The COVID-19 Pandemic & Inequities in Access to School Librarians

By Keith Curry Lance & Debra E. Kachel

The COVID-19 Pandemic & Inequities in Access to School Librarians A SLIDE Special Report 1 Keith Curry Lance & Debra E. Kachel The COVID-19 pandemic has been wreaking economic, social, and political havoc globally since its onset in early 2020. One of the sectors of society affected most immediately and profoundly was public education. In March 2020—about three-quarters of the way through the 2019-20 school year—most U.S. school districts had to shut down in-person learning with very little warning, and spent the remainder of that year and the following one scrambling to put in place the technology infrastructure, logistical changes, and staff redeployments necessary for public schools to function during 2020-21. As a result, in most places, the public-school environment of 2020-21 bore scant resemblance to the pre-pandemic environment of 2018-19.

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