Welcome GODORT Technology Committee members!
This guide will help you update and maintain the ALA GODORT webpages.
To prepare for your work on this committee, read the Technology Committee Chapter in the GODORT Policies and Procedures Manual (PPM).
The current ALA website is built using Drupal. To request access to the training site, email: help@ala.org.
After completing the training exercises, email help@ala.org to request access to the ALA GODORT webpage.
GOOGLE - COMMUNICATING with GODORT TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE
The GODORT Technology Committee's GMAIL account is GODORTtechnology@gmail.com. This account is used to communicate changes to the GODORT pages, submit committee meeting minutes, and any other concerns to the committee.
LOGIN
The Technology Committee Chair is the keeper of the login password and shares this with committee members. Other committee members share responsibility of maintaining the Gmail inbox and other content saved in the committee's Google drive.
SECURITY
Google's security requirement for access is to enter a code sent to the account owner's email or phone. Committee members arrange a time to access the site so that the chair can send them the access code. This must be done for each device used to access this Google account.
DELEGATES
All committee members are made "delegates" of the Gmail account. This allows them to access and post email from any device without the need of verifying the device with a security code.
GOOGLE DRIVE
The Google account also contains the working documents of the committee.
CONTINUITY OF ACCESS
The outgoing committee chair will transfer the recovery phone number for this account to the new committee chair at the beginning of the new chair's term (generally after ALA Annual).
The GODORT chair manages access to LibGuides.
All committee chairs will be designated as LibGuides Admins in order to be able to add images to the site.
(S)he will grant access to this platform.