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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: 2008-10 User Group Meeting Welcome and PALS Report
Description: Report by PALS Executive Director for the Fall 2008 User Group Meeting. Covered the new user group format, available breakouts, workdays, site visits, improving services, open source options, Aleph Version 18, Aleph Version 19, MnPALS Plus, WorldCat Local, Koha, Evergreen, Discovery team, and the strategic plan.
Group: User Groups
Form: Presentation
Date: 2008-10-29
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2008-10 User Group Meeting Inventory Management Breakout Session Inventory Manual
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. This is documentation related to the inventory process.
Group: User Groups
Form: Notes
Date: 2008-10-30
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 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.
Group: Interlibrary Loan User Group, User Groups
Form: Presentation
Date: 2008-10-30
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 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.“
Group: Interlibrary Loan User Group
Form: Minutes
Date: 2008-10-30
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 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.
Group: User Groups
Form: Notes
Date: 2008-10-30
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2008-10 User Group Meeting ILL/CIRC Overdues Workflow Breakout Session
Description: Summary: We will review the relationship between the ILL module and the Circulation module regarding overdue, lost and recalled items. The focus of this breakout will be on workflow. If you have policies or workflows to share with the group please join us. These are the slides for the presentation ILL/CIRC Overdues Workflow.
Group: User Groups
Form: Presentation
Date: 2008-10-30
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2008-10 User Group Meeting PLIF Error Log Breakout Session
Description: Summary: Learn more about PLIF error logs and further your understanding of how the PLIF patron load system works, including handling errors generated by the system. This is documentation that accompanied presentation.
Group: Circulation User Group
Form: Presentation
Date: 2008-10-30
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 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: 2011-4 Reference and Instruction Workday Reference Source Eval
Description: The document is meant to walk students through the process of locating and evaluating references for research projects at Concordia College. It includes instructions on how to search the MnPALS Plus online catalog.
Group: Reference and Instruction User Group
Form: Other
Date: 2008-5-20
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

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 04 UC_EC Meeting Minutes
Description: Joint User Council and Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Rasmussen College is withdrawing from Consortium. Discovery Tool Task Force disbanded, but is “open” for the next discovery tool or service the consortium might want to develop. Motion passed: that the Executive Committee form a group to address the governance structure issues, to make recommendations, and to report back to User Council and Executive Committee after the Fall 2009 User Group meeting.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2009-04-16
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2009 04 Annual Meeting Executive Director Report
Description: https://www.mnpals.org/smfforum?topic=947.0
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Report
Date: 2009-04-16
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2009 04 Annual Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Director Report: https://www.mnpals.org/smfforum?topic=947.0
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2009-04-16
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2009 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
Description: Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Resolution with Ex Libris regarding Aleph maintenance contract; working with Minnesota State University, Mankato to implement a virtual machine (VM) cluster; discussion about governance structure being based on the old module-based PALS structure; PALS commitment to Evergreen; second Location for PALS Office discussion; 360 Degree Feedback (Performance Reviews) for Stephen Elfstrand and Todd Digby; spending cuts for PALS Office; transferring staff knowledge.
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2009-09-10
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2009 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
Group: Executive Committee and User Council
Form: Minutes
Date: 2009-09-10
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2009-10 User Group Meeting Reports Work Group Report
Description: The report discussed the accomplishments of the Reports Work Group in 2009, including process-related decisions and bundled reports.
Group: User Groups
Form: Report
Date: 2009-10-28
Years: 2005-2009

Title: 2009-10 Circulation User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description: Main discussion topics include elections, PALS strategic plan, consortium circulation policy, and workday planning
Group: Circulation User Group
Form: Minutes
Date: 2009-10-28
Years: 2005-2009

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