Report of the Executive Director

to the Executive Committee and User

Council

Sept. 12, 2013

Stephen Elfstrand

PALS Executive Director

Theme: PALS and Libraries

Supporting the Life Cycle of Knowledge

from Creation to Curation

PALS and Libraries:

Supporting the Life Cycle of Knowledge

from Creation to Curation

Research Data – Islandora

Open Access Publishing

Library Management Systems

◦ Aleph, Future ILS , Evergreen

◦ ERM

Discovery Systems

◦ WSD, VuFind, LINKER

DAM/IR – Islandora

Strategic Plan Goals through FY13

Strengthen Financial Position

Aleph Operation and Support

Evergreen Services to a Growing Clientele

Next Generation Library System

Provide Discovery Solutions

Strategic Plan Goals through FY13

Complementary Products LINKER, ERM

DAM / IR Islandora

Investigate Open Access Publishing Systems

Innovative and Effective Organization

Directions for the Next Plan

FY14-16 Financial –

◦ PALS as the Campus Cooperative for scholarship & library infrastructure

◦ GPS Lifeplan

ALEPH – v.22

Next-Gen ILS –

◦ ALMA, Intota, OLE, OCLC

◦ Ready for Serious Consideration

◦ Building up a reserve. Will it be enough?

Directions for the Next Plan

FY14-16

Evergreen - must increase user base

Discovery

◦ Web-scale Discovery for all

◦ VuFind 2.1

DAM / IR – ready to roll

◦ increase user base

◦ Include research data

Other ideas:

Expand Consortium when moving to the

Next-Gen ILS

Open Access Publishing

Open Textbook Repository

Take on other MnSCU Projects related to our

core mission (e.g.GPS Lifeplan)

Aleph

Service packs

Web Booking

LDAP Authentication to Aleph via

MnPALS Plus

RDA - indexing and facets for

formats

Annual Re-indexing

Aleph

Scrubbing Patron Information

◦ Important

Support Center Answers

◦ 3125 Remove Patron IDs cir-32 Service

◦ 3170 Circulation Logger Clean Up Service cir-

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Evergreen

ECRL to 2.4

NCIP Development

Prospects

Future ILS

Task Force Report on Nov.

Financial Reserve Started

Alma info at UMWUG and PALS

UG

Products getting much closer to

ready for PALS

Web-scale Discovery ◦ Success!

◦ Contract signed

◦ Good participation

◦Not quite break even yet

◦ Several more participants next year

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MnPALS Plus / VuFind

• Old version shut down

• New version up and running well

• PALS will begin working on VuFind 2.1

PALS: Supporting the Life Cycle of Knowledge

from Creation to Curation

Research Planning and

Data Management

Publication

Dissemination

Library Management

User Discovery

Curation DAM/IR

Islandora

OCS,

OJS

Aleph,

Future ILS,

Evergreen,

ERM

Consolidated

Index, VuFind,

Linker

Islandora