Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted higher education, including academic libraries. This paper compares the use of library resources (including interlibrary loan, website and discovery tool pageviews, database use, patron interactions, etc.) at three university libraries before and after the pandemic. The latter part of the 2019 and 2020 spring semesters are the timeframes of focus, although two control timeframes from earlier in those semesters are used to determine how the semesters differed when the coronavirus was not a factor. The institutions experienced similar patterns of use across many metrics.
Version
Preprint
Recommended Citation
Connell, Ruth Sara; Wallis, Lisa C.; and Comeaux, David, "The Impact of COVID-19 on the Use of Academic Library Resources" (2021). Library Faculty Publications. 5.
https://neiudc.neiu.edu/lib-pub/5
Comments
Tentative publication date is summer 2021.