- Title
- 2011 10 User Group Meeting Director's Report
- Description
- Power Point for report of the PALS Executive Director to the User Group Meeting. Topics include the new MnSCU Chancellor, PALS strategic plan for 2012-2015, and PALS Universe.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include issues with Aleph version 20, the spring 2012 workday with the Cataloging User Group, and elections.
- Group
- Acquisitions/Serials User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 Cataloging User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include potentially disbanding the Authorities Task Force, MARC changes, fixed fields in SYS01, the spring 2012 workday, and elections. Motion passed: Lori Pesik made a motion to use the Ex Libris tag information, and any help information about the tags, instead of using any PALS customization.
- Group
- Cataloging User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 Circulation User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include issues with Aleph version 20, the value of virtual vs. in-person work days (specifically for the spring 2012 workday), and elections.
- Group
- Circulation User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 ILL User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include Aleph OPAC due date display, lending requests, creating a report of the top 100 unfilled journal titles, and elections.
- Group
- Interlibrary Loan User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 Reference and Instruction User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include labeling streaming videos, new MARC tags for RDA, and elections: Amanda Bolland, Bethany Lutheran College, and Travis Dolence, MSU Moorhead volunteered for the two At Large Member positions. The volunteers were approved by acclamation. Motions passed: Change the wording when ILL requests are submitted to “Request created successfully. Check Your Borrowing Record for more information.” The next item was a recommendation to change the language in the OPAC when ILL items are intransit between libraries from “Intransit/Sublibrary” to “ILL.” The final item on the PALS report was a recommendation to change the language in the OPAC from “Print Book” to “Printed Book.”
- Group
- Reference and Instruction User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 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.
- Group
- Reference and Instruction User Group
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 Systems User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include testing version 21, the Reports Work Group's current activities (as of 2011), the spring 2012 workday, and elections.
- Group
- Systems User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 User Group Meeting Agenda
- Description
- Agenda items include sessions on PALSconnect Linker, OCLC's Bibliographic Notification Service, trimming the serials budget, communicating with the Consortium through the PALS website, St. Cloud University's use of LibData and Research Project, and the future of Minnesota libraries. Century College's acquisition of the Fire Library collection was also discussed.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Agenda
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 User Group Meeting Executive Director Report
- Description
- The presentation discussed goals for 2012 to 2015. Goals included becoming financially sustainable, improve Aleph operations and customer support, be the Premier Evergreen Service Provider in the Upper Midwest, improve user discovery, create new products and services, and improve customer satisfaction.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Presentation
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 User Group Meeting Full PALS Report
- Description
- The 2011 PALS Report focused on Aleph subsystems, updates to PALS products and services (EZproxy, MnPALS Plus, PALSconnect Linker, PALSconnect ERM, Evergreen), and current activities of task forces and office teams. Highlights include global changes to bibliographic records to reflect new MARC standards and testing Aleph version 21 before Consortium-wide implementation.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 User Group Meeting Futures Interest Group Report
- Description
- The report lists the FIG meetings that took place from fall 2010 to fall 2012. Topics discussed include federated vs. aggregated search, eXtensible Catalog, legal issues with e-books and e-readers, mobile access to library resources, and digital asset management.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 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.
- Group
- Reports Work Group
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014
- Title
- 2011-10 User Group Meeting User Council Report
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2011-10-19
- Years
- 2010-2014