"We Are All Distance Learners Now": How Distance Learning Informed a Library Team's Response to the Covid-19 Pandemic. Issue 2 (3rd April 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Wheeler, Alex; Kyprianou-Chavda, Voula
• Is Part Of: Journal of library & information services in distance learning. Volume 15:Issue 2(2021)
• Page Start: 84
• Page End: 98
• Publication Date: 2021-04-03
• Subjects: Distance-learning -- Covid-19 -- Box of Broadcasts -- resource creation -- electronic resources -- librarian role -- multi-disciplinary team -- Coronavirus; Libraries and distance education -- Periodicals; Information services -- Periodicals; 025.5
• DOI: 10.1080/1533290X.2021.1938788
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1533-290X

Abstract

Abstract: This article explores the response of the Science and Engineering Library team at Manchester Metropolitan University to the Covid-19 pandemic. It examines how the team's experience supporting distance-learning programmes acted as both a dress rehearsal and a road map for Library provision during the pandemic. In particular, the changing role of staff members whilst operating in the Covid-19 setting is carefully reflected upon. The article is structured into three sections, discussing support for distance-learning programmes, distance learning and Covid-19, and the changes Covid-19 prompted within the team's operation.