Academic and Research Libraries in Nigeria's Post Covid-19 Pandemic Era

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Abstract

unique challenges to all stakeholders of the library. This forced academic and research libraries and librarians all over the globe to ascertain new ways of providing library and information services to library and information users. This paper therefore discusses academic and research libraries in the Covid-19 pandemic in Nigeria with a special concern on the information services provision role. To achieve this, the paper conceptually treated the concept of library and information services and explored the role of academic and research libraries in the post Covid 19 pandemic era. The paper also presents the digital platforms availability for the academic and research libraries utilization for the fulfilment of library and information services role in the post COVID-19 pandemic era. It also identifies and discusses the skills requirements of librarians in the post COVID-19 pandemic era. The paper also highlights the challenges and made recommendations such as academic and research libraries should re-assess every existing service and re-design it to facilitate it use by library users and in view of the government COVID-19 protocols to deal with situation.

Keywords

COVID-19, Pandemic, Library and Information Services, Provision, Digital Platforms

DOI

10.0000/wijamssae.v1i1.5

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