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Digital library and innovation: The acceleration prompted by the pandemic

Anna Maria Tammaro
Editor in Chief Digital library Perspectives (Emerald)
and
Professor
Digital Library Learning (DILL)
University of Parma
Italy
Email: annamaria.tammaro@unipr.it

Abstract

The evolution of digital libraries is the result of an innovation movement that gives them a
specific dynamic and produces two main effects: empower users and increase digital inclusion.
Rapid adoption of digital libraries by people in isolation at home, prompted by the COVID-19
pandemic, has accelerated the digital transformation and will reshape the digital library
services.

Biography
Anna Maria Tammaro is the Editor in Chief of Digital library Perspectives (Emerald). Her
research interests are in digital libraries, internazionalisation of LIS education and e-learning.
Until 2018 she has been teaching in "DILL International Master Digital Library Learning" Joint
Master with Tallinn University and the University of Parma. She has been involved in the
internationalization of LIS education since 2000, coordinating the international Master
Information Studies (MAIS) with the University of Northumbria and teaching in the Writing
Heritage in a Digital Environment (WHIDE), a joint Master Degree offered the University of
Zadar, the University of Osijek, and Parma University. Currently she is a member of the Board
of ASIS&T. In ASIS&T she has been Secretary of SIG DL and Secretary of ASIS&T European
Chapter.