Pages
- Title
- 2007 User Council Guidelines
- Description
- Document outlining the responsibilities for User Group Conveners, the User Council Chair, User Council Members, the User Council Representative to the DDC/EC, and voting structure.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Other
- Date
- 2007
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: to drop any consideration of going with ARC2. Motion passed: MnPALS staff will focus available resources to consortium-wide activities and innovative services such as Version 18 features, open source initiatives, and improvements to user interfaces. MnPALS will not move towards the implementation of Aleph Version 19 unless Executive Committee directs. The Innovation and Project Management Coordinator is a new idea and would oversee teams such as Open Source ILS, EZproxy, OpenURL, etc. Motion passed: to accept changes to Participant Library Charges.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-02-07
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 02 User Council and Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Joint User Council and Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. PALS will not be buying ARC2. The discovery tool is ready. Koha, Equinox, and Evergreen demos coming up. Proxy server upgrade to EZproxy. Discussion on Consortium’s Future Direction and Members’ Needs.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-02-07
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Agenda
- Description
- Agenda for Annual Meeting. Demos - Aleph OPAC, SOLR, Evergreen Search and Delivery.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Agenda
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Executive Committee Report
- Description
- Executive Committee Report for Annual Meeting.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Executive Director Report
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Innovation Unit Report
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Minutes
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Support and Training Services Report
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Technical Services Report
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 05 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-05-01
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 05 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion passed to have one User Group meeting per year. Motion passed to have User Group meetings in the fall. Motion passed: In order to operationalize the Strategic Plan, the User Council recommends that the Executive Committee create a task force to establish processes to determine the needs of member libraries, to monitor future directions of technology to support library services and operations, and to move forward.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-05-01
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Michael Barnett has retired. The PALS Office has been exploring a partnership with the CUFTS project in Canada. PALS brokered Link Manager and OCLC WorldCat with OCLC. Stephen Elfstrand will be serving on the MnLINK RFP Committee. Motion passed: the Fall User Groups will be one hour in length; the rest of the time will be used for breakout sessions and to lengthen the general session. User groups are interested in doing workdays.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-09-18
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. PALS Office formed a marketing committee. Motion passed: to restructure User Group meetings to one hour subsystem group meetings for business only and add breakout sessions. Mike Barnett retired.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-09-18
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 11 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Web Meeting. Motion tabled: User Council recommends that the Governance Structure be changed to allow an at-large representative from a consolidated or technical college to be elected to User Council for further discussion. Motion passed: Executive Committee accepts the motion from the User Council: that the PALS office expedite the upgrade to version 19, pending a 30 day review by consortium members. Motion passed: to redraft and send to MnPALS consortium the document to set up the Consortium Needs Assessment Task Force.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-11-13
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Web Meeting. Motion passed: Expedite the upgrade to version 19, pending a 30-day review by consortium members. Motion passed: that User Groups be held in conjunction with the Regional Ex Libris User Group meeting; alternate dates would be the sometime from November 29 to October 2, with a Twin Cities location. PALS will send out an announcement to notify people about the switch to the Forums calendar. Motion passed: request that the Executive Committee change the governance structure document to allow an at-large position to the User Council from a consolidated or technical college.
- Group
- User Groups, Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-11-13
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 Executive Committee Report at User Group Meeting
- Description
- Includes history on 2007/2008 motions passed and recommendations. Stephen Elfstrand began in August 2007.
- Group
- User Groups, Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 User Group Meeting Executive Committee Report
- Description
- Executive Committee report at the Fall 2008 User Group Meeting. This report contains highlights on major issues throughout the year, including investigating Aleph Version 19, open source ILS alternatives, marketing opportunities for MnPALS Plus Discovery, a needs assessment to operationalize the strategic plan, and governance structure.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Motions passed: That the User Council establish a “MnPALS Plus Working Group” to provide oversight for decision-making for MnPALS Plus; That all future suggestions and requests for refinements and enhancements to MnPALS Plus should be submitted to a MnPALS Plus board created on the MnPALS forums. Bug reports should continue to be reported through the Support Center; That the User Council accepts as completed the work of the DTTF and disband the group, while establishing working groups for any new discovery tools and services PALS may be exploring; User Council recommended the Governance Structure be changed to allow an at-large representative from a consolidated, community, or technical college to be elected to User Council; increase User fees by 7% for FY2010; A motion to approve the increase in participant charges for PALS effective July 1, 2009; Vote for members of the Needs Assessment Task Force and that this group also work on a Library 2020 document in response to the MnSCU 2020.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-02-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 02 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Motions Passed: That the User Council accepts as completed the work of the DTTF and disband the group while establishing working groups for any new discovery tools and services PALS may be exploring; that the User Council establishes a “MnPALS Plus Working Group” to provide oversight for decision-making for MnPALS Plus; that all future suggestions and requests for refinements and enhancements to MnPALS Plus should be submitted to a MnPALS Plus board created on MnPALS forums. Bug reports should continue to be reported through the Support Center; recommend that the Executive Committee consider that the Needs Assessment Task Force draft a proactive Library 2020 document as an informative response to MnSCU 2020.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-02-09
- Years
- 2005-2009