New Issue of IFLA Journal Available

March 25, 2022

Vol 48, No 1 (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 that range from original research to case studies and review articles.

Table of Contents

Editorial

Libraries and COVID-19: Opportunities for innovation
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
Carolyne Ménard

Original Articles

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

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

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

Case Studies

Exploring National Library of Scotland datasets with Jupyter Notebooks
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
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
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
James E. Murphy, Carla J. Lewis, Christena A. McKillop and Marc Stoeckle

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

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

Dissemination of information in the COVID-19 era in university libraries in Nigeria
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
Simon Wakeling, Jane Garner, Philip Hider, Hamid Jamali, Jessie Lymn, Yazdan Mansourian and Holly Randell-Moon

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

Review Article

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

Original Articles

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

Prevalence and source analysis of COVID-19 misinformation in 138 countries
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
Brady D. Lund and Sanjay Kumar Maurya

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

Abstracts

Corrigendum

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

(Via IFLA Journal)

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.