2019-01-21 / Leave a comment
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 […]
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2018-11-27 / 2 Comments on 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 […]
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2016-01-28 / Leave a comment
In an earlier blog post, we discussed the structure of OneSearch’s metadata, aka PNX. (See: Behind OneSearch: Part 1 – Internal Records (PNX).) If you’ve wondered exactly which MARC fields are being used to create each of those PNX fields, we’ve got good news for you! We extracted the data and are making it available for your review. […]
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2016-01-26 / 1 Comment on OneSearch, E-Resources, and Dedup
Over the winter break, OLS applied a major improvement to OneSearch results: we “de-deduped” many e-resource records! The Problem As OneSearch was initially configured, it applied its dedup process to all records equally, whether they were print or electronic. What is dedup? The dedup process allows OneSearch to present a single result when the identical resource is held by multiple […]
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2015-11-11 / Leave a comment
Last week’s post about link checking describes one of the ways that OLS is working on improving access to e-resources via OneSearch. Another area of work regards e-resource records batchloaded to Aleph which are also available via the Primo Central Index (PCI). Because of the large number of duplicate records coming from Aleph, there are often problems determining availability correctly for […]
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