Abstract: Library Regulations for General Colleges has no specific provisions on emergency services
university libraries should offer. Neither is there any corresponding researches in China and abroad on
how to guarantee information resources in the time of serious epidemic outbreak. It is urgent for university
libraries to think about and study the crisis management during the novel coronavirus epidemic in 2019
and 2020, so as to establish an effective emergency information resources guarantee system in university
libraries and to cope with more ever-changing information service environment in the future. Through
literature review and website research, and based on the service report of university libraries in all provinces
and cities in China during the epidemic period, as published on the website of the University Library
Information Work Steering Committee of the Ministry of Education, this paper explores the main content,
points out the existing problems of emergency information resources guarantee system in five aspects,
namely, emergency management, resource service, network technology service platform security and
librarian expertise. Considering the current situation and in view of exemplary cases of resource services
during the epidemic, it also puts forth five proposals to address the aforementioned issues respectively. 

Key words: Epidemic prevention and control, New coronavirus pneumonia, University libraries, Emergency support, Information resources