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 searchable lists of vendors regularly used by university libraries in the United States.
Guidelines & Standards
A list of professional guidelines and standards members have helped create and maintain.
Library Assessment Repository
A one-stop shop for the sharing of assessment information, resources, and ideas for all areas of the library community including public, academic, and special libraries. The Repository will be an evolving resource that adapts to the community’s changing needs.
Library Privacy Guidelines
During 2015-2016, the Intellectual Freedom Committee approved several new privacy guidelines intended to assist librarians, libraries, schools and vendors to develop best practices for online privacy and data management and security.
OCLC WMS Sandbox Access
Any Core member can request access the sandbox to learn how to use OCLC's WorldShare Management Services (WMS) system and get hands-on practice at no additional cost. Even if your library doesn't use WMS, this unique learning opportunity gives library workers who want to learn new skills and systems the ability to work directly in a library management system.
Prices of U.S. and Foreign Published Materials
This resource appears annually in The Library & Book Trade Almanac published by Information Today. It is compiled by the members of the Library Materials Price Index Editorial Board, a subgroup of the Core Publications Coordination Committee, and is a rich source of data broken down by U.S. and foreign published materials as well as by the material types (periodicals/serials and books).