Academic Library Services and Safety Measures in Pandemic Era: New Normal
Author(s): Dr. Mamatha N.
Abstract - The purpose of writing this article is to create the awareness among the professionals who preferred to serve their users during the period of covid-19 pandemic and to discuss the issues and challenges they have faced while confronting the tough situation and new techniques they used to beat the pandemic situation. Libraries are storehouses of information that support decision making in society. The COVID-19 pandemic shook the foundations of the operations of libraries. This paper aims to share the activities of library services in the new-normal era. Looking through the lens of the pandemic, the attention of librarians is drawn to the need for hygiene, cleaning and disinfecting during the new-normal era. It is seen in the past, a lot of services were being provided by them- either in manual mode or online in the digital era but Covid- 19 disease has completely changed the scenario. It is not sure how long it will take time to become normal and as per WHO and other sources, we have to live with it for a long time. So, it is expected that academic libraries will also have to reform their services and environment to provide services in the post Covid-19 environment. This paper suggests some measures that can be fruitful to cope with the effect of Covid-19 and to sustain the libraries in post Covid-19 era.
Keywords - COVID-19, Academic libraries, Library Services, Pandemic, Social Distancing and The New Normal.
DOI URL: https://doi.org/10.26761/ijrls.8.1.2022.1498
Cite This Article As: Mamatha, N. (2022). Academic Library Services and Safety Measures in Pandemic Era: New Normal. International Journal of Research in Library Science (IJRLS), 8(1) 77-82. www.ijrls.in
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Paper ID: IJRLS-1498 Page: 77-82 Publication Date: 27 January 2022