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.
The presentation shows how social media can be used to market a library. Livingston Lord Library of MSU, Moorhead used Facebook to share renovation updates, a blog to share important news and collection information, and a chat function on their website to communicate with patrons.
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.
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.
2014-4 Circulation/ILL Workday Cleaning Cash Charges for Lost Items
Description
The presentation describes a few different ways to clean up the data showing cash charges for lost items. The goal is to prevent, contain, or control the mess and then clean it up.
Agenda items include sessions on using library data to improve the student experience, ILL workflow, cash charges for lost items, licensing e-resources, marketing with social media.
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.
The presentation discussed patron driven acquisition (PDA) programs that are available. PDA at the College of Saint Benedict & Saint Johh's University is examined.
The 2013 Systems Workday included sessions on Aleph tables and letters, cataloging for zines, a custom label printing program, PALSconnect Linker and ERM, and Aleph reports for new titles lists and weeding.
2013-4 Reference and Instruction Workday SubjectsPlus
Description
The presentation discussed the migration from LibData to SubjectsPlus at St. Cloud State University. It included information about SubjectsPlus' features and how to implement it at other institutions.
Agenda items include sessions on copyright issues in higher education, MnPALS Plus version 2, Web-Scale Discovery, RDA changes affecting record display in OPAC/MnPALS Plus, SubjectsPlus, and online library instruction.
2013-4 Circulation/ILL Workday Patron Web Interface to Aleph Booking
Description
The presentation describes how the Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College Library is using Aleph booking to allow students to reserve group study rooms.
2013-4 Circulation/ILL Workday Minitex Overdue, Damaged, Lost Materials
Description
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.
Agenda items include sessions on training and supervising library student workers, Aleph booking, delivering articles electronically, dealing with overdue and lost ILL requests, and copyright issues in public services.
2013-4 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday RDA Name Authority Changes
Description
The presentation discusses RDA changes to the LC/NACO Name Authority FIle in Aleph. It goes through new MARC fields and changes to headings, dates, music, and treaties. There was also a focus on the MnPALS and Aleph updating process.