15 Jun 10 ALA Connect Rosters
Just a quick note to reassure everyone that rosters in ALA Connect will flip old committee members off and new ones on the night of June 30, 2010. This is important to think about for several reasons.
- You don’t have to make any manual changes in Connect in order for the transition to take place. Note, though, that the switch will only happen for committee members’ whose terms end on June 30 or begin on July 1.
- The switch will make incoming chairs admins for the committee workspace in Connect.
- Group members posting content from Annual to their Connect spaces will need to do so during their terms. In other words, if the person’s term ends at 11:59 p.m. on June 30, she’ll need to complete her work in the group before her term expires on July 1. Beginning July 1, she won’t have access to the “add” buttons in the Connect group to add content, and she won’t be able to read any “private” content posted for group members only.
Incoming chairs should read the [newly updated] Member Chair FAQ in the Help community on Connect. If you’re a staff liaison, please be sure to notify your groups about the roster change and point your new chairs to the FAQ.
Have further questions? Let us know!
Tags: annual, chairs, committees, rosters
Reader's Comments
What will happen to people who have joined a committee that allows outside people to just “watch”? Will they be flipped off also?
Hi, Lisa —
There are no Connect-only affiliations for ALA working groups since they all synchronize from our member database. Whatever is listed as the “observer’s” term in our member database (iMIS) will determine what happens to their affiliation with the group on July 1.
The group’s staff liaison can tell you what the term dates are for the person’s status in iMIS.
Make sense? Let me know if it’s clear as mud.
I think I get it – thanks! 🙂