Online Resourcing in a Time of COVID-19

The Internet is great you say. Why do I need libraries or staff expertise? Well, that has been said to me before, but you do need libraries: for free print and e-books and other take-outs, for on-site and virtual adult and children’s programming, and to guide you to informed, entertaining, and enriching resources. There is no argument that the Internet is a great resource, of course, but only once you have learned to navigate it knowingly, and to separate the informed from the uninformed, truth from falsehood, fact-based from fiction. Library staff can help by being our lifetime guides. So, in a homebound time of COVID-19, I want to raise your expectations from your public library. Speaking with my Westmoreland Library Network™ hat on, as Board President, I am going to challenge all …