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(1)Report of the Executive Director to the. Consortium of MnPALS Libraries User Council and Executive Committee. Feb. 12,2015 Stephen Elfstrand PALS Executive Director.

(2) PALS and Libraries: Supporting the Life Cycle of Knowledge from Creation to Curation Library Management Systems  Discovery Systems  DAM/IR  Research Data  Open Access Publishing ? .

(3) PALS: Supporting the Life Cycle of Knowledge from Creation to Curation Research, and Data Management. Islandora. Curation DAM/IR. VuFind, Summon, Linker. User Discovery & Delivery. Islandora. Publication & Dissemination. Library Management. Open Publishing?. Aleph, Future ILS, ERM.

(4) Strategic Plan Goals ‘14-’16 Strengthen Financial Position Provide Outstanding ILS Services to the Consortium of MnPALS Libraries. Migrate Libraries from Aleph to the Next Generation Library System.

(5) Strategic Plan ’14-’16 GOALS. ?. Provide Superior Discovery Solutions Provide Digital Asset Management Systems and Support Investigate Open Access Publishing Systems Cultivate an Innovative and Effective Organization Communicate Effectively with Stakeholders ( & Market products ).

(6) Strengthen Financial Position FY14 & 15 . FY 14 & 15 Small Surplus. . Adding to HW and Future ILS accounts. . Haven’t gotten an increase from MnSCU for two years. . Next 2 years?.

(7) Strengthen Financial Position FY 15 & 16  Future. ILS [Library Services Platform (LSP)].  Centrally. Fund “More than Aleph”.  Web-Scale  DAM. /IR. Discovery for All.

(8) Strengthen Financial Position FY 15 & 16  Make. our case to:. ◦ Presented to CIO meeting in Dec ◦ “Charting the Future” Implementation Teams. ◦ Other MnSCU venues: Finance, College Presidents.

(9) Aleph V.22  Development. Server –. ◦ PALS Staff Testing 90% Done ◦ Client distributed to Libraries 3/2. ◦ Please test  Production. Upgrade: April 11-12. ◦ Issues: Priv Reports and Printing.

(10) Future ILS Financial Estimate – will continue to refine  Financial reserve is growing  Will need one-time money if we go with a cloud service .

(11) Future ILS . Products ready for MnPALS now (or nearly so) ◦ ALMA/Primo (Ex Libris) ◦ WSM/WSD (OCLC). . Promising products in development ◦ Intota/Summon(Proquest).

(12) Kuali OLE (Community Sourced)  PALS. is now a Development Partner  Beginning to meet with OLE Committees ◦ Board ◦ Consortium ◦ Functional Council.

(13) OLE Working with Board, Functional Council, Consortium Group and SMEs  Will release 2.0 with Global Open Knowledge Base (GoKB) for ERM  GoKB tightly integrated with OLE .

(14) Web-Scale Discovery . 19 subscribers. . At or above break-even $$$s. . Will continue to advocate for MnSCU funding for all. . Subscribers Wanted. . Consider joining!.

(15) PALSdiscover (VuFind 2.3) - Status . Working now on a Development Server ◦ Individual institution selection, Web interface (tabs etc.) ◦ Search, Browse, Summon API, Course Reserve, login and requests. . Still under construction ◦ Move to new Hardware ◦ Database update,Virtual hosts. . Production target: Mar 10 or May 10.

(16) PALSdiscover - What’s the Same? Look and feel  Functionality .

(17) VuFind 2.3 - What’s Improved Summon works on Mobile interface  Refworks and Endnote Export  Increased Customization . ◦ Each library gets it’s own virtual host. Zend framework  SOLR .

(18) VuFind Issues RDA Records  Indexing  Facets - unifying GMD and new versions of Media and Carrier types .

(19) Improved Mobile Interface.

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(21) SUMMON Results.

(22) SUMMON Record Display.

(23) Favorites, Cite, Email.

(24) Facets.

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(26) Digital Asset Management -Islandora Supported by:  Linda Richter  Alex Kent.

(27) Digital Asset Management -Islandora     . Manage and showcase your unique resources Make digital materials discoverable and accessible world-wide PALS hosting and support Migration services Cost effective pricing from PALS.

(28) Digital Asset Management -Islandora Four Customers!  MSU Mankato  Southwest Mn State Univ.  College of St. Scholastica  St Cloud Tech.

(29) Investigate: Open Access Publishing Systems . “Charting the Future” . Low cost/high quality, “best value” education    . . Increasing Cost of Journals & E-resources Increasing Cost of Tuition & Textbooks – College Affordability, Student debt Static Library Budgets. Open Publishing, Open Textbooks.

(30) Cultivate an Innovative and Effective Organization Team Building  “Strengths Finder”  Professional Development is a high priority . ◦ Kuali Community Workshop, ELUNA, MLA, Leadership Institute, Webinars . Community Engagement ◦ OLE Development partner, ELUNA Planning Committee, MnLINK Gateway RFP.

(31) Strategic Planning  Working. on New Strategic Plan. ◦ Survey ◦ Interviews ◦ Group Processes.

(32) PALS: Supporting the Life Cycle of Knowledge from Creation to Curation Research and Data Management. Islandora. Curation DAM/IR. VuFind, Summon, Linker. User Discovery & Delivery. Islandora. Publication Dissemination. Library Management. Open Publishing, Open Textbooks. Aleph, Next Gen Library System, ERM.

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