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.
Motion passed: That the MnPALS Strategic Plan dated December 2006, be reviewed by all Executive Committee members before the next quarterly meeting and discussed as an agenda item at the November meeting.
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.
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Todd Digby was able to secure $65,000 from Minnesota State Colleges and Universities for upgraded Proxy Server and other technology innovations.
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.
2012-4 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday Agenda
Description
Agenda items include sessions on copyright for digital media, bibliographic metadata in RDA, moving from print to electronic journals, digital resource sets in MnPALS Plus, genre and form headings for moving images, Century College Library's experience with e-books, and preparing for the Library of Congress to implement RDA.
Executive Director's Report for Annual Meeting. Includes update from the PALS office, update on Aleph implementation, Eta Libraries, ILL, future Aleph versions, the PALS software, finances, and LaSSSI (Large Scale Shared Systems Initiative).
Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: to name the consortium "Consortium of MnPALS Libraries". This name will be placed in three places in the mission statement and goals.