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The Role of Academic Libraries in a Pandemic Era

The unforeseen emergence of COVID-19 throughout the world has des­troyed the livelihood of the whole world and affected the education system along with libraries and information services. Academic libraries cater for teaching, learning, and research activities in their institutions and play a prominent role in storing, organising, and providing access to information resources for their sta­keholders. Libraries play an important role and can adopt new developments in information and communications technology (ICT) along with other tools and tech­niques to enhance their contributions to teaching, learning, research and institu­tional visibility. This chapter delineates the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on higher education institutions (HEIs) and their libraries and identifies some of the many issues and challenges. The pandemic has revealed numerous opportunities for library and information professionals and exposed innovations that can be implemented in rendering library services to library users during the devastating situation. The chapter briefly explains how libraries can make use of appropriate tools and technologies, adapt to new trends, seize opportunities, and take advan­t

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