2013-10 Systems User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include moving the Minitex and UM ILL units to the PALS office, purchasing licenses for EZproxy, spring 2014 workday sessions, and elections: Tess Kasling volunteered to take over the Private Colleges and Universities position, Michael Kirby volunteered to continue in his position, and Karen Bronshteyn will continue in her position.
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.
Agenda items include sessions on creating collective knowledge resources, updating the Consortium Circulation Policy, using Google Docs for record keeping in Traditional and Electronic Reserves, and training Circulation and ILL student employees.
2012-4 Circulation/ILL Workday Circulation Training
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The presentation goes through training for Circulation student employees at Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library. It includes information about differentiating between MnPALS and Aleph, checking out items, and working with ILL.
The presentation covered a variety of topics related to ILL. Topics of discussion include ILL70 patron link removal, Intransit for ILL and Circulation, adding page numbers to lending slips, displaying circulation notes, and OCLC Direct Request.
The presentation covers how Circulation and ILL work together to deal with overdue and lost items, as well as the responsibilities of the borrowing and lending libraries. It also describes how to update the status of overdue and lost items online.
2012-4 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday Agenda
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Agenda items include sessions on copyright for digital media, bibliographic metadata in RDA, moving from print to electronic journals, digital resource sets in MnPALS Plus, genre and form headings for moving images, Century College Library's experience with e-books, and preparing for the Library of Congress to implement RDA.
2012-4 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday MnPALS Plus Digital Sets
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The presentation discussed MnPALS Plus digital resource sets. Sets are loaded into MnPALS Plus for patron discovery and access. Sets mentioned in the presentation include Films on Demand, Credo Reference, ebrary, Alexander Street Press Video, Oxford Reference, MN Digital Library Collections, and Minitex eBooks.
2012-4 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday Cataloging Related Choices
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The document instructs readers on how to complete various cataloging tasks, such as using A-Z, cataloging e-journals, and reflecting e-journals in print records.
Agenda items include sessions on Systems training, customizing PALSconnect Linker, connecting PubMed to PALSconnect Linker, Electronic Resource Management systems, and how libraries are doing circulation services, reports, and notices.
There were not enough presenters to do a full Reference and Instruction Workday, so the "workday" consisted of two online sessions during the week of March 26, 2012. Sessions included an introduction to the PALS Universe and an open discussion about Reference Collections.
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.