2013-10 User Group Meeting Library Resources Normandale
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The presentation covers library resources and services that are available for Normandale Partnership Students. It discusses the opening of Normandale's Partnership Center and how the library is helping students transition into partnership studies.
2013-4 Circulation/ILL Workday Minitex Overdue, Damaged, Lost Materials
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The document, created by the Minitex/ILL Committee, outlines how to handle overdue, damaged, and lost items. The information is pulled directly from the ILL Policy Database.
2014-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include Aleph version 22, budgetary issues, options for a new library system, and elections: The group elected Amanda Moeller from Gustavus Adolphus College to replace Nat Gustafson-Sundell and Rachel Wexelbaum as co-conveners.
The presentation discussed patron driven acquisition (PDA) programs that are available. PDA at the College of Saint Benedict & Saint Johh's University is examined.
Topics discussed include sending out an ILL survey to learn about the consortium's ILL operations, reviewing the ILL Policy, updating lists, and elections. Motion passed: The updated ILL Policy was approved and sent to the User Council and Executive Committee for review.
The presentation covers how MSU, Mankato negotiates licenses for e-resources, how license terms affect ILL, and the best ways to move forward with licensing.
The presentation covers a variety of topics, including e-books, ILL services for distance and online patrons, using non-ILL resources to fill requests, locally owned requests, and purchase on demand.
2014-10 Reference and Instruction User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include planning the 2015 spring workday, the future of ILS, and elections: Casey Duevel (Minnesota State University, Mankato), Jessi Zimmerman (Bethany Lutheran College), and Cynthia Jorstad (Northland Community & Technical College).
Agenda items include sessions on using library data to improve student experiences, library services for partnership students, new models of reference services, library instruction models, and learning from British information literacy models.
2014-10 Systems User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include Aleph version 22, current activities of the Reports Work Group, data cleanup to prepare for a new ILS, and elections: Elizabeth Tuckwood (Minnesota State Law Library) replaced Elizabeth Lincoln for Special and State Government Libraries.
Agenda items include sessions on digital asset management (Islandora), e-copy and e-delivery, training effective student workers, EZproxy and D2L, batch deleting discontinued titles, and managing streaming video.
The presentation covers the creation of e-copy requests, e-copy potential supplier lists, and what happens when a lending library ships a request as an e-copy or c-copy. Options for e-delivery were also discussed.
The presentation discusses Islandora and its many functions, as well as how it is used by PALS. It was accompanied by demos that showed attendees how to ingest, edit, and then search various objects with Islandora.
2014-10 User Group Meeting Streaming Video Copyright Compliance
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The handout accompanied a discussion about licensing and managing streaming video. It includes information about copyright compliance for uploading videos.