Remembering COVID-19; or, a duty to document the coronavirus pandemic

Remembering the coronavirus pandemic represents an obligation to present and future. Illuminating intersections between remembrance, documentary heritage, memory institutions COVID-19, this article argues that libraries, archives museums have a unique urgent duty document as it unfolds help ensure its associated recorded heritage is collected, preserved archived for future purposes of consultation, reference remembrance. Explicit ‘duty pandemic’ policy provisions should be adopted by to, first, strengthen their current COVID-19 initiatives and, second, support other possible related or global health crises. By documenting can collectively remembered crises better anticipated.