Purpose

The authors ask the question of how libraries can advocate for themselves and for those who most need the library during the pandemic, and evaluate how the authors adapt to a future of helping underserved and underrepresented populations in new ways after it subsides.

Design/methodology/approach

Using data currently being provided by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other sources, prior issue analyses dealing with library programs and advocacy, and lessons from a few dystopian novels, the authors lay out the political and social implications of the coronavirus on libraries now and in the future.

Findings

Because the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic shut down physical library buildings everywhere, forcing extremely slow re-openings and decimating library programs, conversation is building now on how libraries will overcome its massive blow. Underrepresented populations who most need library information (namely, the homeless, Native Americans, Black and Hispanic peoples among others) are suffering disproportionately from the pandemic and its aftereffects that are just beginning to reverberate.

Originality/value

This paper presents a viewpoint backed by lessons from American history, specifically the Civil Rights Movement, and the dystopian novel 1984 by George Orwell. Currently, the conversations around what will happen to libraries are limited, but will hopefully grow as libraries (and the rest of the world) attempt to move forward in an unprecedented situation.

中文翻译：

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反乌托邦时代的响应式管理和图书馆宣传：利用民权运动和 1984 年的信息加强图书馆

目的

作者提出了一个问题，即图书馆如何在大流行期间为自己和最需要图书馆的人进行宣传，并评估作者如何适应未来以新的方式帮助服务不足和代表性不足的人群。

设计/方法/方法

作者利用疾病控制与预防中心 (CDC) 和其他来源目前提供的数据、处理图书馆计划和宣传的先前问题分析以及一些反乌托邦小说的教训，阐述了冠状病毒的政治和社会影响现在和将来的图书馆。

调查结果

由于 2019 年冠状病毒病 (COVID-19) 大流行关闭了各地的实体图书馆建筑，迫使重新开放速度极其缓慢并大量减少图书馆项目，因此现在正在讨论图书馆将如何克服其巨大打击。最需要图书馆信息的代表性不足的人群（即无家可归者、美洲原住民、黑人和西班牙裔人等）正在遭受不成比例的大流行及其刚刚开始产生影响的后果。

原创性/价值

本文提出了一种观点，其观点来自美国历史的教训，特别是民权运动和乔治奥威尔 1984 年的反乌托邦小说。目前，关于图书馆将发生什么的讨论是有限的，但随着图书馆（和世界其他地区）试图在前所未有的情况下向前发展，讨论有望增加。