 This year, during National Library Week, University Libraries wanted to honor our faculty and staff who work behind the scenes to make accessing our electronic resources possible. For National Library Workers Day on April 21, 2020, we asked some of them to share what they do, why it's important, and how they are coping with the new realities of working from home and social distancing. This video is a compilation of their responses. Hello, my name is Brenda Lewis. I am the Library Electronic Resource Specialist of the University Libraries. My job entails enabling the electronic resources, which include electronic books, electronic journals, and databases. I've tried to take advantage of some of the resources that we have in the library, as far as some of the films and videos that we have. My name is Lindsay Lowry. I am the Electronic Resources Librarian. Right now, all of our faculty members and our students are all working from home, and it's more important than ever to make sure that all of our professors and all of our students can get to what it is that they need to get to. And I work on a team of four people, and it is our job, the four of us, to make sure that you have access to everything that you need in order to get your school work done. All I'm doing right now is taking on new recipes, trying to find new fun things to cook in the kitchen. We are also weekly having Zoom parties with our family. Hi, my name is Gabi Marks. I'm the ILL landing coordinator at the University of Alabama Library, and we're working with five staff members on IRR requests, which includes landing, borrowing, and document delivery. We are the ones who are looking for it, finding it, and providing it. We do a lot of Zoom meetings and the same with my friends and family, like we're all worried, but we're coping and we're hanging in there. We'll get through this. I'm Donna Minor. I'm the Circulation Services Manager for the Branch Library. If a patron has a question about a fine on their record and they're having trouble registering for summer classes, they can still contact us. We still have the ability to go in and look at their record and get the problem resolved for them. But one of the really great services we've instituted is reference chat, and all of the branch employees are participating in that. When I log into work at eight o'clock every morning and I, for the first period of time, I check my email. There are certain things that I do. I have a scheduled meeting at nine o'clock and I try to keep my day as normal as possible. My name's Jacob Robertson and I'm the Institutional Repository Specialist here at the University of Alabama. And what I do is I conduct the copyright research. What the IR does is it allows the opportunity for those who don't have the means to access these scholarly works to go onto ir.ua.edu and access thousands and thousands of research articles. I've basically been trying to pick up new hobbies that I put down a long time ago, like playing piano, for example. Or maybe I'll dig into some artwork. I got this new drawing tablet that I'm trying to, you know, learn the ins and outs of, have Photoshop, courtesy of University of Alabama OIT Department. Hi, my name is Catherine Smith and I am the Systems and Technical Processes Librarian at the University of Alabama Libraries. So my main responsibilities are to keep the systems that power the library running. So typically that means the software that we use to power circulation functions and purchasing of both print and digital resources. But that also involves the mechanisms by which we provide off-campus access to our licensed digital content. So to deal with a lot of the pressure of working from home and social distancing, I have been doing a lot of gardening. The weather has been fantastic. So I and my spouse have been getting outdoors, we've been going out on walks. Hi, I'm Carol Wyatt and I am the Technology Development Librarian. And what that means is I write and maintain the code for the library websites. It would be really hard to access our amazing electronic resources without a portal to get to them. And that is what the website really is, is a portal to all of those resources. So there is, I'm not alone, I'm just one person on a team of people who maintain that website and make sure that the information is safe and that all of our patron information is safe. Last week we set up the Ask a Librarian Chat feature that's available on the website currently. We've been playing a lot of lawn games, Frisbee and Croquet, just so we can get outside and enjoy the magnificent weather that we've been having.