09.EALC - 2021

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    COVID-19 IMPACT ON INFORMATION ORGANIZATION: DELIVERING INFORMATION AND LIBRARY SERVICES DURING A PANDEMIC [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Moyo, Lesley
    The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound and far-reaching impact on how we live and work all over the world. The year 2020 and the first part of 2021 were characterized with fear, uncertainty, and rapid change as society took shelter from the menacing pandemic. Yet, during the same time, we witnessed unprecedented transformation as various businesses and enterprises reinvented themselves to combat not only the deadly effects of the pandemic, but also the disruption it was causing in all sectors of life. Within higher education, libraries featured prominently among units rethinking their operations to effectively support the continuity of research, teaching, and learning in their respective institutions. As a result, creative ways of organizing, accessing, and delivering services and information despite the constraints of the pandemic emerged. We saw the birth of curbside services, the enhancement of electronic access to collections, the increase of digitization on demand, and the emphasis of virtual library services such as chat reference and online library classes...
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    COVID-19: IMPACTS ON INFORMATION ORGANIZATION, TRANSMISSION AND USE [ARTICLE]
    (Nazarbayev University Library, 2021-06) Abruzzi, Raymond
    The ways in which scholarly research outputs have been organized and disseminated have undergone some complete changes in the last decade, notably through the expansion of open access and the increased availability of such information outside of existing publishing channels. The crises related to COVID-19 and the demand for critical data and research findings needed to inform medical responses and public health and public policy decisions have increased the speed with which information has traveled along more traditional paths. However, they also resulted in a substantial shift to new paradigms of information organization and sharing, as well as some improvement in international collaborations. This shift is not entirely new. Researchers tackling the challenges of earlier health crises (e.g., those engaged with mitigating the health impacts of the 1918 Influenza) have called for changes in the way information is organized and shared, as well as for greater collaboration among nations and institutions...