IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/fip/a00034/99335.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Public Libraries and the Workforce

Author

Abstract

This Workforce Currents article presents the broad range of ways that public libraries are responding to COVID-19. It provides a brief overview of the role of libraries and their range of services, how they responded to workforce needs in the past, and how they are responding and preparing for long-term impacts of the current pandemic. Libraries are mobilizing for the economic fallout associated with COVID-19 such as facilitating unemployment insurance enrollment, referrals to food banks, and other services for immediate needs. Library staff are also thinking longer term about how shelter-in-place orders could expand telework in the future, how libraries can continue to support small businesses and entrepreneurs, and how they will continue to assist job seekers to connect to training opportunities and prepare for job openings.

Suggested Citation

  • Stephanie Holcomb, 2020. "Public Libraries and the Workforce," Workforce Currents 2020-07, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta.
    • Handle: RePEc:fip:a00034:99335
    DOI: 10.29338/wc2020-07
    Note: Summary of the 2019 Financial Innovations Roundtable (FIR)
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.atlantafed.org/-/media/documents/cweo/workforce-currents/2020/07/08/public-libraries-and-the-workforce.pdf
    File Function: Full text
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.29338/wc2020-07?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    COVID-19;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:fip:a00034:99335. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Rob Sarwark (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/frbatus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.