Role of Librarians and Medical Information Experts in Response to Covid-19 in Iran

Role of Librarians and Medical Information Experts in Response to Covid-19 in Iran Nasrin Aliasghari Research Center of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Tabriz University of Medicine Science, Tabriz, Iran http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3993-9758

Human being has always faced different critical situations and unpredictable events such as floods, earthquakes and terrible infectious diseases such as cholera, plague, tuberculosis and influenza. However, it is believed that the Coronavirus (Covid-19) has been the most shocking pandemic that led to destructive effects in all geographical areas of the world and all aspect of terrestrial life. The governments increasingly enact quarantines, curfews, closures, and other restrictive controls against the countries, citizens, and institutions and deploy their facilities to tackle the infection and prevent its spread (1). Amid the anxiety of lock downs and the cancellation of educational programs around the world, researcher support has not stopped, and a group of knowledge brokers, led by librarians and medical informantionists, are constantly providing information services. Information is an urgent and essential commodity in any crisis. Therefore, librarians and information experts have to be always prepared to meet the information needs of society and provide the users with access to information.
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