No holds: How the MSU Libraries website team made telework work

Authors

Julie D. Shedd, Mississippi State UniversityFollow
Troy DeRego, Mississippi State UniversityFollow
Brock Balducci, Mississippi State UniversityFollow
Josh Tucker, Mississippi State UniversityFollow

Abstract

In March 2020, work at libraries nationwide was upended as COVID safety measures closed public buildings and sent librarians home, often with little support or guidance as to what they could or should do during lockdown. Thankfully, the Digital Initiatives and Web Services team at Mississippi State University Libraries had already laid a foundation that made the transition to remote work quick and easy. From our home offices, we accomplished more work than we ever had in the library: a full redesign and deployment of the MSU Libraries website; usability testing and discussions with library faculty, staff, and student assistants; implemented a new helpdesk system for library departments; set up a new institutional repository platform and began migrating content; and even hired a new developer. In this session, we’ll explain how we made the transition to remote work, how we stayed busy and productive, whose support made it possible, and why we’d do it again in a heartbeat.

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Presentation delivered at Mississippi Library Association Virtual Annual Conference, October 13, 2021.

Publication Date

10-13-2021

College

University Libraries

Disciplines

Library and Information Science

Recommended Citation

Shedd, Julie D.; DeRego, Troy; Balducci, Brock; and Tucker, Josh, "No holds: How the MSU Libraries website team made telework work" (2021). University Libraries Publications and Scholarship. 37.
https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/ul-publications/37