Sustainable Online Library Services and Resources

Learning from the Pandemic

Mou Chakraborty, Samantha Harlow, Heather Moorefield-Lang, Mou Chakraborty, Samantha Harlow, Heather Moorefield-Lang

• Publisher: Libraries Unlimited
• Year: 2022
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781440879265
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

COVID-19 shifted library services and resources; this book includes narratives of lessons learned and sustainable practices to prepare educators and librarians for any challenges that might arise in the future. All different types of libraries (academic, public, special, and school) were impacted by the pandemic, and librarians learned valuable lessons about how to shift and transition in a challenging time. In this informative book, librarians, instructional designers, educators, and faculty from all over the world write about how they pivoted services and resources online to continue to serve patrons during a pandemic and beyond, as well as which services and programs will be sustainable and scalable. Online delivery of programs and services allows librarians to respond to many different situations, emergencies, and challenges, and this book is a record of the lessons that librarians learned and the practices they'll implement in the future based on their experiences with COVID-19. Sustainable Online Library Services and Resources showcases a diverse range of perspectives on how online learning has changed and grown with a focus on what library services and resources are here to stay.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Building the Train as We Chug Along the Tracks: A Reimagined Staff Training Model
• Chapter 2. Chatting into the Void: Scaling and Assessing Chat Reference Services for Effectiveness
• Chapter 3. Converting In-Person Library Instruction for an Introductory Communication Studies Course into an Online Asynchronous Module: One Team’s Experiences
• Chapter 4. Data: How Do You Drink from a Waterfall
• Chapter 5. Exploring the Feasibility of a Hybrid Approach to a Post-pandemic Information Literacy Lesson
• Chapter 6. Finding New Ways to Support Social Connections for Older Adults: Rural Public Libraries Innovate during the Pandemic
• Chapter 7. Keeping Instruction Sustainable Post-COVID-19 with a Learning Objects Repository
• Chapter 8. Keeping the Focus on Patrons at the Salisbury University Libraries
• Chapter 9. Library Workers’ Well-Being during a Pandemic
• Chapter 10. Maintaining Comics and Gaming Programming during Institutional Change
• Chapter 11. Other Duties (and Places) as Assigned: How Analog Approaches Are Impeding Progress in Online Librarianship
• Chapter 12. Retooling the Academic Librarian Hiring Process
• Chapter 13. The Archive Is Temporarily Closed: Teaching Students Alternative Methods for Finding Archival Materials Online
• Chapter 14. The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Hiring and Onboarding in Academic Libraries
• Chapter 15. The Virtual Graduate Research Marathon: Remote Library Instruction for Doctoral Candidates
• Chapter 16. Leverage from the Lockdown: Transitioning Information Literacy Instruction during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Case Study
• About the Editors and Contributors
• Index