LIS 6603 Basic Information Sources and Services
LibGuide Group Presentation
The Spring semester of 2020 forced us all to expand our ideas of what it means to be a student and how the library can and should engage with our community. The real-life experiment of ripping away all of the expected and traditional ways of interacting with the community forced libraries to create innovative ways to interact with each other.
My team had selected the Hillsborough County Public Library Cooperative for the basis of our LibGuide. We were equidistant from the system and none of us used it as our home system. COVID forced the closure of the libraries.
We were forced to get creative. COVID presented unprecedented challenges to our profession and our communities. I believe that despite painful losses, our experience in the program and our profession as a whole ultimately benefited from facing and addressing the challenges.