This is the beginning of the NMRT weekly digest of unique resources, links, tips and more to help our members during the COVID-19 pandemic. This week is dedicated to resources that were published by ALA and IFLA. Feel free to add to the discussion below. Please keep an eye out for themed weekly digests in the future.
ALA Resources*
*Published in an email from ALA (Subject: ALA Resources in the time of COVID-19) on March 26, 2020
- The recording of the AL Live webinar Libraries & COVID-19: Managing Strategies and Stress is now available. Librarians from communities that have been on the front lines of this crisis discuss lessons learned during the initial response and how they are continuing to provide important services as public facilities close and commerce slows.
- As of March 19, Booklist and Book Links is available for free online, offering more than 25 years' worth of recommended print and audiobook reviews, features, interviews, spotlights, and classroom connections. To learn how to put Booklist Online to work, check out this video tutorial.
- The ALA Connect Member Community is a vibrant hub of conversation. Stay connected and share your creative solutions with one another, including on threads like:
IFLA Resources
- "The IFLA Library Services to Multicultural Populations Section is working with the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA) to create translated signage and text for libraries to communicate with their communities about library closures and changes to programs. Freely downloadable in 30 languages (and counting), you are welcome to share, edit and adapt this content to your own library's needs." To learn more about this resource, please check out the IFLA website.
- COVID-19 and Global Libraries: "The information and resources below are provided on a non-exhaustive basis but will be updated regularly. It is based on publicly available information, and that submitted to updates@ifla.org. We welcome additional ideas, references, suggestions and corrections to this address. Please see also our FAQs specifically concerning IFLA.
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Nicole LaMoreaux
2019-2020 NMRT President
Assistant Director of Research and Instructional Services
The New School
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