[Heb-NACO] ease of cataloging Hebrew records into ALEPH

[Gabriel Mordoch]

At the University of Michigan Library we usually catalog in OCLC Connexion
and then export it to our integrated library system (Alma).

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-Gabriel
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2021 at 12:10 AM Miriam Gloger via Heb-naco <
heb-naco at lists.osu.edu> wrote:

> In New York Public and Brooklyn Public libraries we use III Sierra. It
> isn't that hard to edit the 880 fields, but diacritics need to be entered
> in unicode (or cut and pasted in)
> It would probably be easier to catalog records in MARC Edit, or even take
> an Excell spreadsheet and create records from that in MARC Edit,  than to
> enter them directly.
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 7:05 PM Rita Lifton via Heb-naco <
> heb-naco at lists.osu.edu> wrote:
>
>> Hi, Heidi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope all is well. At JTS Library, I catalog in OCLC and export to Aleph.
>>
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>> Best,
>>
>> Rita
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>>
>>
>> Rita Lifton
>>
>> Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary
>>
>> New York, NY
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>> *From:* Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces+rilifton=jtsa.edu at lists.osu.edu> *On
>> Behalf Of *Cliff Miller via Heb-naco
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:44 AM
>> *To:* Frau-Cortes, Neil <NFRAUCORTES at broward.org>; Hebrew Name Authority
>> Funnel <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>
>> *Cc:* abuelo39 at gmail.com
>> *Subject:* Re: [Heb-NACO] ease of cataloging Hebrew records into ALEPH
>>
>>
>>
>> At the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary, I have been working in
>> Aleph for decades.
>>
>> Whenever possible, I work in OCLC and then load the completed record into
>> Aleph.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope you are all staying safe from Covid, cyclone, flooding, earthquake,
>> hurricane, tornado, wildfire, etc.
>>
>> Be well,
>>
>> Clifford Miller
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces at lists.osu.edu> *On Behalf Of *Frau-Cortes,
>> Neil via Heb-naco
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:17 AM
>> *To:* 'Heidi G Lerner' <lerner at stanford.edu>; 'Hebrew Name Authority
>> Funnel' <heb-naco at lists.osu.edu>
>> *Subject:* Re: [Heb-NACO] ease of cataloging Hebrew records into ALEPH
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi Heidi,
>>
>>
>>
>> Currently I work on OCLC and export to Sirsi, but when I was at UMD we
>> had Aleph. I think Aleph manages Hebrew better than Sirsi but I would never
>> catalog Hebrew records into it. It feels clunky and hard to read, starting
>> by the fact that the parallel fields do not appear in parallel but divided
>> by alphabet. To make things more complicated, Aleph feels like a dark box:
>> it is easy to send things to it from Connexion, but exporting from Aleph,
>> like producing reports, is a nightmare.
>>
>>
>>
>> Hope you are doing well.
>>
>>
>>
>> Best,
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Neil
>>
>>
>>
>> *From:* Heb-naco <heb-naco-bounces+nfraucortes=broward.org at lists.osu.edu>
>> *On Behalf Of *Heidi G Lerner via Heb-naco
>> *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2021 6:53 PM
>> *To:* heb-naco at lists.osu.edu
>> *Subject:* [Heb-NACO] ease of cataloging Hebrew records into ALEPH
>>
>>
>>
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>> Hi there,
>>
>>
>>
>> The only systems that I have cataloged directly into are RLIN and OClC,
>> then exporting records into our local system SIRSI. SIRSI was woefully
>> inadequate for editing or cataloging Hebrew records directly into it.
>>
>>
>>
>> For those of you who are currently using ALEPH as your local system,
>> could you please let me know if you do the majority of our cataloging
>> directly int ALEPH or into OCLC (and then export).
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Heidi
>>
>>
>>
>> Heidi G. Lerner
>>
>> Metadata Librarian for Hebraica and Judaica Emerita, Stanford University
>> Libraries
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