چكيده فارسي :
بشر همواره با شرايط بحراني گوناگون و حوادث غيرقابل پيش بيني همچون سيل، زلزله و بيماري هاي واگير وحشتناكي چون وبا، طاعون، سل و آنفولانزا مواجه بوده است. به جرأت مي توان گفت شيوع ويروس كرونا (كوويد-19) تكان دهنده ترين پاندمي با اثرات مخرب در همه ي مناطق جغرافيايي جهان و همه ي جنبه هاي حيات زميني بوده است. دولت ها به طور فزاينده اي قرنطينه ها، مقررات منع رفت و آمد، تعطيلي و ساير كنترل هاي محدودكننده عليه كشورها، شهروندان و مؤسسات را اعمال مي كنند و امكانات خود را براي مقابله با عفونت و جلوگيري از شيوع آن به كار مي گيرند (1).
در ميان اضطراب ناشي از تعطيلي و لغو برنامه هاي آموزشي در سراسر جهان، بخش پشتيباني از محققين و پژوهش ها متوقف نشده است و گروهي به عنوان كارگزاران دانش كه در رأس آن ها كتابداران و اطلاع رسانان پزشكي قرار دارند، بي وقفه به ارائه ي خدمات اطلاعاتي مي پردازند.
كليد واژه ها:
چكيده لاتين :
Human being has always faced different critical situations and unpredictable events such as floods, earthquakes
and terrible infectious diseases such as cholera, plague, tuberculosis and influenza. However, it is believed that
the Coronavirus (Covid-19) has been the most shocking pandemic that led to destructive effects in all
geographical areas of the world and all aspect of terrestrial life. The governments increasingly enact
quarantines, curfews, closures, and other restrictive controls against the countries, citizens, and institutions and
deploy their facilities to tackle the infection and prevent its spread (1).
Amid the anxiety of lock downs and the cancellation of educational programs around the world, researcher
support has not stopped, and a group of knowledge brokers, led by librarians and medical informantionists, are
constantly providing information services. Information is an urgent and essential commodity in any crisis.
Therefore, librarians and information experts have to be always prepared to meet the information needs of
society and provide the users with access to information.
Hence, despite the lockdowns during the peak of covid-19 pandemic in Iran, the academic and hospital
librarians have been supporting the scientific community with their information services.
Besides collecting and managing information resources, the role of librarians has shifted to managing and
distributing knowledge, controlling information and knowledge pollution, and developing new capacities and
contexts for the flow of clean and clear information in critical situations. According to Muhammad Yousuf Ali
Associate librarian at Aga Khan University in Pakistan and his colleague Peter Gatiti, the role of librarians in
epidemics is categorized into three dimensions:
1. Promoting health awareness of public by disseminating information on preventive measures,
2. Supporting researchers and faculty members by providing information regarding the latest developments,
studies and the press
3. Meeting the basic needs of regular library users (2).
Yuvaraj (2020) also highlighted the same three tasks for librarians in Coronavirous crisis (3). Nonetheless, the
other aspects of these activities and services can still be addressed based on the specific experience of librarians
in critical epidemic conditions
