- TitelReaching out : How the pandemic impacted knowledge production and dissemination in India
- Person
- VerfasserangabenSaurav Kumar Rai
- Erscheinungsjahr2022
- SeitenSeite 471 - 476
- IllustrationenIllustrationen
- Gesamtwerk
- AnmerkungenErschienen in: Technology and culture ; Volume 63, 2022/2
Abstract
The unprecedented spread of the COVID-19 pandemic compelled academic institutions and public repositories worldwide to come up with novel ideas in order to keep themselves functional. Adoption of new technology often constituted the fulcrum of such institutional responses. This article delves into some of the measures adopted by the Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, one of India's premier research institutes in social sciences. While doing so, it delineates a few anecdotal references from the past as well. The article emphasizes that the technological shifts in the wake of COVID-19 have far-reaching consequences so far as dissemination of knowledge through seminars and access to primary sources are concerned.