Out Now: March 2022 issue of IFLA Journal

IFLA Journal. March 2022 [Special Issue: Libraries and COVID-19: Opportunities for innovation]

The IFLA Journal Special Issue on COVID-19 explores how the pandemic brought about innovation in libraries. Guest edited by IFLA Journal editorial board member Milena Dobreva from Sofia University, Bulgaria and Hermina Anghelescu from Wayne State University, USA, the journal includes 18 articles th...

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Contents:

Editorial

Libraries and COVID-19: Opportunities for innovation 3
Milena Dobreva and Hermina Anghelescu

Case Study

Challenges and opportunities for parliamentary libraries during COVID-19: A case study of the National Assembly of Quebec Library 9
Carolyne Ménard

Original Articles

Remembering COVID-19; or, a duty to document the coronavirus pandemic 20
Marc Kosciejew

Onboarding in the age of COVID-19 33
Andrew R. Carlos and Daisy C. Muralles

School library media specialists: An evolving profession in a pandemic 41
Heather Kapanka

Case Studies

Exploring National Library of Scotland datasets with Jupyter Notebooks 50
Sarah Ames and Lucy Havens

The development of LibGuides at Cape Peninsula University of Technology Libraries and the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on their usage 57
Deborah A. Becker, Joanne Arendse, Veliswa Tshetsha, Zulaiga Davids and Vuyokazi Kiva-Johnson

Cooking up engagement during a pandemic: The international Great Rare Books Bake Off between the Penn State and Monash University Libraries 69
Christina Riehman-Murphy, Anne Holloway and Mark Mattson

Original Articles

Expanding digital academic library and archive services at the University of Calgary in response to the COVID-19 pandemic 83
James E. Murphy, Carla J. Lewis, Christena A. McKillop and Marc Stoeckle

Continuity during COVID: Critical digital pedagogy and special collections virtual instruction 99
Amanda Boczar and Sydney Jordan

The experiences of the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina’s Library Working Group on COVID-19 Prevention 112
Guilherme Goulart Righetto, Tatiana Rossi and Juliane Fonseca Soares

Dissemination of information in the COVID-19 era in university libraries in Nigeria 126
Saturday U. Omeluzor, Angela Ewhonne Nwaomah, Ugochi Esther Molokwu and Atanda Saliu Sambo

‘The challenge now is for us to remain relevant’: Australian public libraries and the COVID-19 crisis 138
Simon Wakeling, Jane Garner, Philip Hider, Hamid Jamali, Jessie Lymn, Yazdan Mansourian and Holly Randell-Moon

Reimagining public library programming during a pandemic 155
Noah Lenstra and Christine D’Arpa

Review Article

Practices and thinking of public libraries in China during COVID-19 161
Zhou Xin

Original Articles

Public libraries’ responses to a global pandemic: Bangladesh perspectives 174
Dilara Begum, Md Roknuzzaman and Mahbub E. Shobhanee

Prevalence and source analysis of COVID-19 misinformation in 138 countries 189
Md. Sayeed Al-Zaman

How older adults in the USA and India seek information during the COVID-19 pandemic: A comparative study of information behavior 205
Brady D. Lund and Sanjay Kumar Maurya

COVID-19 information seeking and utilization among library and information science professionals in Nigeria 216
Esharenana E. Adomi and Gloria O. Oyovwe-Tinuoye

Abstracts 228

Corrigendum

Corrigendum to ‘‘Editorial: Special Issue: Indigenous Librarianship’’ 260

IFLA Journal is an international journal publishing peer reviewed articles on library and information services and the social, political and economic issues that impact access to information through libraries. The Journal publishes research, case studies and essays that reflect the broad spectrum of the profession internationally. IFLA Journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

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