Pages
- Title
- 2005 02 Indexing Task Force Basics of Indexing in Aleph 500
- Description
- Document for presentation explaining the basics of indexing in Aleph 500, Version 15.5.2. Presented by Al Rykhus and Mary Ann Greenwald.
- Group
- Indexing Task Force
- Form
- Presentation
- Date
- 2005-02-07
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2005 09 MnPALS Access Task Force Charge
- Description
- Revised charge for the MnPALS Access Task Force. Revised on September 12, 2005.
- Group
- MnPALS Access Task Force
- Form
- Other
- Date
- 2005-09-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 09 Aleph Reports for Cataloging Purposes
- Description
- Document for presentation at Cataloging Workday in September 2007. Covers Aleph reports that are useful for cataloging purposes. These include Count of New and Updated Catalog Records by Cataloger, Titles Never Loaned, Items Not Linked to Holding Records, Non-Deleted ADM Docs that don't have links, Titles in a Collection, and instructions on exporting to Microsoft Excel 2007.
- Group
- Cataloging User Group
- Form
- Presentation
- Date
- 2007-09
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Reviewed PALS report. Email lists reduced to two: MnPALS Announce & MnPALS Discuss. Elections were held. Secretary - Michelle Ehlert (Metro State) was unanimously approved. User Council Representative-Heather Biedermann (MSU-Mankato) was unanimously approved. Both are for 2 year terms beginning in May. Michelle will also serve as an alternate to the User Council. Aleph version 18 enhancements discussed.
- Group
- Acquisitions/Serials User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 ILL User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Reviewed how to set up administration for new Aleph ILL in GUI client. Minitex gave an update and presentation which illustrated that MINITEX delivered 900,000 items in 2007-2008 and in 2008-2009 they currently are seeing a 36% (32,000) increase of items delivered to date. Further discussion included topics such as borrowing agreements between libraries led by Pam Sukalski (now Pam Gladis) and Peter Jarnstrom, the ILL Protocols Document, and interlibrary loan and open source. There was also a Version 18 Q & A.
- Group
- Interlibrary Loan User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-05-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 Reference and Instruction User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- A motion was made that the Reference User Group recommend to the User Council that we hold one User Group (probably in the Spring) meeting per year and one work day (probably in the fall). Motion passed that MnPALS Access Task force be disbanded. Discussed open source ILS options, a concern expressed that there were "too many irons in the fire" and no consortia consensus.
- Group
- Reference and Instruction User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 Systems User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Minutes and agenda for the Spring 2008 User Group Meeting. Carrie Curie recorder. There was a lot of discussions on EZProxy implementation, conversion from LibProxy. Other discussions included the Reports Group as a deciding and peer-review group, statistics for NCES survey (formerly IPEDS), Aleph Version 18 inter-library-loan privileges, and using an email address to link LDAP and ALEPH.
- Group
- Systems User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 User Group Meeting Agenda
- Description
- User Group meeting agenda. Meeting took place Thursday April 17 and Friday April 18. Included a celebration of Mike Barnett's retirement.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Agenda
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 User Group Meeting Director's Report
- Description
- General session report by Stephen Elfstrand.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Presentation
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04 User Group Slides Open Source ILS Demo and Discussion Current Status and Future Prospects
- Description
- Slides for demonstration on open source ILS possibilities Koha and Evergreen, proposed as possible replacements or alternative for Aleph.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Presentation
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-04-17 Cataloging User Group Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- User group meeting minutes for Spring 2008. Main topics of discussion include frequency of user group meetings, and workday discussion. Includes a discussion on course reserves based on question from Lisa Lentz. Other business included various Task Force reports, a discussion on open source, and possible ELUNA presentations. There was a motion made by Adam Marsnik for User Group to be held once a year and workday once a year. Vote was for fall Workday and Spring User Group.
- Group
- Cataloging User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Dee Nolan describes upcoming functional training on aquisitions, discussion on reports for dealing with serials and local holding records, reports useful for completing library surveys such as NCES (formerly IPEDS), and planning for workday.
- Group
- Acquisitions/Serials User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 Cataloging User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Discussion on global changes to bibliographic or holding records, automatic creation of holding and item records, local holding records, creation of ADM (administrative) record. and workday planning. Included an additional discussion of ebook MARC records.
- Group
- Cataloging User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- 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
- Title
- 2008-10 User Group Meeting Breakout Session Exporting LHR (Local Holding Records) to OCLC
- Description
- Summary: PALS has recently sent a test LHR file to OCLC for Inver Hills Community College. The PALS office was able to pull the necessary holding information and fix certain tag fields in the file for this test load. The data is only fixed in the file. We are not able to fix the data in the holding record. This session will inform libraries on the correct data needed in their serial holding records. Libraries can then clean up their records and also understand how to create new serial holding records with the correct tag information. This is documentation related to the presentation,
- Group
- Acquisitions/Serials User Group
- Form
- Notes
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 User Group Meeting Breakout Session Tag Fields Needed for Serials Holdings Records
- Description
- PALS has recently sent a test LHR file to OCLC for Inver Hills Community College. The PALS office was able to pull the necessary holding information and fix certain tag fields in the file for this test load. The data is only fixed in the file. We are not able to fix the data in the holding record. This session will inform libraries on the correct data needed in their serial holding records. Libraries can then clean up their records and also understand how to create new serial holding records with the correct tag information. This is documentation that was used for this breakout session.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Other
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 User Group Meeting ILL/CIRC Overdues Tables Breakout Session
- Description
- This breakout session will focus on the setup in tab18 and tab32 so your library can send circulation overdue notices to your patrons who have a loan for an ILL request. Also how to send notices to a borrowing library will be talked about. Presenters/Moderators were Susan Dueis and Sonja Eilertson.
- Group
- Interlibrary Loan User Group, User Groups
- Form
- Presentation
- Date
- 2008-10-30
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 User Group Meeting ILL/CIRC Overdues Workflow Breakout Session
- Description
- Summary: We will review the relationship between the ILL module and the Circulation module regarding overdue, lost and recalled items. The focus of this breakout will be on workflow. If you have policies or workflows to share with the group please join us. These are the slides for the presentation ILL/CIRC Overdues Workflow.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Presentation
- Date
- 2008-10-30
- Years
- 2005-2009