THE ROLE OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS AND THE OER PLATFORM IN THE PANDEMIC LEARNING CONDITIONS
THE ROLE OF ACADEMIC LIBRARIANS AND THE OER PLATFORM IN THE PANDEMIC LEARNING CONDITIONS

Summary/Abstract: Seeing how the changes and restrictions of professional activity brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic hadn’t essentially altered the librarian role, but rather the manner in which their professional mission is executed, this paper questions the role of academic librarians in the educational process of the faculty units in Sarajevo during the pandemic. The research encompasses a survey based on the sample of 30 fully-fledged faculty member libraries of the University of Sarajevo whose results, along with the theoretical foundations of the research subject, will serve the purpose of providing a hypothesis verification, as well as strategic recommendations. Keeping in mind the professional task of librarians as a support to the learning process and research, this paper begins with the hypothesis that the librarians of the University of Sarajevo organizational units are not involved enough in the process of teaching, learning, creating or the posting of educational material on the open educational resource (OER) platforms. The importance of these results lies in the better understanding of the possibilities which academic librarians (due to their emphasized role in the process of research and scientific work in relation to primary and high school libraries, whose funds mainly consist of obligatory textbook literature or required reading editions) can provide and improve upon when it comes to the question of professional responsibility in the pandemic learning conditions.

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