ABSTRACT
In this contribution, three instruction librarians from three different American-styled liberal arts institutions outside the United States (Morocco, Italy, and France) share the impact of the pandemic on their work. They will reflect on their local experiences and the educational challenges they were confronted with, as well as how their responses varied according to their cultural settings. Although the three institutions are similar in many respects, their local characters required different ways to respond to the critical situation created by the pandemic. The three authors will reflect on how the situation also offered possibilities for new initiatives and collaborations between librarians and faculty to enrich the student learning experience in the classroom, and they will describe how these collaborative efforts were developed and put into practice. In conclusion, they will discuss how the role of librarians might be impacted in the long term, and they will address the necessity of establishing and formalizing new roles for librarians, especially reflecting on whether these new roles should remain even after the end of the pandemic.
