Digital Library Perspectives: Volume 37 Issue 1

Guest editorial

Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, Anna Maria Tammaro

Digital services adapted by libraries in Mexico to COVID-19 pandemic: a critical review

Eugenia de los Ángeles Ortega-Martínez, Josmel Pacheco-Mendoza, Héctor Eduardo García Meléndez, Erik Miguel Ortiz-Díaz, César Saavedra-Alamillas

The purpose of this study is to analyze to what extent the strategic actions implemented by the libraries contribute to the containment of the pandemic caused by COVID-19, without…

An academic digital library advancing an equitable and inclusive educational environment

Karen La Macchia

At an academic digital library of a graduate business school in Berlin, Germany, the librarian reflects on the “new normal” following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, with its…

Responding to COVID-19 in an African university: the case the National University of Lesotho library

Buhle Mbambo-Thata

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the National University of Lesotho Library’s shift to supporting of contact teaching to e-learning because of COVID-19. The university…

Responsibilities of archivist now and in the future as the result of COVID – 19; Case of ICA-SUV

Nkholedzeni Sidney Netshakhuma

The purpose of this study was to examine the strategies for the preservation of archival materials in the International Council on Archives Section on University and Research…

COVID-19: strategies for positioning the university library in support of e-learning

Stephen Tsekea, Josiline Phiri Chigwada

The purpose of this study was to investigate the various innovative support strategies rendered by academic libraries in support of e-learning in Zimbabwean universities. This was…

COVID-19 and digital library services: an overview on legal information

Ginevra Peruginelli, Sara Conti, Chiara Fioravanti

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the initiatives providing legal information during the COVID-19 emergency, focusing on the fundamental role of digital libraries in…

New normal and library services in Indonesia: a case study of university libraries

Arda Putri Winata, Raisa Fadelina, Sulistyo Basuki

This paper aims to share the activities of library services in the new-normal era. The paper describes libraries’ circumstances since their reopening in early June 2020…