Core Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries Interest Group

I would like to give some administrative updates that related to the change. As you will remember when our ALCTS Interest Group was reviewed to become a CORE Interest Group. CORE decided that Technical Services Directors of Large Research Libraries is better suited to be a Committee rather than a working Group within the new CORE structure. The reason for this is that Interest Groups in CORE are public and open to any one,  including non-ALA members. Since our group has a defined membership criteria and regular membership reviews, CORE decided that it would be best for us to continue on as a Committee, to which we agreed this past fall. 

We have a new landing page on the CORE website:

We have a new  page on the ALA CORE Connect site:

And we have a new e-mail list ALA-CoreMCTSDLRL@ConnectedCommunity.org 

Some questions have come up about the use of the new e-mail address. For those of you who are also members of CCDO, you will know that their mailing list on the ConnectedCommunity.org is public, all discussions taking place there can be seen by any one and anyone can join the Group via Connect. They have opted to have a private list hosted by a member institution. 

Since we are a committee, we are not required to have the same public accessibility and we are set up differently. First, new e-mail list is private. While discussions and attachments sent to the list are archived on our Connect site, their content is only visible to committee members who must log-in with proper authentication to see the discussion list, non-members cannot access discussions on our Connect site.   Non-members can only see our membership, and any announcement or events that we would like to post.  

With regard to our meetings,  as a committee we can chose to have either public or private meeting.  So for our virtual meeting in Midwinter we can announce the meeting and open it to the public as we have in the past, we do however have the option of meeting privately as need. Both approaches are supported by CORE. There is one significant change regarding Annual in person meetings. CORE will no longer supply audio visual support for in person meetings for either its committees or interest groups. All meetings requiring audio visual support will need to submit proposals to the programming committee o we will need to think through how this will affect our Annual meetings. 

Pleas let me know if you have any questions or concerns. 

Warm regards, 

Nina