The Communications Committee's charge is to facilitate awareness of ULS and its professional development activities and programs through a variety of means, including the ULS website and e-mail distribution list and social media channels, and to facilitate communication between ULS and its members, among the ULS committees, and with ACRL, ALA, and other organizations.
The Communications Committee usually has twelve to eighteen members. See current committee roster.
The Communications Committee on ALA Connect: Post and find agendas, minutes, and committee happenings.
Please note that you will need to sign in to ALA Connect using your regular ALA web site username and password to access ACRL ULS committee content.
This committee uses several digital communication portals (including social media) to accomplish its mission:
To update content on your committee's LibGuide, email the current ULS Procedures Committee chair with your email address, the page name and website address, and the desired changes, and those changes will be made for you.
The committee chair should divide members into subgroups or teams of individuals who wish to work on a specific portal, with one person designated as lead for each. Ideally, most portals should have at least two to four people working on them so that no one is burdened with the sole responsibility of administering, posting to, and monitoring a portal 100% of the time (exceptions: ULS ALA Connect site does not need an admin). Team members can decide among themselves how they wish to divide responsibilities for administering, posting to, and monitoring a portal (e.g., the Facebook team may have three members and responsibility for the site rotates bi-weekly among them). Optional: teams or individuals can rotate among portals every six months or annually if they wish to have more variety or experience in administering different types of media.
The committee chair should maintain a document online (e.g., on ALA Connect or Google Drive) where all committee members have access that outlines, at a minimum, the following information for each communication portal:
This document should also contain marketing and promotion guidelines and tips as well as account usernames and passwords, and the committee chair should update it as needed.
The committees use this online form to gather requests for promotion of committee and discussion group activities.
The Communications Committee has a shared Google Drive. Contact the current Co-Chairs for access. See current committee roster.
