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 […]
Course Reserves / Reserves preparation for CUNY’s new LSP
The (CUNY Libraries’) Data Migration Task Force is now recommending that libraries work on cleaning up our existing Course Reserves / Reserves this summer. This should be done before we set up our Test LSP environment for our new LSP. Rather than bring over what we know already will be a problem, it is better […]
Aleph Item Process Status: New Book
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. Today, let’s please take a look at NB New Book. NB New […]
Sync your Collections with your Circulation Policy
We will need to think about how Collections relate to circulation policies at your library. Circulation under the Library Service Platform will be driven by Collection codes. So, the next phase will involve syncing Circulation (Aleph) Item Status for items within the same collection. This is less of a concern for items of different material […]
