1. Alan Rykhus – MnSCU/PALS Evan Rusch – Minnesota State University, Mankato

2.  PALS – Project for Automated Library Systems, based in the Minnesota State, Mankato Library  Developed homegrown ILS for state libraries and beyond.  In 2003-2004 supported migration to Aleph ILS

3.  Establish January 19, 2007 by User Council  Charge: “survey and assess available, opportunities (and interests) in implementing discovery tools to enhance users' experience”  U of Minnesota Alpha Library for Primo, is that the right fit for us?  Survey says consortia members “overwhelmingly desired an OPAC enhancement over all sorts of other discovery tools”  Also “implement and assess a prototype implementation recommend appropriate improvements…and a path for future enhancements.”

4.  June 2007 – started investigating fac_back_opac  Backup Web OPAC using Solr at Laurentian University  March 21, 2008 – starting looking at VuFind  October 2008 – MnPALS Plus in Production  February 2009 – DTTF disbands, MnPALS Plus Working Group is born  March 2009 – ODIN live using MnPALS Plus  2011 – Decided to go back to VuFind base  August 2011 – Bridge Consortia goes live  VuFind 1.2 implemented by MnSCU/PALS  October 2011 – mPlus live

5.  Open Source Project @ Vilanova University  Uses a number of Open Source Tools  Apache HTTP Server  Apache Solr  PHP Scripting Language  MySQL Database  SolrMarc Indexer for MARC Records  Smarty PHP Template Engine  Being replaced by Zend Framework

6.  Library Resource Portal  Web OPAC Overlay  Discovery Tool  Library Site Search Engine

7.  Import records from various sources  MARC Records from your ILS or other sources  Films on Demand  Alexander Street Press  Credo Reference  Minitex eBooks  EBSCO ebrary  Process the records through SolrMarc  SolrMarc puts the records into a format that Solr understands - XML

10.  Fast and scalable  Full-Text Searching  Faceted Search and Filtering  Highlighting  Multiple Search Indexes  More like this or similar documents  Word stemming  Spelling suggestions  Sorting

11.  Widely Used  Hathi Trust  Smithsonian Institute  SourceForge  Open Source Software Site  The White House  Sears  NetFlix  TicketMaster  eHarmony  http://wiki.apache.org/solr/PublicServers

12.  Alphabetic Browse  Bookcovers, Reviews, Excerpts, Author Notes from a variety of sources  Syndetics  Amazon  Guardian  Summon  LibraryThing  OpenLibrary  ContentCafe  Google  HathiTrust  WorldCat  Wikipedia

16.  Films on Demand  EBSCO eBooks  Proquest ebrary  EBSCO eBooks  Alexander Street Press  Credo Reference  Oxford Reference  Legislators Past and Present - CSV File  ContentDM – Dublin Core

20.  VuFind built-in features  Tag Records  Save Records to Lists  Create Multiple Lists  Save Searches  Text Records  Email Searches and Records  RSS Feeds  Add Comments to Records

23.  Added Through The Aleph Driver  Display Loans  Renew loans  Display Holds  Create and Cancel Holds  Display Fines  Display ILL Requests  Create, Renew, and Cancel ILL Requests  Display Bookings  Cancel Bookings  Change Aleph Password

30.  MnPALS Plus Working Group  Replaced DTTF  Online Meetings bimonthly  PALS Forum  RNT Tickets  General Feedback from Librarians

31.  Individual Library customization vs. Consortium decisions  Communication about complex vs. simple enhancements

32.  Integration with other Solr Databases  EBSCO  Primo  Summons  Virtual Hosts For Consortia  Separate Configurations For Each Library  Allows Individual Library Customizations  Customized Authentication For Each Library  Zend Framework For Display Templates