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<jats:p> During the COVID-19 period, Swedish public libraries have gone through five phases, which diverge, noticeably from many other European countries. During the first phase of the pandemic, most public libraries stayed open. The week before Christmas 2020 most public libraries where temporally closed. The roll of public libraries in the local community was under debate, could the local community do without libraries? </jats:p>

<jats:p> Covid-19 has impacted on every aspect of daily life across the United Kingdom. At once both a public health crisis and an ‘infodemic’ of misinformation, it has presented unique challenges for library and information services. Yet despite these challenges, the pandemic has also given our services a new-found relevance. Readership has increased dramatically. Librarians in health have turned their skills to the search for an effective vaccine. Our colleagues in schools, colleges and Universities have stepped up to help their institutions achieve a rapid ‘digital pivot’. In the private sector, librarians and information professionals have used their skills to help their companies go online and to ensure the continuity of their activities. It is not yet clear how the pandemic will change our habits, attitudes and behaviours in the long term. As we begin to look ahead to a future in which ‘digital’ has taken its place on equal terms with face-to-face services, the library and information sector is uniquely positioned to help our communities thrive in a post-pandemic era. In this article, Nick Poole, the Chief Executive of CILIP, the United Kingdom’s Library and Information Association, looks back at the last year for UK libraries and explores the challenges and opportunities ahead. </jats:p>

<jats:p> The covid pandemic forced KBR, Belgium's national library, to close its doors to the public and staff on March 18, 2020. The opening of a new museum had to be postponed. But ultimately, the covid closure led to an accelerated rollout of KBR's digital strategy. </jats:p>

<jats:p> The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has been shown to impact the business environment in different ways. The current paper presents how the university and research library websites in Tanzania responded to the changes in the working environment and style following the outbreak of COVID-19. This study employed a content analysis method to collect and analyse data from academic and research library websites in Tanzania. This study focuses on how library websites in Tanzania were used to update and connect library users with relevant information resources and services during the outbreak of the COVID-19. The findings show that 12 of the 24 library websites had the opening and closing hours, two university library websites had information related to the outbreak of the COVID-19 and 12 had no information related to the outbreak of the COVID-19. This study has an important practical implication for the academic and research librarians on the effective use of library websites for information sharing and communication. </jats:p>

<jats:p> Assessing the performance of information literacy (IL) students can be a daunting task for librarians globally. Most IL sessions are taught in 1 to 2 hours where any meaningful assessments are difficult to achieve. This research demonstrated how this feat was achieved in an active learning environment through the use of Google Forms. This mixed method study shows how this was effectively achieved to test both lower and higher order skills in a 2 hour session to one hundred and seventy-two foundation writing course students.The research tested a rarely examined feature of Google Forms which is the tool’s effectiveness in enabling comprehensive assessment, facilitating active learning, and identifying instructional errors in an IL instruction session. The findings show that Google Forms can be used to teach and administer a quiz using both multiple-choice as well as open-ended questions to assess both low and higher order learning skills in IL. Students were able to actively respond to questions while they were being taught, the data gathered and analyzed and used to inform future library instruction. It also showed that Google Forms are useful not simply to administer multiple-choice quizzes at the end of teaching but can be used in executing real-time assessment and support active learning. Because Google Forms support the easy creation of charts and downloading/exporting of statistics, results of assessments can be shared among librarians, faculty, and students to motivate and encourage digital pedagogy. It allows for greater collaboration with faculty in the cooperative teaching of students in single sessions where there is usually difficulty in having dialogue with faculty once a session ends. This case study is based on a limited number of students; thus, the findings of this research may not be generalized but the methodology and some skills in teaching the concepts encountered by librarians may be replicated. </jats:p>

<jats:p> The voices of West Indian writers in the 1950s changed the landscape for Literature emerging out of the West Indies. These powerful literary voices were a means of creating and recording a facet of West Indian history and cultural heritage. West Indian writers wrote their stories through their own eyes. John Hearne was one of the most eloquent voices among them. He became a known voice in the West Indian literary world, using his recognition to facilitate the indigenous West Indian Literature genre’s development. He was also a prominent Jamaican political and social commentator. The John Hearne archive not only produced an important historical picture of the development of the West Indian Literature genre, but West Indian political history, and changes in the cultural and social fabric of the West Indian society, with special emphasis on Jamaica. This paper aims to present this archive as a fundamental body of primary resources for historical research. </jats:p>

<jats:p> This article provides suggestions on ways in which the library can engage in staff training even on a very stringent budget. Three strategies are suggested, and these are (a) each one teach one, (b) leveraging the knowledge of faculty and library staff, and (c) utilizing the power of the webinar. </jats:p>

<jats:sec><jats:title>Purpose</jats:title><jats:p> Entrepreneurship is being seen as a core driver of economic revival. Consequently, organizations and institutions, including universities, are being called upon to accelerate their role in an increasingly entrepreneurial environment. The sub-streams of entrepreneurship are manifold; yet, there is still the notion that entrepreneurship is solely about making profits. Within this context there are questions, within and without librarianship, regarding whether a library, which is a non-profit entity, can be an entrepreneur. As such, this paper purposed to examine the extent to which the terms library and entrepreneurship harmonise, through a case study of a large Caribbean university library, with the objective of highlighting practice, possibilities and lessons. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Design/Methodology</jats:title><jats:p> Employees of the understudy library were purposively sampled and surveyed. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Findings</jats:title><jats:p> The theo-practical lens through which one views entrepreneurship, determine perceptions regarding the status of the understudy library as an entrepreneur. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Research Limitations/Implications</jats:title><jats:p> This paper examined one of the largest indigenous university library in the English-speaking Caribbean; it is possible that the situation for other types/sizes of Caribbean university libraries may vary. Therefore, it would be useful to study other Caribbean university libraries. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Originality/Value</jats:title><jats:p> This paper contributes to the growing body of literature on “libraries and entrepreneurship” and evidence for “value of libraries” albeit from a Caribbean perspective. It also highlights the status of entrepreneurship in libraries in general, and a Caribbean university library in particular, and in this regard offers a case for strengthening entrepreneurship in other Caribbean university libraries. Additionally, it is the first scholarly paper on Caribbean university library entrepreneurship. </jats:p></jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Practical &amp; Social Implications</jats:title><jats:p> There is a gap in the literature on practical examples and scholarly papers on building a Caribbean entrepreneurial university library. Using the response of the understudy Caribbean university library, this paper seeks to fill this gap, albeit incrementally, through proposing a broad “Entrepreneurial University Library Framework for building an entrepreneurial university library within the context of the Caribbean. Although this study was conducted within a Caribbean context, hence the phrase entrepreneurial Caribbean university library, its model can be used by other comparable institutions worldwide, struggling with increasing demands to be entrepreneurial. </jats:p></jats:sec>