Despite having a new plexiglass barrier between our desk staff and students, we did everything we could to bring our heart of service to the students and maintain some ‘normalcy’ by decorating for Christmas. We had a visual map of where all the study stations were and a giant STOP sign at the ent...
We spent the entire summer making plans for reopening, writing protocols for the institution, setting up crisis management plans, setting aside a “sick room”, spacing out all of our classrooms and study spaces to 6ft/2m “social distance”. Yeah, that poor word-choice was difficult to get back once...
More perplexing to me than toilet paper shortages, was the shortage of yeast in supermarkets everywhere. I scrounged message boards for news of where I can find this now seemingly “hot” item. As with other families, life under quarantine allowed ours to reclaim life’s simple pleasures like making...
In late 2019, a new coronavirus emerged and began to spread globally, causing a once in a lifetime pandemic. Personalizing the Pandemic offers a snapshot of how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the professional and personal lives of theological and religious studies librarians, especially as they b...