Pages
- Title
- 2009 11 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- 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
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-11-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-11-12
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 User Group Meeting Full PALS Report
- Description
- The report includes all PALS subsystem reports and information about task forces, office teams, and MnLINK Gateway.
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- User Groups
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 User Group Meeting Agenda
- Description
- 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.
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- User Groups
- Form
- Agenda
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 Cataloging User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Description
- Topics discussed include legacy data in MARC records, workday planning, and elections.
- Group
- Cataloging User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 User Group Meeting MnPALS Plus Working Group Report
- Description
- Topics discussed include the creation of a Working Group and usability testing the release of MnPALS Plus version 2.
- Group
- User Groups
- Form
- Report
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009-10 Systems User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
- Group
- Systems User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-10-28
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-09-10
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2009 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Resolution with Ex Libris regarding Aleph maintenance contract; working with Minnesota State University, Mankato to implement a virtual machine (VM) cluster; discussion about governance structure being based on the old module-based PALS structure; PALS commitment to Evergreen; second Location for PALS Office discussion; 360 Degree Feedback (Performance Reviews) for Stephen Elfstrand and Todd Digby; spending cuts for PALS Office; transferring staff knowledge.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2009-09-10
- 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
- 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 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
- 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
- 2008-10 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.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Report
- 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.
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- Cataloging User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-10-29
- 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 09 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- 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.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-09-18
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2008 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. PALS Office formed a marketing committee. Motion passed: to restructure User Group meetings to one hour subsystem group meetings for business only and add breakout sessions. Mike Barnett retired.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-09-18
- 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.
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- Interlibrary Loan User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-05-17
- Years
- 2005-2009