Notes from the ILL user group meeting. Topics of discussion include the direct borrowing survey, review steering committee membership, Minitex report, discussion about user group meetings and workdays. Includes the PALS report by Sonja Eilertson. Also Cynthia Jorstad (Northland Community and Technical College, Thief River Falls) made a motion to combine the community college and technical college steering committee positions into one two-year college position and to add a representative at large to the ILL steering committee. Motion passed.
Meetings that took place include: Acquisitions/Serials Subsystem Business Meeting, Cataloging Subsystem Business Meeting, Reference Subsystem Business Meeting, Systems Subsystem Business Meeting, Circulation Subsystem Business Meeting, and ILL Subsystem Business Meeting.
2009-10 Interlibrary Loan User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Topics discussed include a direct borrowing survey, reviewing Steering Committee membership, and virtual workday success. Motion passed: combine the Community College and Technical College Steering Committee position to a Two Year College position and to add a representative at-large to the ILL steering committee.
2009-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include a 2010 spring workday, the Acq/Serials wiki page, and elections. Motion passed: Jean Kramer was elected Acq/Serials User Council Rep for a two year term, beginning Spring 2010.
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.
2011-4 Reference and Instruction Workday Reference Source Eval
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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.