2008-10 Cataloging User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Discussion on global changes to bibliographic or holding records, automatic creation of holding and item records, local holding records, creation of ADM (administrative) record. and workday planning. Included an additional discussion of ebook MARC records.
Meetings that took place include: Acquisitions/Serials Subsystem Business Meeting, Cataloging Subsystem Business Meeting, Reference Subsystem Business Meeting, Systems Subsystem Business Meeting, Circulation Subsystem Business Meeting, and ILL Subsystem Business Meeting.
2008-10 Reference and Instruction User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Discussion on reconfiguring OPAC display order, adding 880 MARC fields for alternate characters to edit-doc-999 for display in OPAC. Bobby Bothman would like them to appear in main record display. Examples are: ocm138759778 ocm184986922 ocm36661830 ocm60609011.
2008-10 User Group Meeting ILL/CIRC Overdues Tables Breakout Session
Description
This breakout session will focus on the setup in tab18 and tab32 so your library can send circulation overdue notices to your patrons who have a loan for an ILL request. Also how to send notices to a borrowing library will be talked about. Presenters/Moderators were Susan Dueis and Sonja Eilertson.
2008-10 System User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Discussion included LDAP authentication, planning for workday, and a motion was approved that the Systems Group or Reports group present a webinar in January that identifies reports that will be useful to prepare the ALS survey from NCES and perhaps present a second webinar to discuss problems encountered.
2008-10 User Group Meeting Breakout Session Tag Fields Needed for Serials Holdings Records
Description
PALS has recently sent a test LHR file to OCLC for Inver Hills Community College. The PALS office was able to pull the necessary holding information and fix certain tag fields in the file for this test load. The data is only fixed in the file. We are not able to fix the data in the holding record. This session will inform libraries on the correct data needed in their serial holding records. Libraries can then clean up their records and also understand how to create new serial holding records with the correct tag information. This is documentation that was used for this breakout session.
2008-10 User Group Meeting Breakout Session Exporting LHR (Local Holding Records) to OCLC
Description
Summary: PALS has recently sent a test LHR file to OCLC for Inver Hills Community College. The PALS office was able to pull the necessary holding information and fix certain tag fields in the file for this test load. The data is only fixed in the file. We are not able to fix the data in the holding record. This session will inform libraries on the correct data needed in their serial holding records. Libraries can then clean up their records and also understand how to create new serial holding records with the correct tag information. This is documentation related to the presentation,
2008-10 Interlibrary Loan User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Discussions during meeting included direct borrowing, revisions to policy and procedures statement on ILL (interlibrary loan), changes to interlibrary loan form, the PALS report, and workday planning. Motions were made and passed. Included amendment to the policy and procedure statement by MnPALS Libraries. Add Minneapolis Public Library at end of first sentence. Seconded by Joan and motion passed. An additional motion made: to remove asterisk from mandatory fields and add the phrase “Missing or incorrect information may delay filling your request.“
2008-10 User Group Meeting Inventory Management Breakout Session
Description
Summary: ADMs differ on how they want to conduct their inventory; i.e. online manual or batch. This session will touch on three areas: 1) central server site issues ranging from providing the file from the alephe/scratch or data/scratch directories to configuring the Shelf Report Number (SRN), 2) an ADM library's experiences with the online manual inventory using a wireless laptop, and 3) an ADM library's experiences using the batch inventory in conjunction with an RFID reader. We will try to leave time for a question and answer session. These are documentation on inventory processes from Minnesota State University-Mankato.