Report of the Executive Director to the. User Council and Executive Committee. Feb. 12,2015 Stephen Elfstrand PALS Executive Director

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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 Islandora Curation DAM/IR Publication & Dissemination Open Publishing? VuFind, Summon, Linker User Discovery & Delivery Library Management Aleph, Future ILS, ERM

4 Strategic Plan Goals 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 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 Discovery for All DAM /IR

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 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 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,

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 Islandora Curation DAM/IR Publication Dissemination Open Publishing, Open Textbooks VuFind, Summon, Linker User Discovery & Delivery Library Management Aleph, Next Gen Library System, ERM