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.
2012-4 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday MnPALS Plus Digital Sets
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The presentation discussed MnPALS Plus digital resource sets. Sets are loaded into MnPALS Plus for patron discovery and access. Sets mentioned in the presentation include Films on Demand, Credo Reference, ebrary, Alexander Street Press Video, Oxford Reference, MN Digital Library Collections, and Minitex eBooks.
2012-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include using the EDI Invoicing procedure through Baker & Taylor or Yankee Book Peddler, Aleph version 21 enhancements, and elections: Nat Gustafson-Sundell and Rachel Wexelbaum were elected for a two-year term for 2012 to 2014. Becky Schwartzkopf agreed to act as recorder for 2012 to 2014.
2011-4 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday Agenda
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The 2011 Acquisitions/Serials and Cataloging Workday included sessions on OCLC local holding records, patron driven acquisition systems, copyright, and the move to RDA.
2010-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include concerns about EBSCO's service and serial pricing, the subsystem version 20 update, workdays, and elections: The group unanimously voted for Rachel to continue as Convener. Sarah Monson was elected Recorder for a two year term, effective fall 2010.
2009-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Topics discussed include a 2010 spring workday, the Acq/Serials wiki page, and elections. Motion passed: Jean Kramer was elected Acq/Serials User Council Rep for a two year term, beginning Spring 2010.
2008-10 User Group Meeting Breakout Session Exporting LHR (Local Holding Records) to OCLC
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Summary: PALS has recently sent a test LHR file to OCLC for Inver Hills Community College. The PALS office was able to pull the necessary holding information and fix certain tag fields in the file for this test load. The data is only fixed in the file. We are not able to fix the data in the holding record. This session will inform libraries on the correct data needed in their serial holding records. Libraries can then clean up their records and also understand how to create new serial holding records with the correct tag information. This is documentation related to the presentation,
2008-10 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
Description
Dee Nolan describes upcoming functional training on aquisitions, discussion on reports for dealing with serials and local holding records, reports useful for completing library surveys such as NCES (formerly IPEDS), and planning for workday.
2008-04 Acquisitions/Serials User Group Meeting Minutes and Agenda
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Reviewed PALS report. Email lists reduced to two: MnPALS Announce & MnPALS Discuss. Elections were held. Secretary - Michelle Ehlert (Metro State) was unanimously approved. User Council Representative-Heather Biedermann (MSU-Mankato) was unanimously approved. Both are for 2 year terms beginning in May. Michelle will also serve as an alternate to the User Council. Aleph version 18 enhancements discussed.
