The Impact of COVID-19 on the Use of Academic Library Resources

The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted higher education, including academic libraries. This paper compares the use of library resources (including interlibrary loan, website and discovery tool pageviews, database use, patron interactions, etc.) at three university libraries before after pandemic. latter part 2019 2020 spring semesters are time frames focus, although two control from earlier in those used to determine how differed when coronavirus was not a factor. institutions experienced similar patterns across many metrics.