Accelerating the digital shift: how a global pandemic has created an environment for rapid change in academic libraries.

During the 21st century academic libraries and librarians have led the way in developing and delivering digital library services but for the most part this has been supplementary to the physical library services that we have been responsible for and that certainly academic library users have demanded. At the time of writing, Autumn 2021, the United Kingdom, and indeed many other areas of the world appear to be getting back to some sort of normality after eighteen months of living and working through the global Covid-19 pandemic. [Extracted from the article]