Pandemic Era is now an Opportunity for Library Professionals to Transform Libraries - Study

Meena S Suryavanshi

Meena S Suryavanshi Librarian, St. Xavier’s Institute of Education, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

Abstract

COVID-19 is a global health crisis, Pandemic extended as a wave in all continents. Library professionals were looking for the correct solution to provide possible services to these important situations. There is need to be familiar with the latest strategy to help pandemic users such as: several important strategies, including health awareness programs, provide research support and meet research needs from regular readers. During COVID-19, just like medical and emergency medical staff, library professionals also need to be ready, to provide the best possible service to students, teachers, researchers and other readers, because reading is a powerful tool, not only does it develop literacy, but it also has the capacity to think differently about the world we live in. But in the face of our new reality, reading is a powerful tool. Libraries needed to foster a new vision of making all services and information ubiquitous and flexible, regardless of geographic limitations or time and space challenges. The purpose of this paper is to understand various libraries, learn from the Pandemic and transform the change in library and library services. This study highlights Pandemic period moment is an organizing opportunity, for every library professionals to change the library. As above quote by Sun Tzu, guides us to look at this an opportunity to improve systems, processes and build a stronger tea.

How to cite this article: Suryavanshi MS. Pandemic Erais now an Opportunity for Library Professionals to Transform Libraries-Study. J Adv Res Humani Social Sci 2022; 9(4): 1-7.

DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.24321/2456.429X.202202

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