Meetings that took place include: Acquisitions/Serials Subsystem Business Meeting, Cataloging Subsystem Business Meeting, Reference Subsystem Business Meeting, Systems Subsystem Business Meeting, Circulation Subsystem Business Meeting, and ILL Subsystem Business Meeting.
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.
2008-04 User Group Support and Training Services Report
Description
Full PALS report for the 2008 Spring User Group Meeting, covering support and training services, subsystem reports (acquisitions, serials, cataloging, and more). Includes statistics on support tickets.
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.
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.
Document that outlines the governance structure of MnSCU/PALS - how the Executive Committee is structured, how the User Council is structured, how the Deans/Directors/Coordinators group is structured and, and how User Groups are structured. Also included are the mission and purposes of the various groups.
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).