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

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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

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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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