Transition and Transformation: Realigning to develop a New Model Library

The COVID-19 pandemic has fundamentally changed higher education and academic libraries. Services and modes of collaboration have had to shift dramatically to adapt to challenges and support the rapidly changing needs of our communities. This panel featured three research projects that identify how academic libraries and researchers have responded to the COVID-19 pandemic: how researchers have modified the ways they collaborate, conduct and disseminate research, and how they have used the pandemic to generate new research; how academic library leaders have used these responses to envision a new model library; and how libraries have transitioned to fully virtual reference models.