focus groups interviewees. Long time neighbourhood residents (3 focus 39 groups with 14 participants) Table 4.1 Density of dwellings per ground area in square meters of Section A (the Hanover 75 Estates) Table 4.2 Density of dwellings per ground area in square meters of the Broomspring Estate 75 of Section B Table 4.3 Density of dwellings per ground area in square meters of Section C 76 Table 4.4 Density of dwellings per ground area in square meters of Section D 76 Table 4.5 Incompatibilities amongst census Super Output Areas (SOA) or Enumeral 77 Districts (EDs) levels and sections, A, B, C & D of Broomhall Table 4.6. Comparative ground areas in square metres of the ex YMCA property on 107 Broomhall Road and the Hanover Flats (section A) Table 4.7 Broomhall Index and Domain Scores from 2001 census 94 Table 4.8 Broomhall 2001 Census Key Statistics compared with Sheffield 96 Table 5.1 Negative issues of Broomhall 102 Table 5.2 Positive (or less negative, controversial, and adverse) features of Broomhall 105 Table 5.3 Information provision through the letter boxes of Broomhall homes (at least in 107 section C), from 16 September 2006 to 16 March 2007 Table 5.4 Community and voluntary sector documents collected at information providers’ 110 premises Table 5.5 Statutory sector (central government) documents collected at information 110 providers’ premises Table 5.6 Statutory sector (Sheffield City Council) documents collected at information 111 providers’ premises Table 5.7 Documents from the private sector collected at information providers’ premises 111 Table 5.8 Comparison of information providers’ documents about their own organisation 112 displayed at their premises Table 5.9 Comparative ground areas in square metres of the ex YMCA properties on 128 Broomhall Road (section D) and ex St. Silas Church (section C) Zapopan Muela List of figures Figure 4.1 Broomhall street map 74 Figure 4.2 Actual satellite map of Broomhall circa 2004-2005 as emerged from the data of 74 this thesis Figure 4.3 Map of Broomhall circa 1849 and 1899 according to the Map of Derbyshire and 80 Yorkshire, 1st ed.