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Pandemic Resources for Academic Libraries: Community Resources

Updated information, professional development, and resources to support academic and research library personnel during a pandemic.

Academic Library Response to COVID19 (Survey)

Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe (University of Illinois at Urbana-Campaign) and Christine Wolff-Eisenberg (Ithaka S+R) are gathering information on academic libraries in the United States and the response to COVID19. Libraries are encouraged to fill out this form and contribute to the collective understanding of how libraries are responding to the situation of this pandemic. Libraries can update their responses as policies and practices change.

A link to the survey, live results, dashboards, visualizations, and more are available on the the US Academic Library Response to COVID19 Survey website.

News Coverage: COVID-19 & Libraries

COVID-19/Coronavirus LibGuides

COVID19/coronavirus LibGuides List

Created March 2020 by Emily Ford. A community Google Spreadsheet of LibGuides from academic libraries, including usage rights and target audience. Check out this wealth of resources, or add your library's!

COVID Behaviors Dashboard

Johns Hopkins Center for Communication Programs’ COVID Behaviors Dashboard presents data from a global survey of knowledge, attitudes and practices around COVID-19. This analysis is generated from the Delphi Group at Carnegie Mellon University COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey and University of Maryland Social Data Science Center COVID-19 Trends and Impact Survey (CTIS), in collaboration with Facebook.

View the dashboard.

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IMLS Resources

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