Schools and other businesses temporarily closed as the rates of COVID-19 increased in March and April 2020, but libraries and other information organizations did not quickly follow suit. Instead, some libraries remained opened or moved to a seemingly less interactive method of public library engagement, such as curbside service. In this editorial, I will introduce the #ProtectLibraryWorkers hashtag, with its roots on Twitter, and how librarians, library workers, library and information science (LIS) students, and others used it to push the closure of libraries for the welfare, mental health, employment, and vaccination of workers across the country and the world. This article shows the force, perseverance, and unity of the LIS workforce. When COVID-19 (CDC 2020) arrived within the United States, libraries initially responded in a number of ways—by expanding hours, reducing hours, maintaining hours, opening libraries without staff, and other methods. In response to library closures (or delayed closures or nonclosures), budget cuts, and layoffs as a result of the pandemic, librarians and library workers followed and promoted a few hashtags on “library Twitter.” In this article, I primarily focus on #ProtectLibraryWorkers, with COVID protection as the main goal.

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我们呼吁#ProtectLibraryWorkers：在 COVID-19 大流行期间为图书馆工作人员呐喊助威

随着 2020 年 3 月和 2020 年 4 月 COVID-19 发病率的上升，学校和其他企业暂时关闭，但图书馆和其他信息机构并没有迅速效仿。取而代之的是，一些图书馆仍然开放，或者转向了一种看似互动性较差的公共图书馆参与方式，例如路边服务。在这篇社论中，我将介绍 #ProtectLibraryWorkers 标签，它起源于 Twitter，以及图书馆员、图书馆工作人员、图书馆和信息科学 (LIS) 学生和其他人如何使用它来推动图书馆关闭，以促进福利、心理健康、就业和全国和世界各地工人的疫苗接种。本文展示了 LIS 员工的力量、毅力和团结。当 COVID-19 (CDC 2020) 抵达美国境内时，图书馆最初以多种方式做出回应——通过延长营业时间、减少营业时间、维持营业时间、在没有人员的情况下开放图书馆以及其他方法。为应对大流行导致的图书馆关闭（或延迟关闭或不关闭）、预算削减和裁员，图书馆员和图书馆工作人员在“图书馆推特”上关注并推广了一些主题标签。在本文中，我主要关注#ProtectLibraryWorkers，并将 COVID 保护作为主要目标。