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BIALL Covid-19 Industry Survey 2020: an Introduction

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 June 2021

Karen Brown
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Abstract

The British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL) carried out a survey of BIALL members during May 2020 in order to gain a view, at a point in time, of the impact of Covid-19.1 National lockdowns in both the United Kingdom and Ireland had come into force in March 2020. The survey was a way of gauging how the legal information community was responding to the challenges and changing circumstances brought about as a result of the pandemic. This brief introduction by Karen Brown, President of BIALL, sets the scene for the results of the survey which appear in the pages that follow.2

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national lockdownCovid-19legal information professionalslegal information managerslaw librarianssurveys
Type
BIALL Covid-19 Industry Survey 2020
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 21 , Issue 1 , March 2021 , pp. 2 - 3
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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Footnotes

1 N.B. The term COVID-19 is the convention used in the survey. However, this introduction follows an approach used in other articles published in this journal by referring to the pandemic in lower case as Covid-19.

2 The full results of the survey were published on the BIALL website at an earlier stage in 2020, available to BIALL members only: https://biall.org.uk/ For reasons of confidentiality some pages of the survey have not been included in this published version (ie. pages 20–21 and 23–24).