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How Librarians Continue Their Work Digitally Even as Coronavirus Closes Libraries

How Librarians Continue Their Work Digitally Even as Coronavirus Closes Libraries

We’ve been doing a lot of coverage this month of …

EdSurge Podcast

March 17, 202035m 49s

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Show Notes

We’ve been doing a lot of coverage this month of schools and colleges closing and shifting online to try to finish out their semesters amid this pandemic. And of course, libraries that are being forced to shut their doors are trying to shift online too. To get a sense of what the widespread closure of libraries could mean, and hear some creative ways libraries are reaching out digitally, I connected yesterday with Jessamyn West, an educational technologist who runs the librarian.net blog and is author of "Without a Net: Librarians Bridging the Digital Divide."