COVID-19 NEWS: 'Reopening Libraries in New Zealand: Slow and Steady Wins the Race'
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Justin Hoenke writes the following for his blog, Justin the Librarian: "[Last] week our libraries here in Wellington, New Zealand began the process of reopening our spaces to the public. ... There were many meetings and discussions around what reopening could look like and all angles and ideas were heard, considered, and then eventually decided upon."
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COVID-19 NEWS: 'Libraries Around the World Prepare for a New Normal'
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bibliotheca published an article stating the following: "Across the world, many countries have begun a gradual reopening of public life in an attempt to return a sense of normalcy to residents' lives and diminish the economic impact of the Covid-19 global pandemic. ... [L]ibraries are struggling to figure out the best course of action to safely resume providing services to their communities."
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COVID-19 NEWS: 'FlatWorld Announces Textbooks Will Include COVID-19 Updates for Fall Semester'
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Twenty-plus FlatWorld authors made substantial additions to their textbooks to reflect how COVID-19 has impacted their fields. FlatWorld will start publishing these revised textbooks over the summer, and it plans to update more than a dozen titles by the start of the fall 2020 semester.
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COVID-19 NEWS: Inside Higher Ed's 'What It's Gonna Take'
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Elizabeth Redden writes the following for Inside Higher Ed: "As college administrators across the country continue announcing plans to reopen their institutions this fall, two important questions have been largely lost in the debates over those decisions. What will it take for colleges to reopen responsibly as long as there is no vaccine or treatment for COVID-19--and how realistic is it that colleges can put measures in place by fall?"
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COVID-19 NEWS: Inside Higher Ed's 'Open-Access Publishing and the Coronavirus'
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Jack Grove writes the following for Inside Higher Ed: "The unrestricted sharing of scientific papers during the coronavirus pandemic may have hastened the shift toward more open-access publishing, scientists believe, as several leading journals move to make content publicly available."
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