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Strategic Services

Collaborating to meet shared needs. 

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PALNI supported institutions work together to create and improve upon innovative solutions to meet shared needs. No matter what type of service your library is looking for, PALNI likely has expertise and resources that can help. Browse by service type or request a service using the form below.

All supported library staff may also request a service by emailing PALNI at this single address.

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Applications and Software

ACRL Benchmark

Description: Provides original report design and creation for institutions to leverage the dataset available within the ACRL Benchmark tool. Templates can be shared with the local institution or across PALNI.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Learn more about ACRL Benchmark assistance

API Development

Description: Empowers an application or platform to share its data with other apps/platforms and ease the user experience without involving the developers. Allows re-purposing KB/LM information in other applications.

Category: Information Systems and Technology; KnowledgeBase/License Manager Librarian and/or ERM

Augmented Reality Development

Description: Encourages active learning; augmented reality can be used with a patron's phone to provide interactive experiences within various library spaces (Innovation Grant Award).

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Collaborative Development: PALNI Sandbox Server and GitHub

Description: Provides a sandbox environment to enable individuals interested in coding and development the opportunity to write, store, and run code in a dedicated space and provide necessary server-based code libraries for development. The GitHub platform enables the sharing of code and collaborative development of code by individuals across PALNI.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Configuring and Optimizing Software Consultation

Description: Supports optimizing software through identified experts, admin teams, and coordinators. These individuals can work with libraries to ensure their systems and software are functioning to their fullest to optimize campus workflows.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

CONTENTdm Maintenance, Documentation, and Support

Description: Includes assistance with various aspects of digital projects, including mapping to Dublin Core, batch record loading, configuring collection website, and collecting statistics.

Category: PALNI Digital Admin Team

Digital Collection Solutions: Hyku and ContentDM

Description: Hosts and supports PALNI’s shared Hyku and CONTENTdm repository instances for digital collection needs.

Digital Scholarship Support

Description: Hosts an instance of Omeka-S for creating media-rich online exhibits, and supports collaboration in digital scholarship across the consortium.

Category: Publishing Services Admin Team

EBook Sharing

Description: Exploration of eBook lending tools such as Occam's Reader Evaluation.

Category: Fulfillment

ILS Management

Description: Provides a state-of-the art web-based library management system, used to manage print and digital resources so library users can find and request delivery of library resources.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Institutional Digital Repository Solution: Hyku

Description: Develops the cost-effective open-source consortial institutional repository platform Hyku, allowing institutions to capture, disseminate, and preserve their institutional outputs.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Library Dashboard Creation

Description: Designs data visualizations to allow libraries to monitor resources and services in graphic and interactive formats.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Library Publishing Platforms: PALNI Press

Description: Provides capacity to create and host open access publications via the PALNI Press using Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, Omeka, and Hyku.

Category: Publishing Services Admin Team

LMS Course Reading and Resource List Tool

Description: Constructs, in collaboration with the PALNI development team, a reading list tool to facilitate integration of library and open resources into courses within the learning management system. The interface is intended to provide a simple one click workflow to add materials of any format to a reading list.

Category: Instructional Technology

MarcEdit, OpenRefine for Data Manipulation

Description: Supports best practices for managing bibliographic data.

Category: WMS Workflows

Onebutton Development

Description: Presents a single button to patrons to intuitively request items through multiple systems. It automatically chooses the best delivery source based on availability or other parameters.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

OpenURL ILL Forms

Description: Takes the data from WorldCat Discovery via OpenURL and copies it into a web-based form. Users of Worldshare ILL sites do not need to type information about an item into a request form, reducing time and errors.

Category: Fulfillment

PALNI LibGuides Training and Support

Description: Provides an easy-to-use content management system that creates user-friendly websites.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

RDA Toolkit Funding

Description: Funds an integrated, browser-based, online product that allows users to interact with a collection of cataloging-related documents and resources including RDA: Resource Description and Access. PALNI licenses RDA Toolkit.

Category: PALNI Leadership

ROI Analysis and IDEA Survey Implementation and Assessment

Description: Supports open source survey instrument for libraries to gather feedback from stakeholders (faculty, administration, and staff) for "Assessing the Educational Role and Effectiveness of the Library at Your Institution."

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Self-Checkout

Description: Leveraging APIs, this custom software enables users to check out library materials themselves at a computer/barcode scanner set up in the library.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Shelflist Application

Description: Generates lists of library materials in the order they appear on library shelves. This utility is useful for many purposes such as inventory and shelving space analysis.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Skills Inventory

Description: Lists library staff and paraprofessionals and their current skill sets as well as skill set interests.

Category: Communications

Suma Space Assessment Tool

Description: Provides space assessment software that tracks behaviors of library users.

Category: Analytics/Assessment; Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Tech Tools Website

Description: Collects tools that are known to be in use across PALNI and have been evaluated for quality and ease of use, and vetted to ensure they meet accessibility and privacy standards.

Category: Instructional Technology

Usability Testing for WorldCat Discovery

Description: Conducts and reports about usability studies on the main library system used by PALNI.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Web Design

Description: Designs and manages palni.edu; consults for local library sites.

Category: Communications

WorldCat Discovery Search Forms

Description: Customizes search boxes with embeddable code sent to libraries in order to simplify the creation of Discovery search boxes.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Assessment

ACRL Benchmark

Description: Provides original report design and creation for institutions to leverage the dataset available within the ACRL Benchmark tool. Templates can be shared with the local institution or across PALNI.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Learn more about ACRL Benchmark assistance

Affordable Learning Data and Testimonial Collection

Description: Collects qualitative and quantitative data for the adoption of open resources, student success outcomes, and student perceptions of OER.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

Collaborative Workflow Analysis

Description: Offers distributed cataloging based on area of expertise.

Category: WMS Workflows

Collection Analysis

Description: Assists with use of tools for analyzing collection holdings and scope.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

View the Collection Assessment and Weeding Toolkit.

Consortial Licensing Negotiation: JSTOR and Oxford eBooks

Description: Evaluates usage and value of annual access to JSTOR and annual purchase of Oxford subject collections.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

COUNTER Subscription and Harvesting Support

Description: Supplies e-resource usage statistics for decision making and peer comparison.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian and/or KB/LM

Environmental Scanning in Higher Education

Description: Watches, plans, and capitalizes on impactful trends inside the library realm, higher education, and beyond.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Environmental Scanning in Specific Areas

Description: Watches, plans, and capitalizes on impactful trends inside the library realm, higher education, and beyond.

Category: All PALNI Groups

Fulfillment Annual Reconciliation

Description: Reviews yearly long overdue or missing PALShare items where libraries are reimbursed or invoiced for any lost items.

Category: Fulfillment

ILL Assessment

Description: Continues to look at the various ILL products and suggest enhancements.

Category: Fulfillment

Information Literacy Survey Instrument Development

Description: Provides recommendations on a tool for analyzing teaching and learning in libraries.

CategoryReference, Instruction, and Outreach

Instructional Peer Coaching

Description: Offers instruction librarians with peer feedback on their instruction sessions.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Investigate Emerging Technologies

Description: Focuses the Systems Landscape Assessment Task Force on identifying both emerging and existing technology to create efficiencies and enhanced collaboration. Each PALNI group investigates emerging technologies related to their area of activity.

Category: Information Systems Technology

IPEDS, ACRL, and ATS Survey Assistance and Assessment

Description: Supports data gathering to complete annual national surveys: ACRL, IPEDS, and ATS.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Library Dashboard Creation

Description: Designs data visualizations to allow libraries to monitor resources and services in graphic and interactive formats.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

OCLC Service Requests and Enhancements: Review, Prioritize, Respond

Description: Examines the monthly service request reports provided by OCLC to identify issues which may need additional attention or input from PALNI institutions or included on the monthly OCLC/PALNI account meetings.

Category: WMS Workflows

Pilot, Select, Propose, Manage, and Assess PALNI-Wide Acquisitions

Description: Evaluates products (not pursued already by ALI) with the highest value for the maximum number of libraries.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

ROI Analysis and IDEA Survey Implementation and Assessment

Description: Supports open source survey instrument for libraries to gather feedback from stakeholders (faculty, administration, and staff) for "Assessing the Educational Role and Effectiveness of the Library at Your Institution."

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Scholarly Communications Needs Assessment

Description: Supports consultations through on-site visits to determine needs and priorities for scholarly communications services.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Streaming Media Content Investigation and Evaluation

Description: Investigates educational licensing for streaming media platforms.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Study of Student and Faculty Habits (INAP)

Description: Maintains tools and mentorship to complete local qualitative assessment on information seeking behaviors and needs.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Suma Space Assessment Tool

Description: Provides space assessment software that tracks behaviors of library users.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

SUSHI Configuration Support

Description: Supplies automatic harvesting for e-resource usage statistics.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian or KB/LM

Tech Tools Website

Description: Collects tools that are known to be in use across PALNI and have been evaluated for quality and ease of use, and vetted to ensure they meet accessibility and privacy standards.

Category: Instructional Technology

Vendor Data Monitoring

Description: Examines Discovery metadata supplied by publishers and aggregators for errors or systematic issues for correction.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian or KB/LM

Best Practices

Accessibility

Description: Focuses on transcription, creating a culture of outreach, and LMS course design and content.

Category: Instructional Technology

Acquisitions

Description: Evaluates current and emerging acquisition models from a consortial perspective.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

ACRL Information Literacy Framework Support

Description: Continuously updated LibGuide with support for using the Framework.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Affordable Learning Support

Description: Provides support for locating, creating, and integrating open educational resources (OER) and other zero-cost materials within courses via faculty facing resources and PALSave Admin Team consultation.

Category: PALSave: Affordable Learning

Circulation Manual/Policy Development

Description: Maintains group circulation manual to assist libraries with PALShare settings and best practices.

Category: Fulfillment

Communication Best Practices Manual

Description: Covers best practices in relation to communicating about PALNI with stakeholders (e.g., elevator speeches, branding information, slides, etc).

The PALNI Communication Manual is  located as a LibGuide within the PALNI Community space.

For more information, contact the Strategic Communications Director.

Category: Communication

Communication Outreach Toolkit

Description: The Outreach Toolkit contains best practices, templates, and information for communicating the value of PALNI and the library with campus stakeholders.

The PALNI Outreach Toolkit is located as a LibGuide within the PALNI Community space.

For more information, contact the Strategic Communications Director 

Category: Communications

Copyright Best Practices and Consulting

Description: Builds expertise in copyright and creating policies and guides to follow best practices. The Scholarly Communications Director serves as a copyright consultant for the consortium.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Deflection Policy and Best Practices

Description: Assists with system configuration to automatically and correctly re-route material requests from other libraries that will be unable to be filled.

Category: Fulfillment

Implementation of Rightsstatements.org Metadata

Description: Provides standardized, easy to read rights statements letting users know how they can use digital assets.

Category: PALNI Digital Admin Team 

Instruction Curriculum Development

Description: Provides best practices for teaching and learning in libraries.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Instructional Design Best Practices, Training, and Support

Description: Utilizes the PALNI Community forums for best practice discussions. Each task force develops resources such as LibGuides and documents to share best practice information for specific areas.

Category: Instructional Technology

KnowledgeBase Documentation

Description: Maintains documentation for configuration and troubleshooting metadata for knowledge base collections.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian and/or KB/LM

MarcEdit, OpenRefine for Data Manipulation

Description: Supports best practices for managing bibliographic data.

Category: WMS Workflows

Metadata Mapping

Description: Helps repository users describe their digital assets in consistent ways.

Category: PALNI Digital Admin Team

Online and Blended Course Assessment Toolkit

Description: Offers resources to establish an assessment process including: a template and annotated rubric, a readiness inventory and related documents, and implementation and workflow notes.

Category: Instructional Technology

Open Access Publishing Support Model Development

Description: Maintains documentation for PALNI Press services such as consultation, documentation, and platform hosting and maintenance.

Category: Publishing Services Admin Team

PALNI Works Open Access Policy

Description: Shares PALNI outputs under a Creative Commons license to better enable sharing and reuse of our content with libraries and consortia.

Category: Scholarly Communications

RIO Interest Toolkits

Description: Creates LibGuides of information and resources on an applicable topic.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Shared LMS Investigation and Evaluation

Description: Shares information about the process several PALNI institutions have undertaken to evaluate and select an LMS via LibGuides to provide a resource for others considering an LMS change and to better understand the decision making process.

Category: Instructional Technology

WMS Workflows Recommendations

Description: Analyzes and recommends institution workflows for efficiencies, collaborative opportunities, and streamlining.

Category: WMS Workflows

Learn more about WMS Workflows Analysis recommendations and best practices. 

Workflow Analysis

Description: Analyzes library workflows for efficiencies, automation, and streamlining.

Category: WMS Workflows

Communication

Communication Outreach Toolkit

Description: The Outreach Toolkit contains best practices, templates, and information for communicating the value of PALNI and the library with campus stakeholders.

The PALNI Outreach Toolkit is located as a LibGuide within the PALNI Community space.

For more information, contact the Strategic Communications Director

Category: Communications

Community Space

Description: Provides internal discussion space (forums) where all staff in PALNI libraries and instructional technology can connect.

Category: Communications

Crisis Communication

Description: PALNI maintains and offers a Crisis Communication Toolkit intended to assist PALNI libraries in preparing crisis communication plans in advance to effectively communicate bad news for a variety of crises. 

Category: Communications

Instructional Technology Listserv and Blog

Description: Provides information for campus constituents who may not be a part of the PALNI Community site.

Category: Instructional Technology

Internal and External Press Releases and Advertisements

Description: Drafts press releases for PALNI events, award recognitions, project or initiative progress and success, and the like. Shared internally to campus stakeholders and externally to the outside world.

Category: Communications

Library Marketing and Graphic Design Assistance

Description: Assists with graphic design ranging from consultation to complete design of promotional materials for the libraries’ stakeholders and students.

Category: Communications

PALNI Services Onesheeters

Description: Summarizes a service, its benefits, and how to get set up.

Category: Communications

Social Media Management

Description: Promotes PALNI projects, services, and initiatives as well as individual PALNI libraries’ postings through social media including Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

Category: Communications

WMS Release Notes Summaries

Description: Summarizes new features of WMS library services platform.

Category: WMS Workflows

Community

Community Space

Description: Provides internal discussion space (forums) where all staff in PALNI libraries and instructional technology can connect.

Category: Communications

PALReads

Description: Offers a PALNI book club where interesting articles and books are discussed monthly.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Traveling Outreach Materials: Button Maker, Prize Wheel

Description: Curates collection of interactive items to borrow for outreach events.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Consulting

ACRL Benchmark

Description: Provides original report design and creation for institutions to leverage the dataset available within the ACRL Benchmark tool. Templates can be shared with the local institution or across PALNI.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Learn more about ACRL Benchmark assistance

Affordable Learning Initiative: PALSave

Description: Develops and administers PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning, a consortial program to lower the cost of textbooks.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

 

Affordable Learning Support

Description: Provides support for locating, creating, and integrating open educational resources (OER) and other zero-cost materials within courses via faculty facing resources and PALSave Admin Team consultation.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

Collaborative Workflow Analysis

Description: Offers distributed cataloging based on area of expertise.

Category: WMS Workflows

Configuring and Optimizing Software Consultation

Description: Supports optimizing software through identified experts, admin teams, and coordinators. These individuals can work with libraries to ensure their systems and software are functioning to their fullest to optimize campus workflows.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Copyright Best Practices and Consulting

Description: Builds expertise in copyright, support for policy creation, best practice guides, and community conversation. The Scholarly Communications Director serves as a copyright consultant for the consortium.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Crisis Communication

Description: PALNI maintains and offers a Crisis Communication Toolkit intended to assist PALNI libraries in preparing crisis communication plans in advance to effectively communicate bad news for a variety of crises. 

Category: Communication

Electronic Resource Management and Provider Wrangling

Description: Shares expertise on managing e-resources and advocates for cooperation between OCLC and content providers.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian and/or KB/LM

Grant Writing and Seeking

Description: Identifies needs, reviews proposals, develops timelines, and addresses roadblocks.

Category: All PALNI Groups

Instructional Peer Coaching

Description: Offers instruction librarians with peer feedback on their instruction sessions.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Instructional Tech and Campus Administrator Collaboration

Description: Identifies where the group initiatives may have potential benefits and alignment with campus administrator efforts and needs.

Category: Instructional Technology

KB/License Management

Description: Provides training, consultation and support for Collection Manager and License Manager.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian and/or KB/LM

Library Marketing and Graphic Design Assistance

Description: Assists with graphic design ranging from consultation to complete design of promotional materials for the libraries’ stakeholders and students.

Category: Communications

Metadata Mapping

Description: Helps repository users describe their digital assets in consistent ways.

Category: PALNI Digital Admin Team

OhioNet Ezproxy Services

Description: Provides Ezproxy server hosting and complete support. OhioNet handles the upgrades, security certificates, configuration files, etc.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian and/or KB/LM

Open Access Publishing Support Model Development

Description: Maintains documentation for PALNI Press services such as consultation, documentation, and platform hosting/maintenance.

Category: Publishing Services Admin Team

Original Cataloging/NACO/RDA Work

Description: Supports original cataloging and name authority creation on demand.

Category: NACO Team

PALSave Local Institutional Visits for Faculty Outreach

Description: Increases faculty awareness of open and affordable learning resources through on-site team-facilitated workshops.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

Scholarly Communications Awareness, Outreach, and Engagement

Description: Provides outreach initiatives such as workshops and support for local program development. The Scholarly Communication Faculty Engagement Toolkit provides resources to engage faculty in conversations about the publishing lifecycle.

Category: Scholarly Communications

 

 

Scholarly Communications Needs Assessment

Description: Supports consultations through onsite visits to determine needs and priorities for scholarly communications services.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Study of Student and Faculty Habits (INAP)

Description: Maintains tools and mentorship to complete local qualitative assessment on information seeking behaviors and needs.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Subject/Format/Language Specialties Cataloging Support

Description: Provides specialty cataloging for institutions without certain subject, format, or language expertise.

Category: WMS Workflows

SUSHI Configuration Support

Description: Supplies automatic harvesting for e-resource usage statistics.

Category: KnowledgeBase Librarian and/or KB/LM

Systems Contract Licensing and Negotiation

Description: Negotiates on behalf of PALNI libraries to contain costs and obtain group discounts.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Usability Testing for WorldCat Discovery

Description: Conducts and reports about usability studies on the main library system used by PALNI.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Web Design

Description: Designs and manages palni.edu; consults for local library sites.

Category: Communications

WMS Experts Program Coordination

Description: Deploys experts to provide training, insights, or advice on the WMS platform.

Category: WMS Workflows

Infrastructure

Community Space

Description: Provides internal discussion space (forums) where all staff in PALNI libraries and instructional technology can connect.

Category: Communications

Infrastructure for Staff Sharing and Deep Collaboration

Description: Creates and improves the logistics to support the PALNI principles of Deep Collaboration.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Innovation Grant

Description: Encourages libraries to take risks and evaluate innovations to optimize or create new library resources and services that expand the support of teaching and learning.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Lilly Endowment, Inc. Grant for PALSave

Description: Administers the $520,000 grant to support the PALSave program until 2024. The PALSave Admin is enacting the activities outlined in the grant, with administrative oversight from PALNI leadership.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

PALSave Faculty Grants

Description: Offers faculty stipends for open textbook review, adoption, and creation through the Lilly Endowment Grant for PALSave.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

PALSave Local Institutional Visits for Faculty Outreach

Description: Increases faculty awareness of open and affordable learning resources through on-site team-facilitated workshops.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

Shared Risk Taking/Innovation Projects

Description: PALNI and its supported institutions working together to innovate.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Shared Visioning

Description: Collaborates to develop a shared vision to address new institutional needs and missions as well as risks such as declining enrollments. Pilots new services and programs sharing the risk and the cost to support innovation.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Strategic Planning

Description: Sets the strategic vision of PALNI under which all goals, action items, projects and services fall.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Partnerships

ALI Committee Representation

Description: Attends meetings and advocates for PALNI with Academic Libraries of Indiana (ALI), such as the Information Literacy Committee.

Category: All PALNI Groups

ALI Licensing Collaboration

Description: Licenses resources with ALI for our institutions, and also collaborates on projects such as Scholarly Communication, Information Literacy, Resource Sharing, and the Shared Print project.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Assess Partnerships With Other Consortia for Licensing

Description: Investigates products offering favorable terms of use to consortia.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Collaborative Acquisitions With Other Groups

Description: Evaluates collection development strategies for coordinating with affinity groups.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Collection Management Strategy With ALI

Description: Represents the priorities of smaller academic libraries within committees and task forces.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Instructional Tech and Campus Administrator Collaboration

Description: Identifies where the group initiatives may have potential benefits and alignment with campus administrator efforts and needs.

Category: Instructional Technology

Lilly Endowment, Inc. Grant for PALSave

Description: Administers the $520,000 grant to support the PALSave program until 2024. The PALSave Admin is enacting the activities outlined in the grant, with administrative oversight from PALNI leadership.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

OCLC Representation

Description: Attends meetings and advocates for PALNI with vendor OCLC.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

PALSave Faculty Grants

Description: Offers faculty stipends for open textbook review, adoption, and creation through the Lilly Endowment Grant for PALSave.

Category: PALSave: Affordable Learning

Partnership Development

Description: Collaborates with other nonprofits to achieve a project, product, or service more effectively (higher quality and/or cost savings) by sharing expertise, infrastructure, and funding equally.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Personnel

Annual Onboarding Meeting and LibGuide Manual

Description: Includes fall Zoom meeting orienting new library staff; and LibGuide manual covering the basics of PALNI, how to connect with others in PALNI, and benefits of belonging to PALNI.

Category: Communications

Director's Mentorship Program

Description: Provides mentors for new directors to support understanding of PALNI Deep Collaboration and individual support for leadership and management.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Grant Writing and Seeking

Description: Identifies needs, reviews proposals, develops timelines, and addresses roadblocks.

Category: All PALNI Groups

Instructional Peer Coaching

Description: Offers instruction librarians with peer feedback on their instruction sessions.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Professional Development

Description: Includes, but is not limited to, in-person and virtual meetings, funding for steering to attend conferences and online courses, bringing in experts as consultants and/or meeting keynotes. Steering committee members from each group are funded for conferences that support strategic goals and share knowledge gained with the group.

Category: All PALNI Groups

Skills Inventory

Description: Lists library staff and paraprofessionals and their current skill sets as well as skill set interests.

Category: Communications

Professional Development

Director's Mentorship Program

Description: Provides mentors for new directors to support understanding of PALNI Deep Collaboration and individual support for leadership and management.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Innovation Grant

Description: Encourages libraries to take risks and evaluate innovations to optimize or create new library resources and services that expand the support of teaching and learning.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Leadership Development

Description: Funds leadership opportunities including the Harvard Leadership Institute for Academic Librarians program in order to develop a leadership and support the strength of the library during director/dean transitions.

Category: PALNI Leadership

PALReads

Description: Offers a PALNI book club where interesting articles and books are discussed monthly.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

Professional Development

Description: Includes, but is not limited to, in-person and virtual meetings, funding for steering to attend conferences and online courses, bringing in experts as consultants and/or meeting keynotes. Steering committee members from each group are funded for conferences that support strategic goals and share knowledge gained with the group.

Category: All PALNI Groups

Report Designer Development and Training

Description: Creates and supports custom WMS reports.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

Resource Management

ALI Licensing Collaboration

Description: Licenses resources with ALI for our institutions, and also collaborates on projects such as Scholarly Communication, Information Literacy, Resource Sharing, and the Shared Print project.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Assess Partnerships With Other Consortia for Licensing

Description: Investigates products offering favorable terms of use to consortia.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Collaborative Acquisitions With Other Groups

Description: Evaluates collection development strategies for coordinating with affinity groups.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Collection Analysis

Description: Assists with use of tools for analyzing collection holdings and scope.

Category: Analytics/Assessment

View the Collection Assessment and Weeding Toolkit.

Collection Management Strategy With ALI

Description: Represents the priorities of smaller academic libraries within committees and task forces.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Collection Management Strategy With PALNI

Description: Develops a plan to address local collection needs while expanding access to resources.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Consortial Licensing Negotiation: JSTOR and Oxford Ebooks

Description: Evaluates usage and value of annual access to JSTOR and annual purchase of Oxford subject collections.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

CONTENTdm Maintenance, Documentation, and Support

Description: Includes assistance with various aspects of digital projects, including mapping to Dublin Core, batch record loading, configuring collection website, and collecting statistics.

Category: PALNI Digital Admin Team

Digital Collection Solutions: Hykyu and CONTENTdm

Description: Hosts and supports PALNI’s shared Hyku and CONTENTdm repository instances for digital collection needs.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Digital Preservation System Support (InDiPres)

Description: Supports involvement in Indiana Digital Preservation (InDiPres) by offering a stipend to cover a portion of member fees.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Participation

Description: Allows special collections to be shared with a global audience and discovered alongside digital assets from other institutions.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Digital Scholarship Support

Description: Hosts an instance of Omeka-S for creating media-rich online exhibits, and supports collaboration in digital scholarship across the consortium.

Category: Publishing Services Admin Team

Digitization Grant Opportunities

Description: Supports projects to digitize historical materials by sharing expertise and providing coordination between potential project contributors. A recent example is the LSTA-funded project Collaboratively Preserving Rare Scholarship in Religiously Affiliated Libraries: PALNI Last Copies

Category: Scholarly Communications

ILS Management

Description: Provides a state-of-the art web-based library management system, used to manage print and digital resources so library users find and request delivery of library resources.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Institutional Digital Repository Solution: Hyku

Description: Develops the cost-effective open-source consortial institutional repository platform Hyku, allowing institutions to capture, disseminate, and preserve their institutional outputs.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Library Publishing Platform: PALNI Press

Description: Provides capacity to create and host open access publications via the PALNI Press using Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, Omeka, and Hyku.

Category: Publishing Services Admin Team

Onebutton Development

Description: Presents a single button to patrons to intuitively request items through multiple systems. It automatically chooses the best delivery source based on availability or other parameters.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

OpenURL ILL Forms

Description: Takes the data from WorldCat Discovery via OpenURL and copies it into a web-based form. Users of Worldshare ILL sites do not need to type information about an item into a request form, reducing time and errors.

Category: Fulfillment

PALShare Resource Sharing

Description: Provides documentation and configuration manual, reporting and assessment, as well as the activity of resource sharing between PALNI libraries.

Category: Fulfillment

Patron Driven Acquisition Investigation and Assessment

Description: Investigates ways libraries are using Patron Driven Acquisitions and determining how they relate to holdings in PALNI.

Category: Fulfillment

Pilot, Select, Propose, Manage, and Assess PALNI-Wide Acquisitions (Not Pursued Already by ALI)

Description: Evaluates products with the highest value for the maximum number of libraries.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Shared Collections and Prospective Collection Management

Description: Examines PALNI-level collection strategy both for current print collections and prospective print and electronic collections.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Support Internet Archive Digitization

Description: Provides consultation and project setup support for digitization through Internet Archive in Fort Wayne.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Systems Contract Licensing and Negotiation

Description: Negotiates on behalf of PALNI libraries to contain costs and obtain group discounts.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Usability Testing for WorldCat Discovery

Description: Conducts and reports about usability studies on the main library system used by PALNI.

Category: Reference, Instruction, and Outreach

WorldCat Discovery Search Forms

Description: Customizes search boxes with embeddable code sent to libraries in order to simplify the creation of Discovery search boxes.

Category: Information Systems and Technology

Resource Sharing

Affordable Learning Initiative: PALSave

Description: Collects qualitative and quantitative data for the adoption of open educational resources (OER) and other zero-cost materials, student success outcomes, and student perceptions of OER.

Category: PALSave: PALNI Affordable Learning

Develop and Manage a PALNI Collaborative Collections Policy

Description: Investigates coordinated purchasing possibilities among libraries.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Digital Preservation System Support (InDiPres)

Description: Supports involvement in Indiana Digital Preservation (InDiPres) by offering a stipend to cover a portion of member fees.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Participation

Description: Allows special collections to be shared with a global audience and discovered alongside digital assets from other institutions.

Category: Scholarly Communications

Digitization Grant Opportunities

Description: Supports projects to digitize historical materials by sharing expertise and providing coordination between potential project contributors. A recent example is the LSTA-funded project Collaboratively Preserving Rare Scholarship in Religiously Affiliated Libraries: PALNI Last Copies

Category: Scholarly Communications

Document Delivery Assessment

Description: Investigates alternative delivery methods and providing analysis of fulfillment methodologies including: ILL, acquisition, and article on demand solutions.

Category: Fulfillment

EBook Sharing

Description: Exploration of ebook lending tools such as Occam's Reader Evaluation.

Category: Fulfillment

Fulfillment Annual Reconciliation

Description: Reviews yearly long overdue or missing PALShare items where libraries are reimbursed or invoiced for any lost items.

Category: Fulfillment

InfoExpress Subsidy

Description: Provides a subsidy to all libraries for 4 or 5 day delivery of items with the remainder of the cost covered by the local institution.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Investigate Ways to Improve PALNI Resource Sharing

Description: Explores alternative fulfillment models including integration with resource vendors, OA content, or deeper collection partnerships.

Category: Fulfillment

Library Publishing Platforms: PALNI Press

Description: Provides capacity to create and host open access publications via the PALNI Press using Open Journal Systems (OJS), Pressbooks, Omeka, and Hyku.

Category: Publishing Services Admin Team

PALShare Resource Sharing

Description: Provides documentation and configuration manual, reporting, and assessment, as well as the activity of resource sharing between PALNI libraries.

Category: Fulfillment

Partnership for Shared Book Collections

Description: Supports membership in a federation of shared print monograph programs in North America supporting cost-effective retention and access to print book collections.

Category: PALNI Leadership

Shared Collections and Prospective Collection Management

Description: Examines PALNI-level collection strategy both for current print collections and prospective print and electronic collections.

Category: Collection Management Policy Team

Tipasa Development, Migration Assistance, and Assessment

Description: Supports Tipasa, OCLC's next-generation resource sharing interlibrary loan software.

Category: Fulfillment