In May, Mea Warren (University of Houston) and Khue Duong (California State Long Beach) moderated the session “Welcome to the Endemic: Librarianship in a Post-Pandemic World.”
Lauren Gala (U Penn Libraries) talked about managing the Physics Library during the pandemic with only one other staff member. Are library workers “essential workers”? Do administrators expect library personnel to do more with less? What does a hybrid work schedule look like post-pandemic? These are the topics Lauren considered.
Stan Smith from IOP Publishing discussed the adjustment vendor representatives had to in their working with libraries. He made a reference to Ashlea Green’s Journal of Academic Librarianship article, “Post Covid-19: Expectations for Academic Library Collections, Remote Work, and Resource Description and Discovery Staffing.” Pre-pandemic, publisher representatives had a quota of a certain number of onsite visits; now, the majority of checking in is via Zoom meeting and emails. And everyone is aware of Zoom fatigue.
Thank you to Khue for this report!
PAM Bulletin 