Security Network Panel on the impact of COVID-19 on libraries/special collectionson
- Lockdown: what actually happens when such an announcement is made?What do you do? Who do you contact, what can be arranged/what can’t?
- Crisis management: Who are involved, who makes what type of decions, what topics are being decided on, suprises?
- Remote work: how is that arranged and what are alternatives if your work is at the lcoation you can’t get to?
- Communication: with staff, stakeholders, visitors, networkpartners, other institutions you’ve lent material to or you have their material, i.e. outstanding loans.
- Social component: contact with staff, issues staff have with coping with the situation as a whole, with working from home etc? • Planning for re-opening: what is needed, what is mandatory?
- How do you implement Corona measures when working with collections? Some positives to share!!
- Looking ahead: how are we moving forward… with a 1,5 meter society, are we changing the way we work? Embracing technologies, going back to the way we were?
On the panel were Jacqueline Lambert (Royal Library, Brussels and Chairman of the CERL Security Network), Foekje Boersma (Royal Library, The Hague), Angela Dellebeke (National Archives, The Hague), Frédéric Lemmers (Royal Library, Brussels) and Andrea Cappa (Biblioteca Nacionale Centrale, Rome), who talked about amending workflows; communication; security and safety issues; and opportunities and positive outcomes.
