Resources & Tools
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.
Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Resources
A list of free resources and tools explicitly related to access & equity, building & operations, leadership & management, metadata & collections, preservation, and technology.
Find information about core competencies for various library professionals.
Federated Authentication Resources
Resources to help librarians and library workers discuss benefits and issues around federated authentication and the related Seamless Access (SA) project.
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.
Find on-demand recordings of webinars and conference events, free for Core members.
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 Consultants Directory
A searchable directory of independent library consultants.
Core Sandboxes
Any Core member can request access to a sandbox to get hands-on practice at no additional cost. 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. Core currently offers sandbox access for OCLC's WorldShare Management Services and ByWater's Koha.
Find surveys, reports, and data provided by the Preservation Statistics Survey created to document and analyze the preservation activities of cultural heritage institutions in the United States.
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).
Core has their own LibGuides site where committees and Core members can create and publish online guides to provide resources and information to their members.
