Academic Library COVID-19 Subject Guides

Fraser-Arnott, Melissa

doi:10.1080/02763877.2020.1862021

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“…These university libraries were temporarily closed along with higher education institutions [ 5 ]. Hence, the library staff tried to facilitate and provide online services to faculty and students during online academic activities [ 7 , 26 ]. The study finding is aligned with the study finding reported in several countries [ 13 , 18 , 110 , 111 ].…”

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Library services and facilities in higher education institutions during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Pakistan

Shoaib

Ali

Anwar

et al. 2022

Journal of Information Science

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This article attempts to evaluate the library services and facilities during the pandemic situations in Pakistan. This study is fashioned in positivistic tradition of quantitative research design, and a cross-sectional research method was employed. The objective of the study was to examine the library services available to students and faculty members in two public sector academic libraries in Pakistan. A complete list of students and faculty members was collected from the concerned offices along with their WhatsApp numbers and email address. A total of 1736 students and faculty members sampled through proportionate random sampling technique and filled the questionnaire out of 7835. The inclusion criteria to participate was based on enrolled students of public and private sector university, passed at least one semester of BS (4 years) and MA/MSc (2 years) programme in Pakistan, and faculty members using library resources. A structured questionnaire to measure the response of library patrons and consisted of exogenous and endogenous variables and pretested. The study findings showed that COVID-19 pandemic situations affected educational institutions at a large scale. The social distancing rule was opted to minimise the risk of infection and university libraries were also closed down. However, due to online learning transformation, library materials were digitalized and online library services were provided to students and faculty members.

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“…Due to pandemics, recent year witnessed a dramatic shift of academic libraries from traditional to modern resources and services in developing and developed countries [ 7 , 8 ]. It was a response to the pandemic lockdowns in the higher educational institutions (HEIs) including universities.…”

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Library services and facilities in higher education institutions during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Pakistan

Shoaib

Ali

Anwar

et al. 2022

Journal of Information Science

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“…Global issues such as the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change, and land degradation have attracted attention worldwide (Table 5). During the COVID-19 pandemic, 46 of the 50 websites of the world's top universities contained dedicated coronavirus resource pages [1]. Issues are also being responded to at the national level.…”

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“…This painful COVID-19 pandemic has taught many valuable lessons, among them the role of factual and rapid knowledge-sharing. Millions of informal and formal documents such as scientific and non-scientific articles, blogs, and commentaries have been generated, along with the dissemination of numerous myths, incorrect data, unverified or speculative information, and personal tweets [1].…”

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A Review of Documentation: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

Amiraslani

Dragovich

2022

World

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Documents are tools of communication which are changing rapidly in nature and quantity. Prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic, digital formats have become ubiquitous. However, documents and documentation have a long pre-digital history. In seeking to survey document types and features, two major online journal databases from the Web of Science database were analysed over a 30-year period to 2020. Documents were classified into types and the (arbitrary) features of format, dimension, production, administration and distribution. Such tabulation of journal documents has not been undertaken previously. As the sampled journals covered a range of fields, the types and features of documentation in selected specialised areas were included. Digitalisation of documentation, especially of rare documents, has accelerated in recent times, contributing to the retention of knowledge and its rapid dissemination, despite the accompanying disadvantages of the digital age, with its largely unregulated social media. Classifying and describing the diversity of existing documents is a major task and we have initiated this process by analysing two scientific databases.

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“…This political binary was further exacerbated along racial and class lines. In response, American librarians responded by creating and sharing various resources such as library guides(LibGuides) in order to combat the disinformation that preyed upon consumers of digital information with low health and data literacy (Fraser-Arnott, 2020). These resources were intended to provide general information on COVID-19 (i.e.…”

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Caring for Our People: Indigenous Responses to Covid-19 Era Informatic Colonialism

Duarte

George

Deschine-Parkhurst

et al. 2021

SPIR

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Based on qualitative and quantitative analyses, activist work and HCI approaches, these papers show how organizations formed partnerships to curate information resources, and deploy community Wi-Fi and Internet infrastructure across southwest US Indigenous communities during the most challenging months of the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic. For Native Americans this means ideating while navigating colonial inequality. Through an investigation of sociotechnical interdependencies across a broadband network cooperative, tribes, and university labs, an HCI team reflects on how relational stability sustains fragile Internet ecologies stretched to capacity by the needs of users deeply affected by COVID-19 in New Mexico and Arizona. Through an autoethnography of community-centered digital solutions for Navajo Nation, a member of the Nation considers how the role of K’é informs a system of infrastructural care in a nation struggling with high rates of infection and systemic lack of adequate infrastructure. Through an advocacy-oriented analysis of social media content, a Diné and Lakota social media scholar discerns the relationship between community enforcement of social distancing, the loss of interpersonal interaction, mutual aid, and the impact of public health memes for the Navajo Nation. Through radical librarianship practices, a Tohono O’odham librarian and artist counteracts the values of ‘information neutrality’ shaping whiteness-centering American librarianship by generating a community-curated solution to actionable information about COVID-19 for Indigenous communities. This panel models decolonial liberation rooted in responsiveness across mediated layers of Indigenous belonging. The authors express Indigenous interpretations of collective autonomy vis-a-vis strategic Internet assemblages, and particularly, how an Indigenous ethics of care intersects with the dream of an Internet for social good.

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Academic Library COVID-19 Subject Guides

Cited by 20 publications

References 42 publications

Library services and facilities in higher education institutions during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Pakistan

Library services and facilities in higher education institutions during coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Pakistan

A Review of Documentation: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective

Caring for Our People: Indigenous Responses to Covid-19 Era Informatic Colonialism

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