Service Pack 2321 will be installed on our Aleph (production) early Sunday morning. The system will be unavailable while this occurs.

The ALEPH Minor Release called Service Pack 2278 will be installed on production early Sunday morning. The system will be unavailable while this occurs. If all goes well, the system should be available by 10:00 a.m.

Sunday, March 31, 2013, the Library of Congress is adopting a new cataloging standard called Resource, Description and Access (or RDA) for most of its cataloging.

PALS is in the process of looking for a web scale discovery vendor for the consortium. An RFP has been written and released, and we received three responses.

A new report that provides a budget summary of a selected budget on a specified date has been added to the priv. reports. The Budget on Summary Date (priv-30) output lists initial allocation, allocation, encumbrances, invoices, payments, free balance, total allocated balance, actual balance and other general budget information. The purpose of the report is to obtain a budget summary snapshot on any given date. This report can be run on active or non-active budgets.

Mark your calendars now for Wednesday, October 30, 2013 and plan to attend the Consortium of MnPALS Libraries User Group meeting which is being held in conjunction with the Ex Libris Upper MidWest User Group meeting on October 28-29. Both conferences will be held at the Radisson Hotel in Roseville.