The 2012 PALS Report includes all Aleph Subsystem Reports, news relating to PALS products and services, and recent activities of the various Task Forces and Office Teams. Highlights include updates to many reports and tables, the MnPALS Plus mobile website, and a new web interface for patron booking.
2012-10 User Group Meeting General Session Question Results
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2012 User Group Meeting attendees were asked whether they thought "the General Session was worth the time spent." This graph shows that most agreed that the General Session was valuable.
2012-10 User Group Meeting Lunch/Networking Question Results
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2012 User Group Meeting attendees were asked whether they thought "Lunch/Networking was worth the time spent." The majority of attendees agreed that Lunch/Networking was valuable.
Presentation slides for the Report of the Executive Director to the Annual Meeting of the Consortium of MnPALS Libraries. Introduces new PALS staff, topics include supporting the life cycle of knowledge from creation to curation (research data, Islandora, open access publishing, library management systems, discovery systems, DAM, institutional repositories. Also covers strategic plan goals, library management systems update, Evergreen, future ILS, web scale discovery, and VuFind.
2013 10 User Group Meeting Breakout-Student Outcomes
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2013 Fall User Group Meeting Breakout Session: Library Use and Undergraduate Student Outcomes: New Evidence for Students’ Retention and Academic Success
The report describes four User Council meetings from fall 2012 to fall 2013. Topics discussed at meetings include planning workdays and the 2013 User Group Meeting, web-scale discovery, and ILS options.
2013-10 User Group Meeting Library Resources Normandale
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The presentation covers library resources and services that are available for Normandale Partnership Students. It discusses the opening of Normandale's Partnership Center and how the library is helping students transition into partnership studies.
2013-10 User Group Meeting Futures Interest Group Report
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The report lists the Libraries Futures Interest Group's meetings and conference calls from fall 2012 to fall 2013. Topics of discussion included e-readers and e-books, linked data, social media, mobile apps, and planning future meetings.
The document lists improvements to existing reports and new reports created by the Reports Work Group from fall 2012 to fall 2013. New reports include an ILL Lending report, a cash transactions report, and a report containing information about unfilled journal requests.
2013-10 User Group Meeting Executive Committee Report
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The report describes four Executive Committee meetings from fall 2012 to fall 2013. Topics discussed at the meetings ranged from the MnPALS Circulation Policy to web-scale discovery.