Discovery Tool Task Force

Established:  January 19, 2007 by the User Council

Draft Charge:

The Task Force will:

*Survey and assess available opportunities (and interests) in implementing discovery tools to enhance users' experience (including the pending prototype implementation of Primo at U of M);

*Investigate costs of acquisition, development, and maintenance;

*Recommend a course of action/s to be pursued by the Consortium of MnPALS Libraries for the benefits of its users (by a particular date);

*Implement and assess a prototype implementation (by a particular date); and

*Recommend appropriate improvements in the prototype and a path for future enhancements.

The goal should be to implement, in as short a time as possible and with full understanding and acceptance of costs by the consortium members, a discovery tool fulfilling the expectations of the wide variety of users found among members of the Consortium of MnPALS Libraries.

Members:

• Alec Sonsteby (Chair) – Concordia College
• Jennifer DeJonghe – Metropolitan State University
• Travis Dolence – Minnesota State University Moorhead
• Adam Marsnik, Normandale Community College
• Melissa Prescott – St. Cloud State University
• Evan Rusch – Minnesota State University, Mankato
• Al Rykhus (PALS)