Summary: In Episode 61, Call Number with American Libraries talks with school librarians about how they changed their work and services during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, American Libraries Managing Editor Terra Dankowski speaks with three school library media specialists for Goochland County Public Schools in Virginia about how they bootstrapped a bookmobile to provide free books to kids learning remotely. Next, American Libraries Senior Editor and Call Number host Phil Morehart talks with Melissa Jacobs, director of New York City Schools’ Library System and the New York Department of Education’s Department of Library Services, about how librarians in the largest school district in the US operated during the pandemic.
