Public libraries in Norway and the Covid-19 pandemic
Public libraries have played a central role in natural disasters such as the tornado in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004/2005 and the tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, but also in the financial crisis from 2008. While public libraries in these crises took on a very active role in providing sh...
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ftunivtroemsoe:oai:munin.uit.no:10037/24330 2023-05-15T18:34:35+02:00 Public libraries in Norway and the Covid-19 pandemic Skare, Roswitha 2021 https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24330 https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/8/2/2 eng eng University of Akron Press Proceedings from the Document Academy (PDOCAM) https://ideaexchange.uakron.edu/docam/vol8/iss2/2 Skare r. Public libraries in Norway and the Covid-19 pandemic. Proceedings from the Document Academy (PDOCAM). 2021;8(2) FRIDAID 1955027 doi:10.35492/docam/8/2/2 2473-215X https://hdl.handle.net/10037/24330 openAccess Copyright 2021 The Author(s) VDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Biblioteks- og informasjonsvitenskap: 320::Dokumentasjonsvitenskap : 325 VDP::Social sciences: 200::Library and information science: 320::Documentation science: 325 Covid-19 / Covid-19 Digitization / Digitization Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed publishedVersion 2021 ftunivtroemsoe https://doi.org/10.35492/docam/8/2/2 2022-03-09T23:57:52Z Public libraries have played a central role in natural disasters such as the tornado in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004/2005 and the tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, but also in the financial crisis from 2008. While public libraries in these crises took on a very active role in providing shelter and infrastructure for their citizens, health crises seem to tell a different story. The Covid-19 pandemic that hit Europe and Norway in March 2020 caused a lock-down of public libraries’ buildings for several weeks, as was the case in almost every other European country. This paper investigates the situation for the public library in Tromsø (Norway) in the period from 12 March 2020 and towards a gradual reopening of the library building to the public in April the same year. Article in Journal/Newspaper Tromsø University of Tromsø: Munin Open Research Archive Norway Tromsø Proceedings from the Document Academy 8 2 |
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Public libraries have played a central role in natural disasters such as the tornado in the Gulf of Mexico in 2004/2005 and the tsunami in the Tohoku region of Japan in 2011, but also in the financial crisis from 2008. While public libraries in these crises took on a very active role in providing shelter and infrastructure for their citizens, health crises seem to tell a different story. The Covid-19 pandemic that hit Europe and Norway in March 2020 caused a lock-down of public libraries’ buildings for several weeks, as was the case in almost every other European country. This paper investigates the situation for the public library in Tromsø (Norway) in the period from 12 March 2020 and towards a gradual reopening of the library building to the public in April the same year. |
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Public libraries in Norway and the Covid-19 pandemic |
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