"Key features: focuses on the intermediate practicalities of service provision under COVID-19; considers longer-term strategic responses to emerging challenges; identifies key concerns and problems for librarians and library leaders; analyzes approaches to COVID-19 planning; presents and examines exemplars of best practice from around the world; offers practical models and a useful framework for the future"--Page 4 of cover

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface: What is in this book -- Libraries, digital information, and COVID : practical applications and approaches to challenge and change / Immediate challenges: Working towards a "new normal" : HKUST's innovations and adaptations in response to COVID-19 / Back to the future? : practical consequences and strategic implications of a UK academic library's COVID response / Teaching librarians' experiences in the first months of system change / How the Corona pandemic influenced public libraries in Denmark / Digital information services provided by libraries during the COVID-19 pandemic : case studies from the viewpoint of supply chain management / COVID-19 : libraries' responses to the global health emergency / The role of research libraries in promoting open-access resources and maintaining online community / Project and programme delivery in a pandemic setting / Analysis and opportunities for new behaviours: How we learn: Acceleration of digital learning and what it means for libraries / Libraries, learning, and porous boundaries : reimagining the library landscape and its inhabitants / Digital-first approaches and the library brand in a post-pandemic world / During COVID-19 : emerging themes in higher education / Student satisfaction with library resources in the COVID-19 era : a case study of Portuguese academic libraries / No one left behind / COVID-19 and the digital divide in higher education : a Commonwealth perspective / Supply of information: The use of data in publishing and library acquisition strategies / Trustworthy or not? : research data on COVID-19 in data repositories / Impact of COVID-19 pandemic on scientific production / Psychological effects : adjustment or radical alteration?: Something old, something new / Library space and COVID-19 : re-thinking of place and re-designing of digital space / Online misinformation, its influence on the student body, and institutional responsibilities / Crowdsourcing COVID-19 : a brief analysis of librarian posts on Reddit / No child ignored / Re-shaping society and the future: "Normalizing" the online/blended delivery method into a lasting cultural shift / The battered library : navigating the future in a new reality / Look to the future now, it's only just begun : the changing role of libraries during and after COVID-19 / After COVID? : classical mechanics / The times they are a-changin' : but how fundamentally and how rapidly : academic library services post-pandemic / Envisioning opportunities and movement for the future of academic libraries / A framework for sustainable success / Delphi questions.

David Baker and Lucy Ellis -- part 1. Diana L.H. Chan and Victorial F. Caplan ; Tim Wales ; Amanda Glimstedt, David Kjellin, and Katarina Michnik ; Carl Gustav Johannsen ; Bulcsu Szekely ; Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstaninou and Evgenia Vassilakaki ; Jane Winters ; Scott Henderson -- part 2. section A. Sam Brenton and Sandra Tury ; Ellen Buck and Anna Nunn ; Richard Maidment-Otlet ; Sayeda Zain ; Maria Luz Atunes ; Rob May ; Lucy Shackleton and Rosanna Mann ; section B: Melissa Fulkerson ; Otmane Azeroual and Joachim Schöpfel ; Juan D. Machin-Mastromatteo, Javier Tarango and José Refugio Romo-González ; section C. Rick Rylance ; Evgenia Vassilakaki and Valentini Moniarou-Papaconstantinou ; Andy Phippen and Emma Bond ; Daniella Smith ; Sarah Mears -- part 3. Paul Kirkham ; Stephen Akintunde ; Martin Hamilton ; Graeme Hawley ; Jeremy Atkinson ; Yi Shen ; David Baker and Lucy Ellis -- Appendix A: