Alma/Primo VE Production Release
2021-10-03, 2022-01-09 | MN, United States
These scheduled, monthly production releases apply to Alma, Primo VE, Leganto, and Esploro.
Click here for the .ics file to add to your calendar.

Discovery (Primo VE) Community of Interest
2021-10-07 13:00 - 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Online Meeting
Are you interested in connecting with other PALS librarians in a Discovery (Primo VE) Community of Interest? Join us for a discussion and planning meeting as we imagine what such a group could look like, and how we might build community and share tips and strategies between our varied and knowledgeable members on October 7, 2021, from 1:00 pm-2:30 pm via Zoom.
Agenda:

Introductions

In hopes of building community and facilitating networking, please be prepared to have your video turned on and share a bit about yourself.

Main discussion

What do you hope to gain from participation in a potential Discovery discussion group going forward? In addition to big picture hopes, we’ll consider logistical details, too.
Examples of talking points this discussion group could include

Next steps

Tentative start date
Next meeting time/date
Call for a launch team and/or chair(s) – to coordinate with Perry from the Pals office re: meetings, do the communication, come up with the first meeting agenda, etc.

To help us get a sense of numbers to better facilitate discussion, please RSVP if you plan to come. If you don’t RSVP and still want to come, please do so using the Zoom link provided below.
Christina Koss is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: PALS Discovery Community of Interest
Time: Oct 7, 2021, 01:00 PM Central Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
https://stkate.zoom.us/j/95275837645?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting ID: 952 7583 7645
Passcode: [REDACTED]

RIPL (Reference & Instruction Discussion Group)
2021-10-28 13:00 - 14:30 | MN, United States
Please join us for the October RIPL meeting (October 28, at 1:00pm) in which we will discuss Barbara Fister’s recent Atlantic article, The Librarian War Against Q Anon. This article was recommended by a RIPL member, and it will continue our discussion of the academic library’s role in combating misinformation/disinformation that we began last April. The Zoom Link for the meeting is on the PALS Events Calendar.
Also, please remember to provide your ideas about topics to discuss for the 21/22 Academic Year in our Survey, and submit your name via the survey if you are willing to serve as a RIPL co-chair. Your suggestions are very helpful as we plan topics from month-to-month.
October 28, RIPL Agenda
Open Forum: Are you dealing with a problem you want to bring before the group to find solutions? Do you have a burning question you want to ask the group? Do you have a success you’d like to share? What about a frustration you want to vent about? Open Forum is the time to do so! All topics of conversation are welcome.
Article Discussion: The Librarian War Against Q Anon by Barbara Fister

As Fister notes in the article, too often “information literacy has no specific place in the curriculum. It’s everywhere, and nowhere. It’s everyone’s job, but nobody’s responsibility.” To what degree is this reflected on your campus? Do you think that librarians are seen as “responsible” for information literacy instruction on your campus? If so, what is the nature of this responsibility and how did you acquire it? If not, how do you think we can change this, individually and collectively?
What do you think Fister means when she says that Q Anon provides its adherents something that is scarce in the classroom, “information agency.” Do you agree with this critique? How can we better provide students with “information agency” in the information literacy classroom?
To what degree do our current methods of information literacy instruction reflect Fister’s critique that too often our instruction involves, “canned classroom situations [that] don’t necessarily translate to complex realities,” failing to provide students an understanding of how information systems “make choices about which messages to promote and how those choices intersect with political messaging and the social engineering of interest groups?” To what degree are older instructional methods for evaluating information (e.g. CRAAP, CAAPS, or etc.) implicated in this critique? Have you used any methods that you think may avoid this critique?
How might librarians respond to the modern conspiracy theorist’s seemingly empirical and evidence-based imposition to “Do your own research.” Does this undercut what we do, or might it be an opportunity?
If librarians are in a “post-truth” environment, does our commitment to providing users with whatever type of information they’re requesting change in any way? (e.g., the Library Bill of Rights’ second article: “Libraries should provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.”).
How do you separate personal political/religious views from the equation (if you do) when teaching about fake news, conspiracy theories, etc.?

We hope to see you there,
Adam Bezdicek, Librarian, Hennepin Technical College
Scott Kaihoi, Reference & Instruction Librarian, Bethel University
No recording available

Discovery Community of Interest: Sandboxes
2021-11-04 14:30 - 15:30 | MN, United States
The Discovery Community of Interest is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Join Zoom Meeting
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/96869983366
Meeting ID: 968 6998 3366
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Topic: Sandboxes (Presented by Perry Madden, PALS):
Using the Sandboxes for Discovery exploration and experimentation.

Sandbox etiquette/expectations
Sandbox info that may be unique to the Primo VE/Discover side of things
Sandbox best practices/recommendations
Sandbox limitations
Sandbox refresh frequency

ILL Community of Interest
2021-11-08 14:30 - 15:30 | MN, United States
Topic: How You Deal with Overdue/Lost ILLs and Your Delivery Methods Tips/Questions
Facilitator: Diana Lundell, Saint Paul College
Watch the MnPALS list for login information.

RIPL (Reference & Instruction Discussion Group)
2021-11-18 13:00 - 14:30 | MN, United States
Topic: Our theme is libraries and collaboration, and in preparation for the meeting we’d like people to consider the following article and discussion questions:
Felix, Elliot. (2019). “Five Tips for Effective Student Service Collaboration.” https://www.brightspotstrategy.com/integrated-student-services-departmental-collaboration/

What are the most important potential collaborations for a library and why? (or why isn’t collaboration important, if you don’t think it is?)
What is the most interesting library collaboration you’ve heard of -OR- the most interesting you’ve tried in a library that you worked for?
If you could get automatic buy-in from other offices in your organization, which collaborations would you prioritize and why?
Do you have stories of particularly successful or unsuccessful collaborations? (and what made them so good/bad?)
Do you have any suggestions for getting around the most typical barriers to collaboration?

No recording available.

PALS OFFICE CLOSED
2021-11-25 - 2021-11-26, 2021-12-23 - 2021-12-24, 2021-12-30 - 2021-12-31 | MN, United States

MnPALS Consortium Board meeting
2021-12-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Meeting
Everyone in the MnPALS Consortium is welcome to attend the governance meetings of the MnPALS Consortium Board.
Participation will be available through chat/Q&A.
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/95795937308?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Discovery Community of Interest: Collection Discovery
2021-12-02 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Meeting
The Discovery Community of Interest is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Zoom Meeting Recording
Topic: Collection Discovery for Primo VE
Full Meeting Agenda (Google Drive)

RIPL (Reference & Instruction Discussion Group)
2021-12-16 13:00 - 14:30 | MN, United States
Topic: Carried over from November meeting due to limited attendance.
Our theme is libraries and collaboration, and in preparation for the meeting we’d like people to consider the following article and discussion questions:
Felix, Elliot. (2019). “Five Tips for Effective Student Service Collaboration.” https://www.brightspotstrategy.com/integrated-student-services-departmental-collaboration/

What are the most important potential collaborations for a library and why? (or why isn’t collaboration important, if you don’t think it is?)
What is the most interesting library collaboration you’ve heard of -OR- the most interesting you’ve tried in a library that you worked for?
If you could get automatic buy-in from other offices in your organization, which collaborations would you prioritize and why?
Do you have stories of particularly successful or unsuccessful collaborations? (and what made them so good/bad?)
Do you have any suggestions for getting around the most typical barriers to collaboration?

No recording available

Discovery Community of Interest
2022-01-06 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Meeting
Zoom Recording: https://minnstate.zoom.us/rec/share/rZZtJs5fDTg3JbjIx1F5ey5DpZuJAO2vKmUg5M_PJuGR3aFTtcMbyLuE2uJlTNz6.6eeTNpWNtgXPgG9P
Meeting ID: 968 6998 3366
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Agenda/Meeting Notes: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1I-ZDUAJQP-sWdgPIqzBZvggavj2WoWe3xQQ4S71vROI/edit?usp=sharing

January Primo VE Release review
Main Discussion

Who is “in charge” of discovery at your institution? E.g. who keeps track of monthly updates, decides which ones to implement; who does usability testing; who makes decisions about changes to the interface?

Open Floor

What would you like to discuss?

MnPALS Consortium Board meeting
2022-01-12 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Meeting
Everyone in the MnPALS Consortium is welcome to attend the governance meetings of the MnPALS Consortium Board.
Participation will be available through chat/Q&A.
January agenda
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/95795937308?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Meeting of the Minds
2022-01-12 14:00 - 15:00 | Online Meeting
These MnPALS consortium meetings are held virtually on the second Wednesday of each month. Watch the MnPALS list for login information.
To sign up for the MnPALS mailing list, please go the MnPALS Essentials guide.

RIPL (Reference & Instruction Discussion Group)
2022-01-27 13:00 - 14:30 | MN, United States
Topic: For this meeting, we are going to do something slightly different. Rather than having a set theme, we are going to extend the “Open Forum” portion of the meeting to the full hour, soliciting questions and discussion topics from the group. If you have a question or topic you would like to discuss at the meeting, please submit it in advance using this form by Monday, January 24th. Questions/Topics could be related to anything involving reference, instruction, outreach, assessment, problems you are facing this semester, something you’ve done that you are proud of, or etc. We will try to send the submissions out on January 25th, so that people can give some forethought to the topics of discussion.
No Recording Available

Discovery Community of Interest
2022-02-03 14:00 - 15:00 | MN, United States
Zoom Recording Link
Meeting ID: 968 6998 3366
Passcode: [REDACTED]
February Agenda/Meeting Notes (Google Doc):

Primo VE Release review
Main Discussion (see full agenda)
Open Floor

What would you like to discuss?

MnPALS Consortium Board meeting
2022-02-08 11:00 - 12:00 | MN, United States
February 8 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Everyone in the MnPALS Consortium is welcome to attend the governance meetings of the MnPALS Consortium Board.
Participation will be available through chat/Q&A.
https://minnstate.zoom.us/j/96460305623?pwd=[REDACTED]
Passcode: [REDACTED]

Agenda

Cataloging Community of Interest
2022-02-10 10:00 - 11:30 | MN, United States

Sandbox Refresh
2022-02-13 | MN, United States
The sandboxes will be refreshed by Ex Libris.

RIPL (Reference & Instruction Discussion Group)
2022-02-24 13:00 - 14:30 | MN, United States
Topic: We hope you will join us February 24th at 1:00pm for the RIPL (Reference & Instruction PALS Librarians) discussion of Accessibility and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in library reference & instruction services. To bring us all up to speed for the conversation we will be reading the ACRL’s Keeping Up With….Universal Design for Learning blog post. If you are completely new to UDL, you can also check out CAST’s UDL Guidelines and the article Applying Universal Design to Information Literacy (PDF download) for some ideas on how UDL has been applied to IL instruction in the past (see especially the chart on page 4).
Here are the discussion questions:

What policies or best practices does your library have related to accessibility in instruction, research guides, the library website, etc.?
Do you incorporate Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles in your instruction?

If so, which ones, and how well have they worked?
If not, why not?

What tools or strategies do you find most useful in making sure your online tools and instruction are accessible?
Are there any tools, physical spaces, vendors, etc. your library has that you know have accessibility issues that you are unable to fix/address?

No Recording Available

MnPALS Consortium Board Meeting
2022-03-02 11:00 - 12:00 | MN, United States
March 2 @ 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Everyone in the MnPALS Consortium is welcome to attend the governance meetings of the MnPALS Consortium Board.
Participation will be available through chat/Q&A.
Meeting Link
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Agenda

Discovery Community of Interest
2022-03-03 14:00 - 15:00 | MN, United States
Topic: Discovery Community of Interest
Start Time: Mar 3, 2022 01:48 PM
Meeting Recording:
https://minnstate.zoom.us/rec/share/HZ6Q19w_Wal_kjc63hHuvsxYlJZN5ff3Vu832TEOFcDBzLV6Rnko_0Wo3tJkni2Y.q2dxVoAqQUVRM8bV
Meeting ID: 968 6998 3366
Passcode: [REDACTED]
Agenda/Meeting Notes:

Primo VE Release review
Main Discussion: Show and Tell: ILL/Resource Sharing Request Form

What do these forms look like in your system? How do they compare to forms from other institutions? Let’s find out! We will be using a ‘jamboard’ to share screenshots of these forms.

Open Floor

What would you like to discuss?

Web Community of Interest meeting
2022-03-17 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Meeting
Meetings are held on the third Thursday of each month.
Click here for Zoom link, recordings, etc.

ILL Community of Interest
2022-03-21 14:30 - 15:30 | MN, United States
Topic: Copyright
Date: March 21, 2022
Time: 2:30 pm-3:30pm
Facilitator: Colleen Deel, Bemidji State University
Meeting link and passcode in PALS Support Center

RIPL (Reference & Instruction Discussion Group)
2022-03-31 13:00 - 14:30 | MN, United States
Topic: The ACRL Framework for Information Literacy: Assessing its Usefulness and Impact 6 Years Later
It has been 8 years since the ACRL released the initial draft of the ACRL Framework in 2014 to no small amount of controversy and debate, and 6 years since the final draft was released in 2016. While the initial controversy has died down, recent research shows that librarian opinions about the Framework and their abilities to adapt it are still somewhat mixed.
To assess how the dust has settled on the initial controversy, we’ll be reading the article Implementing the ACRL Framework: Reflections from the Field by Don Latham, Melissa Gross, and Heidi Julien, and discussing how the ACRL Framework has impacted (or not impacted) our approaches to information literacy instruction, for better or worse. If you haven’t looked at them in a while, you can also check out The Framework for Information Literacy and ACRL’s older Information Literacy Competency Standards for Higher Education as a comparison.
Discussion Question Agenda:

Have you used the ACRL Framework to inform any aspect of instructional design for information literacy instruction at your library? If you were using ACRL’s Standards for Information Literacy before, did you switch to the Framework, or keep using the Standards?
If you have used the Framework, what aspects have you found most helpful for instructional design, especially compared to ACRL’s older Standards for Information Literacy? Do you have any specific instructional sessions you’ve done that you feel are especially good at teaching one or more of the frames?
What aspects of the Framework have you found most difficult to adapt? Are there any particular frames that you find troublesome?
If you don’t make use of the Framework for instructional design, are there any other models of Information Literacy that you do use? E.g. The original ACRL Standards, the 7 Pillars, meta-literacy approaches, or etc. Why do you find these models more helpful than the Framework?
Do you have any ongoing issues or critiques with particular frames from the Framework that we haven’t touched upon yet?

We hope to see you there!

Discovery Community of Interest
2022-04-07 14:00 - 15:00 | MN, United States
Zoom Recording: https://minnstate.zoom.us/rec/share/CweqfrcgNm_awii_Zp9RpnGEdgOedkgBCFQtIPwWiPtJNCBkMF2s2wAWgT8BOg2E.6LRfHu9mKiBDX8iF
Agenda/Meeting Notes:

Primo VE Release review
Main Discussion: Facets

You can add screenshots of your facets before the discussion here (Note: You may have different facets appearing for different scopes):
https://jamboard.google.com/d/1_s06WWrXwsPhfyIcZWWjSS6Nk4qdJ7AVZ84cIzX9biM/edit?usp=sharing

Open Floor

What would you like to discuss?

MnPALS Consortium Board meeting
2022-04-13 13:00 - 14:00 | Online Meeting
Everyone in the MnPALS Consortium is welcome to attend the governance meetings of the MnPALS Consortium Board.
Participation will be available through the chat/Q&A.
Meeting Link
Passcode:
[REDACTED]

RIPL (Reference & Instruction Discussion Group)
2022-04-28 13:00 - 14:30 | MN, United States
Topic: Library involvement in Open Educational Resource (OER) initiatives

Does your institution have an OER or Affordable Course Resources initiative? If so…

Did you help to spearhead the initiative, or did you come alongside one that a different department started? (either way, what did getting involved initially look like for your library?)
What does your ongoing involvement look like?

What has worked well?
What has been challenging?
What recommendations do you have for libraries who would like to be a part of such an initiative?
If your library is not involved in any sort of OER initiative but you have been interested in it, what has kept you from it?
