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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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
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
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.
Category: Reference, 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
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 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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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