Library in the Time of COVID-19
As many of you already know, I'm currently working towards my Masters of Information Science, which is a fancy way of saying I'm studying to be a librarian. As someone with a background in history, and who has recently been doing a unit about community history collections, the current historical moment has been equal parts terrifying and fascinating, and as I have adjusted, has settled down to become purely fascinating. (In fact, with restrictions beginning to ease here in WA, I am actually feeling almost sad that soon things may have to go back to normal, as I was enjoying all the extra time to read...) Obviously pandemics are very serious, and I'm not an expert in infectious diseases, medicine or anything like that, but I am really interested in the way that libraries have been responding to the new challenges raised by social distancing and so on. A few weeks ago, I wrote a poem about a team of brave librarians pivoting their services to keep the people supplied with boo...