What is the best way to manage collections to minimize the health and safety risk COVID-19 may pose to the public and staff? What services can be offered that support equitable access to collections when access to our buildings is restricted? Is it time for a review of membership and circulation policies? How do libraries achieve a balanced collection given the restraints and financial demands that COVID-19 creates?
Webinar
- Audio – mp3
- Video – (youtube)
- Presentation – PDF
Collections Checklist
General Materials Handling
- What are the minimum health and safety recommendations to permit the lending of physical collections, understanding that research is emerging on how long the COVID-19 virus remains on various types of surfaces?
Customer Access to Collections
- What services could be offered to limit physical contact and support access for all, particularly, vulnerable groups?
- What membership and circulation policies should be reviewed to encourage library use and equitable access?
Collections Development
- How should acquisition, cataloguing and processing workflows be adjusted?
- How can the library balance collections with new restraints and demands?
Collections Working Group
- Mary Cavanagh, School of Information Studies University of Ottawa
- Michael Ciccone, Executive Officer, London Public Library
- Sharon Day, Director, Branch Services and Collections, Edmonton Public Library
- Teresa Johnson, Director, Research and Planning, New Brunswick Public Library Service
- Edmund Salt, President, Whitehots Inc.
- Chantal Saulnier, Public Services Development Librarian, New Brunswick Public Library Service
