The Impact of COVID-19 on the Use of Academic Library Resources

Authors

Ruth Sara Connell, Valparaiso UniversityFollow
Lisa C. Wallis, Northeastern Illinois UniversityFollow
David Comeaux, Louisiana State UniversityFollow

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.

Comments

Tentative publication date is summer 2021.

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