In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic pushed the number of college students in the United States learning virtually to an all-time high, leading the services that academic librarians provide to students enrolled in online courses to become more crucial than ever before. According to EducationData.org, some estimates show that 3278 higher education institutions and 22.3 million students have been impacted by a switch to online courses. The current study utilized an online survey of students, faculty, as well as academic librarians at The University of Southern Mississippi regarding the use of librarians in online courses. Questions focused on what library services are currently being provided for online students, what strategies for incorporating librarians into online courses have been utilized, and gathered perspectives from faculty, students, and librarians themselves in order to better establish best practices for providing the growing number of online students with the library services they need.

2020年，COVID-19大流行将美国学习的大学生人数几乎提高到了历史最高水平，这使得学术图书馆员向注册在线课程的学生提供的服务变得比以往任何时候都更加重要。根据EducationData.org的估计，转换为在线课程对3278所高等教育机构和2230万学生产生了影响。当前的研究利用了一项在线调查，该调查针对南密西西比大学的学生，教职员工和学术图书馆员，有关图书馆员在网络课程中的使用情况。问题集中在当前为在线学生提供哪些图书馆服务，采用了何种策略将图书馆员纳入在线课程中，并收集了教师，学生，