2014-4 Acquisitions/Serials Workday Spring Cleaning
Description
The document covers seven clean-up areas for Acquisitions/Serials data. It includes examples of how to clean data in invoices, monograph orders, budgets, standing orders, serial orders, subscription records, and orders without attached BIB or ADM records.
Report presentation slides for the Report of the Executive Director to the User Council and Executive Committee of the Consortium of MnPALS Libraries on February 14, 2013. Covers strategic plan goals, new PALS staff, PALS and libraries, Evergreen, future ILS, web scale discovery, and MnPALS Plus and VuFind. Probably held at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota.
2011-10 User Group Meeting Reports Work Group Highlights 2010-2011
Description
The report recounts the highlights of the Reports Work Group from 2010 to 2011. The group met bimonthly via conference call to discuss creating new reports, improving existing reports, phasing out Priv-20, and how to answer IPED/NCES/ALS statistical questions with Aleph reports.
The report describes User Council meetings from fall 2010 to fall 2011. Meeting topics included better ways to prepare for User Group elections and workday planning. Over the course of the year, the Reference User Group changed its name to the Reference and Instruction User Group. The Cataloging User Group changed its governance structure to have three representatives from any two-year institution on the steering committee, rather than from a specific type of two-year institution.
2011-10 Reference and Instruction User Group Meeting Titles/Items Priv-21
Description
The report was designed for collection development to analyze library collections. It goes through types of Priv reports and how to use them to find specific information.