Oral history interview with Meg Allison

Oral history interview with Meg Allison

Meg Allison discusses her response to the COVID-19 pandemic as a U-32 librarian and a member of the Vermont School Library Association's executive board. She describes her role in implementing a system for delivering and collecting books alongside existing the bus deliveries of school breakfasts and lunches as well as her strategies for connecting with students during the library's closure. She also shares her impressions of the impact of remote and blended learning on library programming, including the example of a program planned with the Clemmons Family Farm in Shelburne, Vermont, for Poetry Month. She processed her own experiences during the pandemic through journaling and other writing and shares one of her original poems.

Meg Allison was a librarian at U-32 Middle & High School in East Montpelier, Vermont, during the COVID pandemic. She began at U-32 around 2015 and previously worked in both public and school libraries, including at Kellogg Hubbard Library in Montpelier, Vermont, and the library at Moretown School in Moretown, Vermont.

Sponsored by the Institute of Museum and Library Services MA-251676-OMS-22.

2024-03-12

Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project

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Permission to publish material from the Collecting COVID-19: A Vermont Story Project may be obtained from the Vermont Historical Society.

Bosek, Marcia Sue DeWolf

Allison, Meg

41 min., 49 sec.

Vermont Historical Society Library, 60 Washington Street, Barre, VT 05641-4212