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Advance planning for printing
Advance planning for a technical solution is the type of issue that seems worth bringing to your attention. This one applies to a library’s future purchases of printers. It may be prudent to consider only buying printers with full network connection capabilities. This allows them to be email aware, meaning that they can receive and […]
Aleph Item Process Status: Bindery status
The Aleph Item Process Status (IPS) in Aleph is sometimes misunderstood, as it is sometimes (but not always) more than a display field. The functionality built into some of the IPS is complex, so it will probably be best to approach them separately. Let’s please take a look at the Bindery related statuses: BD At […]
Planning to remove Lost Items from the Aleph catalog?
If your plans include using any batch processes for removing lost items records, please consider first removing titles that are suppressed with an Item Process Status of “LO” or “LP.” We can use a batch process with titles. We can use a batch process for items if and only if we have first removed the […]
Print to Electronic record conversion for the new Library Service Platform
Moving away from Aleph to a Library Services Platform requires preparation BEFORE data migration. One important pre-migration goal is to separate print items and electronic items out at the title level. Aleph, like many legacy ILS systems, handles electronic and print records using the same data structures. We have bibliographic, holdings and print records. In […]
Sync your Collections with your Circulation Policy – La Segunda Parte
This is the second part of synchronizing your Collections with your Circulation Policy. This work comes after you have begun as described in my previous blog post: Sync your Collections with your Circulation Policy Let’s say that you are finding one collection where your library has 345 items with “Aleph Item Status 01”, and 2,357 […]
