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- Title
- 2007 02 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Keynote Speakers for Spring User Group Meeting: Shane Nackerud (UM) and Cody Hansen (UM). Task Forces Policy Document Motion: Insert “Every effort will be made to insure representation by size and type of library” after the first sentence of #4 [Membership]. Motion: change wording from “When” to “As_ in 7.b. Motion: accept Task Forces Policy document as amended and forward to the Executive Committee. Motion: The User Council requests that the Executive Committee identify 7 possible core activities for the consortium to pursue for the next 10 to 15 years. Motion: The User Council needs to identify and provide an appropriate forum to continue the discussion of strategic planning. Motion: Refer the Vision Statement that came out of the strategic planning process to the Executive Committee for revision. Motion: Recommend to the Executive Committee to assign 2 people to work with 2 people from the UC (Bothmann and Ewing) to edit and present a final draft Governance Structure document. Motion: Allow the MARC Task Force to move forward with a policy recommendation.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-02-01
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 03 Annual Meeting Minutes
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-03-22
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 03 Annual Meeting Support and Training Services Report
- Description
- Support and Training Services Report for Annual Meeting.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2007-03-22
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 03 Annual Meeting Technical Services Report
- Description
- Technical Services Report for Annual Meeting. WebPALS shut down on August 24, 2006. Access to mainframe turned off in October, 2006; still running for registration data. Will get permanently shut down once UNIX server is set up.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2007-03-22
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 03 Annual Meeting User Council Report
- Description
- User Council Report for Annual Meeting.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2007-03-22
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-09-10
- Years
- 2005-2009
- 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.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-09-10
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 User Council Guidelines
- Description
- Document outlining the responsibilities for User Group Conveners, the User Council Chair, User Council Members, the User Council Representative to the DDC/EC, and voting structure.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Other
- Date
- 2007
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Executive Committee Report
- Description
- Executive Committee Report for Annual Meeting.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Innovation Unit Report
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 03 Annual Meeting Minutes
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-03-20
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 05 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-05-01
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 05 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-05-01
- 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
- 2008-04 Executive Committee Report at User Group Meeting
- Description
- Includes history on 2007/2008 motions passed and recommendations. Stephen Elfstrand began in August 2007.
- Group
- User Groups, Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008-10 User Group Meeting Executive Committee Report
- Description
- Executive Committee report at the Fall 2008 User Group Meeting. This report contains highlights on major issues throughout the year, including investigating Aleph Version 19, open source ILS alternatives, marketing opportunities for MnPALS Plus Discovery, a needs assessment to operationalize the strategic plan, and governance structure.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- 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
- 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 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