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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">COVID-19/CORONAVIRUS INFORMATION TO EVALUATE<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 8pt;line-height:107%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:107%">Articles this week about COVID-19 range from "Keep
calm and wash your hands," to “It is better to get through this OMG moment
now rather than later.” Here are some for your consideration and evaluation. Libraries
can be a source of valid information and a hub for communities coming together
to support each other. Perhaps someone could make a LibGuide. Do you have any
ideas? If so, please discuss and share links to
information you have evaluated that might help others. Also, if you think any
of these sources are bad, please let us know. As librarians, we can choose
which information will best inform and unite our communities to weather this
reality together.<span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:normal;margin:0in 0in 8pt"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Oregon Health Officials Confirm First Case Of Novel
Coronavirus <a href="https://tinyurl.com/tkncmt7" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/tkncmt7</a><span></span></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">ALA recommends this article: How to prepare for coronavirus in the U.S.
(Spoiler: Not sick? No need to wear a mask.) <a href="https://tinyurl.com/st8slk8" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/st8slk8</a><span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Center for Disease Control COVID-19 page: <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html</a><span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">What Public Libraries Need To Know About the Coronavirus <a href="https://tinyurl.com/vwyzj27" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/vwyzj27</a><span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Here is one from Australia: Past Time to Tell the Public: “It Will
Probably Go Pandemic, and We Should All Prepare Now” <a href="https://tinyurl.com/vcsppvm" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/vcsppvm</a><span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">From the article, "Suggesting things people can do to prepare for
a possible hard time to come doesn’t just get them better prepared
logistically. It also helps get them better prepared emotionally. It helps get
them through the Oh My God (OMG) moment everyone needs to have, and needs to
get through, preferably without being accused of hysteria.... It is better to
get through this OMG moment now rather than later."<span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">March 25<sup>th</sup> NLM webinar: <a href="https://tinyurl.com/vk2h7lc" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/vk2h7lc</a><span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Stat News is offering it’s coverage of COVID-19 for free. <a href="https://www.statnews.com/tag/coronavirus/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.statnews.com/tag/coronavirus/</a><span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">They are covering the coronavirus misinformation “infodemic.” <a href="https://tinyurl.com/v8zh2r7" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/v8zh2r7</a><span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-titledefault"><span style="font-weight:normal">Escaping Pandora’s Box — Another Novel Coronavirus <a href="https://tinyurl.com/vofzerd" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://tinyurl.com/vofzerd</a><span></span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span class="gmail-titledefault"><span style="font-weight:normal">From the article, “</span></span><span style="font-weight:normal">As we push ahead, we
should take heart in the Hesiod version of the Pandora myth, in which Pandora
managed to prevent a single escape: “Only Hope was left …, she remained under
the lip of the jar, and did not fly away.”<span></span></span></span></font></h1><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">
</span></font><h1 style="margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">This is not peer-reviewed but you can evaluate it. </span><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline">https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/</a><span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal"></span><br><span style="font-weight:normal"></span></span></font></h1><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:normal">Keep Calm and Wash Your Hands Gif<span></span></span><span style="font-weight:normal"><a href="https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/images/keepcalm.gif" style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"> https://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/images/keepcalm.gif</a><br></span></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Thank you for those of you that helped create this list. Take what you need and leave the rest.</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Best wishes,</span></font></div><div><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Charles Wood, MSLIS</span></font><br></div><div><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;font-weight:normal"><span></span></span></div>
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