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- 2007 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Two motions of "thank you" for Becky Bell and for Linda Richter were approved. Todd Digby introduced the new Director of MnPALS, Stephen Elfstrand. Mark Scipioni has been brought in as a consultant from Minnesota Department of Administration. Motions passed from PALS Centralization survey report: to customize XSL forms and to upgrade forms customization from version to version. Motion passed: to consolidate PALS e-mail lists. Motion passed: to accept Version 18 draft project plan document. Motion failed: have a steering committee be involved as an advisory board to any staffing issues relating to services provided by the PALS office. Stephen Elfstrand demoed the discovery tool that Al Rykhus has been working with (based on PRIMO open source). By consensus agreed that Stephen will pursue the development/exploration of open source.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
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- 2007-09-10
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 11 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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- 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.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
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- 2009-11-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Michael Barnett has retired. The PALS Office has been exploring a partnership with the CUFTS project in Canada. PALS brokered Link Manager and OCLC WorldCat with OCLC. Stephen Elfstrand will be serving on the MnLINK RFP Committee. Motion passed: the Fall User Groups will be one hour in length; the rest of the time will be used for breakout sessions and to lengthen the general session. User groups are interested in doing workdays.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
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- 2008-09-18
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2008 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
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- 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.
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- User Groups, Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
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- 2008-11-13
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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- 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.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-02-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2008-04 Executive Committee Report at User Group Meeting
- Description
- Includes history on 2007/2008 motions passed and recommendations. Stephen Elfstrand began in August 2007.
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- User Groups, Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2008 02 User Council and Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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- Joint User Council and Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. PALS will not be buying ARC2. The discovery tool is ready. Koha, Equinox, and Evergreen demos coming up. Proxy server upgrade to EZproxy. Discussion on Consortium’s Future Direction and Members’ Needs.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-02-07
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2008 05 User Council Meeting Minutes
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- User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion passed to have one User Group meeting per year. Motion passed to have User Group meetings in the fall. Motion passed: In order to operationalize the Strategic Plan, the User Council recommends that the Executive Committee create a task force to establish processes to determine the needs of member libraries, to monitor future directions of technology to support library services and operations, and to move forward.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-05-01
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2020-02-13 User Council Meeting Minutes
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2020-02-13
- Years
- 2020-2024
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- 2006 05 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Elections held. Motion passed: to have PALS authorization to ask staff to be on call on weekdays if needed. Motion passed: for a report on web OPAC customization. Motion passed: to involve the User Council and the Executive Committee in a strategic planning for a one day meeting (possibly two) with a facilitator.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-05-04
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2006 05 User Council Meeting Minutes
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- User Council Meeting Minutes. Elections held. It was suggested that the MnSCU Library Director's website be linked from the PALS Website. It was recommended and approved that the Task Force chairs work on revising the current Task Force document.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-05-04
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2007 04 User Council Meeting Minutes
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- User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion Passed: to continue consortium meetings with MnPALS staff and request that the EC look at the governance structure and priorities in the fall.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-04-26
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 03 Annual Meeting Minutes
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- Annual Meeting Minutes. Fees for 2008 were approved. Introduction to Strategic Planning Discussion. Small group breakouts regarding Current Situations and Trends. Small group breakouts for Vision and Action Planning.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-03-22
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2006 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. User Fees and Participant Charges for FY 2007 were approved. Motion passed: to appoint a task force to look at fees for training and other training issues.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-02-02
- Years
- 2005-2009
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- 2005 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
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- User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: that the top 3 priorities for this year are Migration, ILL, and version 17. Motion passed: that the PALS office continue to communicate regarding approved changes as they are done; and identify approved changes likely to be worked on in the coming year. Additionally, Council requests that the PALS office communicate which approved changes they expect will be fixed in version 17, and which approved changes are unlikely to be addressed this year. Motion passed: The User Council will override the current bylaws and temporarily allow a librarian currently not in the Serials and Acquisitions area to convene this user group. Motion passed: Until all the MnPALS consortium libraries are on version 17, or until the Access Task Force has a chair, the group will focus on the following two efforts. 1) Review the backlog of approved work requests from the Access Task Force and the Customization Task Force that preceded it, to reconsider the work and priorities assigned. 2) Focus on textual issues related to the public access screens. The name of the User Council will be "Consortium of MnPALS Libraries User Council." Motion passed: The User Council appoint Keith Ewing to serve as the MATF Chair through the spring of 2006.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2005-11-10
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2006 02 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. A group was formed to edit the Access Task Force process document and make it generic.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-02-02
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-11-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2006 04 Annual Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Annual Meeting Minutes. Included guest speaker Richard Madaus, Technology Curves and Libraries. Small group discussions were held in the afternoon. PALS top priority continues to be operations and support.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-04-11
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2020-02-13 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2020-02-13
- Years
- 2020-2024
- Title
- 2007 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Group consensus was that focus should be on upgrading to version 18, prioritizing of the most needed changes and fixes, and relegating outstanding problem tickets to the back burner. Recommended that PALS close the Aleph-Migration listserv. Recommended creating a new electronic list devoted to maintenance and system alerts. Motion passed: that customization and upgrading of XSL forms, and assisting with table changes during version upgrades should be priorities for centralization of tasks to the PALS office. Motion passed: to recommend to the Executive Committee that the PALS Draft Project Plan be approved. Motion passed: to recommend to Executive Committee that Booking be investigated as soon after the version 18 upgrade as possible.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-09-10
- Years
- 2005-2009