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Title: 2007 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Two motions of "thank you" for Becky Bell and for Linda Richter were approved. Todd Digby introduced the new Director of MnPALS, Stephen Elfstrand. Mark Scipioni has been brought in as a consultant from Minnesota Department of Administration. Motions passed from PALS Centralization survey report: to customize XSL forms and to upgrade forms customization from version to version. Motion passed: to consolidate PALS e-mail lists. Motion passed: to accept Version 18 draft project plan document. Motion failed: have a steering committee be involved as an advisory board to any staffing issues relating to services provided by the PALS office. Stephen Elfstrand demoed the discovery tool that Al Rykhus has been working with (based on PRIMO open source). By consensus agreed that Stephen will pursue the development/exploration of open source.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2007-09-10
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2007 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. Group consensus was that focus should be on upgrading to version 18, prioritizing of the most needed changes and fixes, and relegating outstanding problem tickets to the back burner. Recommended that PALS close the Aleph-Migration listserv. Recommended creating a new electronic list devoted to maintenance and system alerts. Motion passed: that customization and upgrading of XSL forms, and assisting with table changes during version upgrades should be priorities for centralization of tasks to the PALS office. Motion passed: to recommend to the Executive Committee that the PALS Draft Project Plan be approved. Motion passed: to recommend to Executive Committee that Booking be investigated as soon after the version 18 upgrade as possible.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2007-09-10
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2007 04 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion Passed: to continue consortium meetings with MnPALS staff and request that the EC look at the governance structure and priorities in the fall.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2007-04-26
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2007 03 Annual Meeting Minutes
Description: Annual Meeting Minutes. Fees for 2008 were approved. Introduction to Strategic Planning Discussion. Small group breakouts regarding Current Situations and Trends. Small group breakouts for Vision and Action Planning.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2007-03-22
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2007 02 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. Keynote Speakers for Spring User Group Meeting: Shane Nackerud (UM) and Cody Hansen (UM). Task Forces Policy Document Motion: Insert “Every effort will be made to insure representation by size and type of library” after the first sentence of #4 [Membership]. Motion: change wording from “When” to “As_ in 7.b. Motion: accept Task Forces Policy document as amended and forward to the Executive Committee. Motion: The User Council requests that the Executive Committee identify 7 possible core activities for the consortium to pursue for the next 10 to 15 years. Motion: The User Council needs to identify and provide an appropriate forum to continue the discussion of strategic planning. Motion: Refer the Vision Statement that came out of the strategic planning process to the Executive Committee for revision. Motion: Recommend to the Executive Committee to assign 2 people to work with 2 people from the UC (Bothmann and Ewing) to edit and present a final draft Governance Structure document. Motion: Allow the MARC Task Force to move forward with a policy recommendation.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2007-02-01
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2007 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: to accept the recommended 7% increase for PALS fees in 2008. Motion passed: to accept the proposed increase and additions to the Participant Library Charges.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2007-02-01
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2006 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. Outside firm has been hired to update the PALS Web site.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2006-09-07
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2006 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Deans/Directors/Coordinators will go by the name of Administrators & Coordinators.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2006-09-07
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2006 05 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Elections held. Motion passed: to have PALS authorization to ask staff to be on call on weekdays if needed. Motion passed: for a report on web OPAC customization. Motion passed: to involve the User Council and the Executive Committee in a strategic planning for a one day meeting (possibly two) with a facilitator.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2006-05-04
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2006 05 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. Elections held. It was suggested that the MnSCU Library Director's website be linked from the PALS Website. It was recommended and approved that the Task Force chairs work on revising the current Task Force document.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2006-05-04
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2006 04 Annual Meeting Minutes
Description: Annual Meeting Minutes. Included guest speaker Richard Madaus, Technology Curves and Libraries. Small group discussions were held in the afternoon. PALS top priority continues to be operations and support.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2006-04-11
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2006 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. User Fees and Participant Charges for FY 2007 were approved. Motion passed: to appoint a task force to look at fees for training and other training issues.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2006-02-02
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2006 02 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. A group was formed to edit the Access Task Force process document and make it generic.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2006-02-02
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2005 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: that the top 3 priorities for this year are Migration, ILL, and version 17. Motion passed: that the PALS office continue to communicate regarding approved changes as they are done; and identify approved changes likely to be worked on in the coming year. Additionally, Council requests that the PALS office communicate which approved changes they expect will be fixed in version 17, and which approved changes are unlikely to be addressed this year. Motion passed: The User Council will override the current bylaws and temporarily allow a librarian currently not in the Serials and Acquisitions area to convene this user group. Motion passed: Until all the MnPALS consortium libraries are on version 17, or until the Access Task Force has a chair, the group will focus on the following two efforts. 1) Review the backlog of approved work requests from the Access Task Force and the Customization Task Force that preceded it, to reconsider the work and priorities assigned. 2) Focus on textual issues related to the public access screens. The name of the User Council will be "Consortium of MnPALS Libraries User Council." Motion passed: The User Council appoint Keith Ewing to serve as the MATF Chair through the spring of 2006.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2005-11-10
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2005 11 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2005-11-10
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2005 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
Description: User Council Meeting Minutes. EC will send a representative to the UC meetings. Standardize dates for User Group meetings as last week of October and second week of April. Motion passed: to rewrite the charge for the Access Task Force. Mission statement and goals were approved by EC and distributed to UC members.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2005-09-08
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2005 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: to name the consortium "Consortium of MnPALS Libraries". This name will be placed in three places in the mission statement and goals.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2005-09-08
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2005 03 Annual Meeting Minutes
Description: Annual Meeting Minutes.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2005-03-31
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2004 10 User Group Minutes of the MnSCU Cataloging User Group Meeting
Description: Minutes taken by Dennis Meissner, Minnesota Historical Society, with contributions by Monica Ralston. Includes PALS report, by Mary Ann Greenwald. Other topics include Effecting Change via NAUUG Voting, Marketing Task Force Representative, and Support Pilot Project for Interlibrary Collaboration and Reduced Reliance on Central PALS Staff, PALS workplan priorities. Bobby Bothman presented concerns and proposals from Minnesota State University, Mankato. Several actions were taken in response to his concerns. Monica Ralston also presented several concerns from the Minnesota Historical Society. Several actions were taken. A motion was moved and passed that gives PALS libraries the option to use third party records. See document for details. Adam Marsnik moved that PALS investigate the procedure of sending third party record holdings back to OCLC and that this be reported by January 1, 2005. Motion passed.
Group: Cataloging User Group
Form: Minutes
Date: 2004-10-26
Years: 2000-2004

Title: 2012 10 Database Quality Management Task Force/Error/Test
Description: Report from Database Quality Management Task Force. This was an error test.
Group: Database Quality Management Task Force, User Groups
Form: Minutes
Date: 2002-10-25
Years: 2000-2004

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