As we welcome our UT Southwestern community back to the Health Sciences Digital Library & Learning Center space in May 2021, we’d like to reflect on what we have done to make it safer for you to come back over the last year. The Library Staff of 16 spent a combined total of over 2,250 hours on COVID-19 related projects in the past year. Our list of contributions is as follows:

• Created the comprehensive COVID-19 Library Guide.
• Conducted COVID-19 mediated searches with related clinical, research, and administrative purposes.
• Created, maintained, and performed daily searches to maintain the Campus’s COVID-19 Funding Opportunities directory.
• Selected and created the Library Reservation System for safe studying and contact tracing.
• Instructed CME class related to searching for COVID-19 topics.
• Processed Interlibrary Loan requests with safety precautions.
• Planned and implemented the closing of the physical North and South Libraries and then the opening of South Campus Library, including publishing the UT Southwestern Library Re-Opening Guide.
• Planned and made necessary changes to workflows and staff remote set-ups to allow full continuation of research and instructional services.
• Had multiple discussions and made decisions for additional resources related to COVID-19 for inclusion the Library Guide.
• Learned and networked about handling COVID-19 in medical libraries via professional organizations, webinars, and conferences.

Bitty Babu, the Library’s Database Analyst, complied our COVID-19 service hours and provided the following visualizations for our efforts.