Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future
Public libraries are known as places for information, communication, and gathering, but what happens when a pandemic restricts social contact? In the years 2020 and 2021, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, libraries worldwide revised services and explored new ways to provide information and su...
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East Carolina University
2021-09-01
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| description | Public libraries are known as places for information, communication, and gathering, but what happens when a pandemic restricts social contact? In the years 2020 and 2021, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, libraries worldwide revised services and explored new ways to provide information and support to communities—primarily through digital services. This conceptual analytical paper responds to this approach by suggesting the use of a tripartite information access and digital inclusion model that can be used for evaluative processes related to ensuring ongoing physical, intellectual, and social access to public library services during a public crisis shutdown. We provide an overview of some of the new and altered services provided within the case of the Richland Library system in South Carolina, USA, and then discuss these changes using the tripartite model as a means to illustrate how this theoretical model can be employed for practical evaluation and decision-making. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-bdab601ff3ab42e895b9fa35ad28191f2023-02-02T11:02:37ZengEast Carolina UniversityThe International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion2574-34302021-09-015310.33137/ijidi.v5i3.36195Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital FutureKim M. Thompson0Amanda Reed1University of South CarolinaRichland LibraryPublic libraries are known as places for information, communication, and gathering, but what happens when a pandemic restricts social contact? In the years 2020 and 2021, in response to the coronavirus pandemic, libraries worldwide revised services and explored new ways to provide information and support to communities—primarily through digital services. This conceptual analytical paper responds to this approach by suggesting the use of a tripartite information access and digital inclusion model that can be used for evaluative processes related to ensuring ongoing physical, intellectual, and social access to public library services during a public crisis shutdown. We provide an overview of some of the new and altered services provided within the case of the Richland Library system in South Carolina, USA, and then discuss these changes using the tripartite model as a means to illustrate how this theoretical model can be employed for practical evaluation and decision-making.https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijidi/article/view/36195Digital inclusionCOVID-19Social distancingtripartite information access modelpublic libraries |
| spellingShingle | Kim M. Thompson Amanda Reed Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future The International Journal of Information, Diversity, & Inclusion Digital inclusion COVID-19 Social distancing tripartite information access model public libraries |
| title | Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future |
| title_full | Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future |
| title_fullStr | Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future |
| title_short | Learning from Pandemic Mode to Create a Sustainable Digital Future |
| title_sort | learning from pandemic mode to create a sustainable digital future |
| topic | Digital inclusion COVID-19 Social distancing tripartite information access model public libraries |
| url | https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ijidi/article/view/36195 |
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