The COVID-19 pandemic led to widespread lockdowns that hit libraries around the world hard. Students and faculty can no longer gather in classrooms, laboratories, or libraries which causes major disruption to teaching, learning, and research, as well as to library services and to collection management. As a direct consequence libraries see an increased demand for electronic resources and the demand to serve patrons remotely – around the clock.

How do you fulfil the numerous requests from teaching, learning, and research while undertaking the critical thinking so essential to our future? How do you respond to the ever increasing workload? How do you cope with so many routine tasks that are often very time-consuming?

Discover why Alma is the right choice for your library by learning how Mary Immaculate College reduced the time spent on repetitive and unnecessary tasks and enabled themselves to be service-oriented and to work with their patrons to get them the right materials – all while working remotely.