Os desafios das bibliotecas universitárias frente à pandemia

Abstract

This live is part of the Information Records project: dialogues between Librarianship, Archival Science and Information Science; coordinated by the Superintendent of the University Library System (SIBI/UFBA), professor Ivana Borges Lins, in partnership with the Information Science Institute (ICI)/UFBA. Ivana Borges Lins, coordinator of SIBI (UFBA), interviewed librarian Sigrid Karin (Brazilian Commission of University Libraries-CBBU). The interviewee spoke about the challenges imposed on university libraries by the COVID-19 pandemic, such as: digitization in these spaces, with attention to the Copyright Law; issues related to business models and e-book acquisitions; remote services and assistance and others. She pointed out that libraries innovated in the pandemic period. The CBBU made recommendations regarding the sanitization and decontamination of the collections. Regarding the reopening of libraries, he said that there should be training of employees, use of communication resources with the community, in addition to having a plan, based on existing contingency plans, related to the theme.