2011-4 Reference and Instruction Workday Trace a Study
Description
The document (created for Concordia College students) discusses how to trace a study from a popular press article back to the original journal article.
Agenda items include sessions on Google Scholar and PALSconnect Linker, LibData Enhancements at St. Cloud University, Archon Digital Archiving Tool, and LibGuides.
2011-4 Systems Workday Connect Google Scholar with PALSconnect Linker
Description
The document instructs readers how to connect Google Scholar with PALSconnect Linker so Google Scholar displays links to the library's full-text resources.
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.
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.
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.
Agenda items include sessions on creating collective knowledge resources, updating the Consortium Circulation Policy, using Google Docs for record keeping in Traditional and Electronic Reserves, and training Circulation and ILL student employees.
2012-4 Circulation/ILL Workday Circulation Training
Description
The presentation goes through training for Circulation student employees at Folke Bernadotte Memorial Library. It includes information about differentiating between MnPALS and Aleph, checking out items, and working with ILL.
There were not enough presenters to do a full Reference and Instruction Workday, so the "workday" consisted of two online sessions during the week of March 26, 2012. Sessions included an introduction to the PALS Universe and an open discussion about Reference Collections.
Agenda items include sessions on Systems training, customizing PALSconnect Linker, connecting PubMed to PALSconnect Linker, Electronic Resource Management systems, and how libraries are doing circulation services, reports, and notices.
2012-10 User Group Meeting General Session Question Results
Description
2012 User Group Meeting attendees were asked whether they thought "the General Session was worth the time spent." This graph shows that most agreed that the General Session was valuable.
2012-10 User Group Meeting Lunch/Networking Question Results
Description
2012 User Group Meeting attendees were asked whether they thought "Lunch/Networking was worth the time spent." The majority of attendees agreed that Lunch/Networking was valuable.
2013-10 Systems User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Topics discussed include moving the Minitex and UM ILL units to the PALS office, purchasing licenses for EZproxy, spring 2014 workday sessions, and elections: Tess Kasling volunteered to take over the Private Colleges and Universities position, Michael Kirby volunteered to continue in his position, and Karen Bronshteyn will continue in her position.
2010-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Topics discussed include concerns about EBSCO's service and serial pricing, the subsystem version 20 update, workdays, and elections: The group unanimously voted for Rachel to continue as Convener. Sarah Monson was elected Recorder for a two year term, effective fall 2010.
Presentation slides from a presentation given at Fall 2010 User Groups. The presentation is described as "a general session on tips and sharing about borrowing and lending requests." No information given on who the presenters were, or the location where the presentation was made.
