Sub Themes
1. Development: Physical and Human Resource
Providing skills required to transform process and service delivery while upgrading facilities and infrastructure.
2. Services: Library service through a post-COVID lens
During the pandemic, libraries met the challenges of adapting services even when their physical doors were closed. Now that libraries across the country are reopening, they face new challenges and see fresh opportunities to serve their communities
3. Technology: Libraries and COVID-19: Opportunities for innovation
When the COVID-19 pandemic started back in 2019, the library and information sectors had to adapt and went through several phases, the most typical being closure, reopening and adaptation to the ‘new normal’
4. Inclusivity: Online Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed online learning, blended or hybrid provision as the ‘new normal’ in libraries. For most libraries, especially those lacking in online presence, the pandemic has caused numerous challenges. However, it has also been a catalyst for change and resifting of priorities. For librarians involved in the delivery of information skills/literacy training, a renewed mission is emerging, addressing access and connectivity to resources, designing for online education and fostering the development of digital literacy of library users.
5. Open Access: Toward a Post-Covid World of Open Access
The global scale of the current pandemic has led to what feels like a remarkably unprecedented level of solidarity in a world pulling together (while standing apart) amid this common cause of fighting the spread of Covid-19. In the area of scholarly communication, publishers have been not only creating public access to Covid-19 collections of research and professional resources.