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- Title
- 2006 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. User Fees and Participant Charges for FY 2007 were approved. Motion passed: to appoint a task force to look at fees for training and other training issues.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-02-02
- 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.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-09-18
- Years
- 2005-2009
- 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.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
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- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-02-01
- 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 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 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.
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- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-11-13
- 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
- 2006 05 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Elections held. It was suggested that the MnSCU Library Director's website be linked from the PALS Website. It was recommended and approved that the Task Force chairs work on revising the current Task Force document.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-05-04
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2006 02 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. A group was formed to edit the Access Task Force process document and make it generic.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-02-02
- 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
- 2005 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. EC will send a representative to the UC meetings. Standardize dates for User Group meetings as last week of October and second week of April. Motion passed: to rewrite the charge for the Access Task Force. Mission statement and goals were approved by EC and distributed to UC members.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2005-09-08
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2005 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: that the top 3 priorities for this year are Migration, ILL, and version 17. Motion passed: that the PALS office continue to communicate regarding approved changes as they are done; and identify approved changes likely to be worked on in the coming year. Additionally, Council requests that the PALS office communicate which approved changes they expect will be fixed in version 17, and which approved changes are unlikely to be addressed this year. Motion passed: The User Council will override the current bylaws and temporarily allow a librarian currently not in the Serials and Acquisitions area to convene this user group. Motion passed: Until all the MnPALS consortium libraries are on version 17, or until the Access Task Force has a chair, the group will focus on the following two efforts. 1) Review the backlog of approved work requests from the Access Task Force and the Customization Task Force that preceded it, to reconsider the work and priorities assigned. 2) Focus on textual issues related to the public access screens. The name of the User Council will be "Consortium of MnPALS Libraries User Council." Motion passed: The User Council appoint Keith Ewing to serve as the MATF Chair through the spring of 2006.
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- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2005-11-10
- 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
- 2008-04-17 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.
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- Cataloging User Group
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2008-04-17
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 11 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Waldo consortium in NY has signed a contract with Koha LibLime. Discussion on the merits of one or two-day user group meetings, including workdays discussion.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-11-01
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2006 09 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Outside firm has been hired to update the PALS Web site.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2006-09-07
- Years
- 2005-2009
- Title
- 2007 02 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
- Description
- Executive Committee Meeting Minutes. Motion passed: to accept the recommended 7% increase for PALS fees in 2008. Motion passed: to accept the proposed increase and additions to the Participant Library Charges.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-02-01
- 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
- 2007 04 User Council Meeting Minutes
- Description
- User Council Meeting Minutes. Motion Passed: to continue consortium meetings with MnPALS staff and request that the EC look at the governance structure and priorities in the fall.
- Group
- Executive Committee and User Council, User Groups
- Form
- Minutes
- Date
- 2007-04-26
- 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