COVID Impact Survey: Better Understanding Libraries' Approach to Navigating the Pandemic and its Impact on Support for Open Initiatives

Nancy Maron; Juan Pablo Alperin; Nick Shockey

In 2020, as the COVID pandemic continued to spread, colleges and universities took action to protect staff, faculty, and students, while continuing to teach and conduct research to assess the impact on academic libraries as all learning rapidly moved online. The SPARC study on the impact of COVID was intended to address academic libraries’ budgetary challenges and approaches, with a focus on understanding how they affected attitudes towards content, collections, and open initiatives.