Committee Charge: In order to better serve both patron and staff end users, the User Experience Committee will discuss and recommend to the Administrative Council services and configurations in order to optimize usability.

Who Should Attend: Members of the Committee and any other interested parties.

Registration Link: Use the Zoom link to register: Register Here

Meeting Documents: Visit the PrairieCat website to access meeting documents. 

Join us for a PrairieCat Member Update. Hear the latest from PrairieCat staff and your colleagues from across the consortium.

Registration Link: Use the Zoom link to register: Register Here

View Member Update Recording: View recording here (expires Nov 2024)

Join us for a PrairieCat Member Update. Hear the latest from PrairieCat staff and your colleagues from across the consortium.

Join us for a PrairieCat Member Update. Hear the latest from PrairieCat staff and your colleagues from across the consortium.

This committee creates training resources for staff and patrons, reviews and recommends potential enhancements suggested by the PrairieCat staff and members for submission to Innovative, and reviews and recommends approved Innovative enhancements for voting by PrairieCat.

Who Should Attend: Members of the Committee and any other interested PrairieCat members.

Registration Link: Use the Zoom link to register: Register Here           

Meeting Documents: Visit the PrairieCat website to access meeting documents. 

Join us for a PrairieCat Member Update. Hear the latest from PrairieCat staff and your colleagues from across the consortium.

Join us for a PrairieCat Member Update. Hear the latest from PrairieCat staff and your colleagues from across the consortium.

The Administrative Council is PrairieCat's board of directors and consists of 11 elected representatives from the Delegates Assembly. This governing body sets policy, receives and approves recommendations from the Ad Hoc and Standing Committees, and approves recommendations to go to the Delegates Assembly including new members, contracts, the budget and major purchases outside the budget.

Who should attend: Members of the Council and any other interested parties. This meeting is open to the public.

Meeting Documents: Visit the PrairieCat website to access meeting documents. 

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This Committee recommends policy and procedures for resource sharing between libraries, striving to ensure fair and equitable practices that follow agreed PrairieCat resource sharing philosophies.

Meeting Documents: Visit the PrairieCat website to access meeting documents. 

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This body approves the budget, contracts, new members and other major decisions for PrairieCat. Consists of a representative from each Fully Participating and Basic Online member as well as four Union Listing representatives acting as co-chairs of the Union Listing standing group. Each Fully Participating or Basic Online Member Library shall appoint its Chief Administrator or another staff member to act as the Fully Participating or Basic Online Member Library’s representative (“Delegate”) on the Delegates Assembly. The Delegate may also designate, in writing, an alternate to vote in their absence. No substitutes or proxies shall be allowed to vote in the place of a Delegate or their designated Alternate.

Who should attend: Participation in Delegates Assembly is required for Delegates or Alternates from each Fully Participating or Basic Online member of PrairieCat, and the four Union List reps. This meeting is open to the public.

Meeting Documents: Visit the PrairieCat website to access meeting documents. 

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