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Surviving the Covid-19 Pandemic Lockdown: a Case Study

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 March 2021

Peter Kargbo
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Abstract

In this article Peter Kargbo describes the impact of the first national lockdown, due to Covid-19, on students using the Hartley Library at the University of Southampton. He describes some of the ways that library services responded and looks at some aspects concerning collection development. He begins his article by taking a brief look at life in the library for students prior to the arrival of the pandemic before describing the period that followed up to the end of the academic year in summer 2020.

Keywords

university librariesnational lockdownCovid-19
Type
Lockdown & Challenges for the Legal Information World (Cont.)
Information
Legal Information Management , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , December 2020 , pp. 227 - 230
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by British and Irish Association of Law Librarians

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