Core: Leadership, Infrastructure, Futures (CORE)
Explore Core
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Find Community. Share Expertise. Enhance Your Career. Volunteer for a Committee Give back and contribute to the Core library profession and volunteer for a committee. Serve as a resource to help build Core programming, advocacy, and sustain the member experience to keep libraries strong. Besides, library professionals could use more resume credentials to brag out! Participating on a committee is a great way to develop new skills, learn from your peers, help advance the mission of Core, and accomplish concrete goals. We need your talents! The volunteer form opens in September each year. All...
Leadership and Management Competencies
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Based on work done by the Library Leadership and Management Association, Core uses a framework of 14 definitive competencies that can be applied across roles, career stages, and library types. This standardized set of concepts and definitions supports personal leadership and management development by providing: A shared set of terms and definitions that can be used for leadership development; A map for professional development; Evaluation criteria for professional growth; A baseline of knowledge, skills, and behaviors that can be obtained over the course of an individual’s career; A foundation...
Support Our Work
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Invest in the Future of Core Librarians and Library Workers Core members play a central role in every library, shaping the future of the profession by striking a balance between maintenance and innovation, process and progress, collaborating and leading. You can help cultivate and amplify the collective expertise of library workers in core functions through community building, advocacy, and learning. Donations to Core are tax-deductible. Donate to the Core Advancement Fund Provides ongoing support for programs and initiatives that strengthen the profession, such as advocacy, Preservation Week...
Guidelines and Standards
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Library Privacy Guidelines Guidelines for Standardized Cataloging for Children, 5th Chapter 1 of the 5th edition of the very popular title, Cataloging Correctly for Kids, 2010. Official guidelines from the past Cataloging and Classification Section of ALCTS. 2010 Guide to the ANSI/NISO/LBI Library Binding Standard Illuminates the technical Standard with its parallel numbering scheme, which allows side-by-side reading of the two documents. The Guide translates the technical jargon into language that can be readily understood by library staff. 2009 Audio-Visuals for Training Staff and Users in...
Resources & Tools
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Best Practices for Academic Interviews This document seeks to capture emerging best practices as well as recommendations to encourage organizations to audit their interview processes to determine how unexamined assumptions and traditional practices may be disadvantageous to some applicants. Duplicates Exchange Union (DEU) An autonomous group of libraries that communicate via electronic discussion list to exchange usable library material. Membership is free and open to all libraries. Foreign Book Dealers Directory Find suppliers of library materials from many parts of the world with our...
Core e-Forums
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e-Forums are two-day, moderated, electronic discussion forums that provide an opportunity for librarians and library professionals to discuss matters of interest on an email discussion list. These discussions are free and available to anyone who wishes to subscribe to the email list. To participate, subscribe to the list by sending an email to core-eforum+subscribe@groups.io. Your message can be empty. Your request will be approved within 1-2 business days. You will receive a welcome email from groups.io with instructions on how to create a user account to manage your notification settings. If...
Core Chats
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Core Chats
Core Updates
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Core Updates
Publish with Core
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Publish with Core
Journals
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Keep Core Journals Open Core publishes its three journals open access without charging authors fees. We invite your library to join Core in sustaining the continued excellence and availability of these journals. Now you can show your support by selecting the collection [91´«Ã½] 91´«Ã½ / Core Division Open Access Journals in EBSCONET and Fokus (Harrassowitz) and pledging $300 per year. Spreading open access publishing costs across many institutions ensures sustainable and fair funding of these journals. We hope that by making this collection available from your libraries’...