Συνεργατικές πρωτοβουλίες υποστήριξης των πληροφοριακών αναγκών των χρηστών τον καιρό της πανδημίας covid-19: η περίπτωση του Δικτύου Οικονομικών Βιβλιοθηκών (ΔΙ.Ο.ΒΙ.)

As the global librarian community seeks strategies to engage libraries to play a vital role in sustainable development during the pandemic, libraries are trying to fulfill their obligation to promote information, support research and meet their users’ basic and special information needs. HE.LI.N., a cooperative library network which has been developed in Greece during the last decade, took the appropriate initiatives and actions in order to immediately adapt to the new reality and support the information needs of its audience. Social distancing and remote work challenges changed everyone's daily life and the present work will present the difficulties that information scientists faced and their efforts to efficiently respond to the new reality. The network’s actions as well as the evaluation surveys conducted afterwards, will be presented. Even though the planning of the network’s short-term future was directly affected by the constraints and difficulties created by the pandemic, nevertheless the network took advantage of the new challenges to explore and adopt new approaches and perspectives in the collaboration amongst its members. Furthermore, the current work aims to bring forward the concerns of its members regarding the limitations caused by the pandemic and to search for feasible solutions.