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Trends in Latin America: Libraries’ Challenges Magnified by the COVID-19 Pandemic

Talavera-Ibarra, Ana María

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Title
Trends in Latin America: Libraries’ Challenges Magnified by the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s)
Talavera-Ibarra, Ana María
Issue Date
2022-11
Keyword(s)
  • COVID-19
  • Pandemic
  • Libraries during COVID-19
Date of Ingest
2024-05-06T11:28:10-05:00
Geographic Coverage
Latin America
Abstract
At the beginning of 2020, our world experienced an unusual turnaround in our daily lives. The appearance of COVID-19 forced all inhabitants to suspend their economic, social, and educational activities and to remain in confinement. Library services were strongly affected, and after an almost total paralysis they restarted their activities “reinventing themselves,” that is, looking for new ways or expanding existing ones, specifically remotely, to provide information to those who required it. This work describes the situation of libraries in Spanish-Portuguese Latin America facing the crisis caused by the pandemic. It gives an overview of the situation in the region and reports on the role of libraries during the current crisis and the near future. It reviews the twenty world trends in the library environment as presented in the “IFLA Trend Report 2021 Update,” comparing them with the reality of Latin America. In order to make a more precise analysis, the twenty trends are grouped into four areas: society, community/users, libraries, and role of librarians. The article concludes with a vision of the future, foreseeing the roles of libraries and librarians in the post-pandemic years.
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Series/Report Name or Number
Volume 71, Issue 2, November 2022
Type of Resource
text
Genre of Resource
article
Language
eng
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Copyright 2022 University of Illinois Board of Trustees

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Library Trends 71 (2) November 2022: Seventieth Anniversary Celebration Issue of Library Trends: Influence, Reach, Visibility, and Engagement [Restricted Access] PRIMARY
The journal Library Trends, now in its seventieth year, has since its inception in 1952 been produced by the School of Information Sciences, formerly the Graduate School of Library and Information Science (GSLIS), at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The quarterly journal is currently published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This 71 (2) issue celebrates the contributions the journal has made to library and information science (LIS) internationally.