Special selection on advances in information and knowledge management Recently, we have started selecting articles of similar themes for regular issues and writing editorials to guide readers better to the Library Hi Tech and other related literature, such as "Bibliometrics and literature review" Chiu and Ho (2021 in 39(4), 40(3) and 41(2), "Contemporary digital culture and reading" (Chiu and Ho, 2022b) in 40( 5), "Contemporary Social Media and Social Network Research" (Chiu and Ho, 2023b) in 41(3), and "40th anniversary: contemporary library research" (Chiu and Ho, 2022c) in 40( 6).COVID-19 has seriously affected many educational institutions, libraries and museums (