ABSTRACT

This study serves as a follow-up on a 2020 study by Wang and Lund that examined the policy changes and announcement information provided by American public libraries during the early weeks of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, using the same list of libraries as the 2020 study to examine how the COVID response evolved over the past two years. Seven types of information were collected from the public libraries’ websites, with the help of the Internet Archive to collect specific dates: frequency of announcement updates, date of start curbside/pickup services, date of reopening libraries, dates of posting vaccine-related information, dates of removal of COVID-19 related information, and dates of reopening face-to-face programs. The findings indicate that the timing of COVID response updates varied based on factors including the size of the municipality in which the public library is located and the political leaning of the municipality’s voters.

摘要

这项研究是 Wang 和 Lund 2020 年研究的后续研究，该研究使用与2020 年研究旨在考察过去两年中新冠疫情应对措施的演变情况。在互联网档案馆的帮助下，从公共图书馆网站收集了七类信息：公告更新频率、开始路边/取书服务的日期、图书馆重新开放的日期、发布疫苗相关信息的日期、删除 COVID-19 相关信息的日期以及重新开放面对面项目的日期。