Pages
- Title
- 2009 11 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Move to combine the categories of Community College and Technical Colleges within the membership paragraph, yet retain four total members for the combined category. (moved to amend the motion, to drop it for this month.) Robbie LaFleur will draft the new language, to be approved by the Executive Committee at the February meeting. Final authorization could take place at the Annual Meeting. Motion to ask the User Council to come up with a proposal for a new User Group structure by the February meeting.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-11-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-11-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 10 ILL User Group Meeting Minutes
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Interlibrary Loan User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-11-03
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 Circulation User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include using Strategic Plan to track work plan items, consortium circulation policy, workday planning, and elections.
- Group
- Circulation User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 Systems User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Group
- Systems User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 Reference and Instruction User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include using Strategic Plan, planning a spring workday, and elections.
- Group
- Reference and Instruction User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 Circulation User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Main discussion topics include elections, PALS strategic plan, consortium circulation policy, and workday planning
- Group
- Circulation User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 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.
- Group
- Interlibrary Loan User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Acquisitions/Serials User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-09-10
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Resolution with Ex Libris regarding Aleph maintenance contract; working with Minnesota State University, Mankato to implement a virtual machine (VM) cluster; discussion about governance structure being based on the old module-based PALS structure; PALS commitment to Evergreen; second Location for PALS Office discussion; 360 Degree Feedback (Performance Reviews) for Stephen Elfstrand and Todd Digby; spending cuts for PALS Office; transferring staff knowledge.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-09-10
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 04 UC_EC Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Joint User Council and Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Rasmussen College is withdrawing from Consortium. Discovery Tool Task Force disbanded, but is “open” for the next discovery tool or service the consortium might want to develop. Motion passed: that the Executive Committee form a group to address the governance structure issues, to make recommendations, and to report back to User Council and Executive Committee after the Fall 2009 User Group meeting.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-04-16
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 04 Annual Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Director Report: https://www.mnpals.org/smfforum?topic=947.0
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-04-16
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Motions passed: That the User Council establish 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 the MnPALS forums. Bug reports should continue to be reported through the Support Center; 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; User Council recommended the Governance Structure be changed to allow an at-large representative from a consolidated, community, or technical college to be elected to User Council; increase User fees by 7% for FY2010; A motion to approve the increase in participant charges for PALS effective July 1, 2009; Vote for members of the Needs Assessment Task Force and that this group also work on a Library 2020 document in response to the MnSCU 2020.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-02-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 02 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-02-09
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Web Meeting. Motion passed: Expedite the upgrade to version 19, pending a 30-day review by consortium members. Motion passed: that User Groups be held in conjunction with the Regional Ex Libris User Group meeting; alternate dates would be the sometime from November 29 to October 2, with a Twin Cities location. PALS will send out an announcement to notify people about the switch to the Forums calendar. Motion passed: request that the Executive Committee change the governance structure document to allow an at-large position to the User Council from a consolidated or technical college.
- Group
- User Groups, Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-11-13
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 11 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Web Meeting. Motion tabled: User Council recommends that the Governance Structure be changed to allow an at-large representative from a consolidated or technical college to be elected to User Council for further discussion. Motion passed: Executive Committee accepts the motion from the User Council: that the PALS office expedite the upgrade to version 19, pending a 30 day review by consortium members. Motion passed: to redraft and send to MnPALS consortium the document to set up the Consortium Needs Assessment Task Force.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-11-13
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 Interlibrary Loan User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Discussions during meeting included direct borrowing, revisions to policy and procedures statement on ILL (interlibrary loan), changes to interlibrary loan form, the PALS report, and workday planning. Motions were made and passed. Included amendment to the policy and procedure statement by MnPALS Libraries. Add Minneapolis Public Library at end of first sentence. Seconded by Joan and motion passed. An additional motion made: to remove asterisk from mandatory fields and add the phrase “Missing or incorrect information may delay filling your request.“
- Group
- Interlibrary Loan User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-10-30
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 Reference and Instruction User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Discussion on reconfiguring OPAC display order, adding 880 MARC fields for alternate characters to edit-doc-999 for display in OPAC. Bobby Bothman would like them to appear in main record display. Examples are: ocm138759778 ocm184986922 ocm36661830 ocm60609011.
- Group
- Reference and Instruction User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 System User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Discussion included LDAP authentication, planning for workday, and a motion was approved that the Systems Group or Reports group present a webinar in January that identifies reports that will be useful to prepare the ALS survey from NCES and perhaps present a second webinar to discuss problems encountered.
- Group
- Systems User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- Years
- 2005-2009