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 < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, Heidi, > > > > Hope all is well. At JTS Library, I catalog in OCLC and export to Aleph. > > > > Best, > > Rita > > > > Rita Lifton > > Library of The Jewish Theological Seminary > > New York, NY > > > > *From:* Heb-naco <[email protected]> *On > Behalf Of *Cliff Miller via Heb-naco > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:44 AM > *To:* Frau-Cortes, Neil <[email protected]>; Hebrew Name Authority > Funnel <[email protected]> > *Cc:* [email protected] > *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 <[email protected]> *On Behalf Of *Frau-Cortes, > Neil via Heb-naco > *Sent:* Tuesday, October 26, 2021 8:17 AM > *To:* 'Heidi G Lerner' <[email protected]>; 'Hebrew Name Authority > Funnel' <[email protected]> > *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 <[email protected]> *On > Behalf Of *Heidi G Lerner via Heb-naco > *Sent:* Monday, October 25, 2021 6:53 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* [Heb-NACO] ease of cataloging Hebrew records into ALEPH > > > > *External Email Warning*: This email originated from outside the Broward > County email system. Do not reply, click links, or open attachments > unless you recognize the sender’s *email address* (not just the name) as > legitimate and know the content is safe. Report any suspicious emails to > [email protected]. > > > > 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 > > > > > ------------------------------ > > > Under Florida law, most e-mail messages to or from Broward County > employees or officials are public records, available to any person upon > request, absent an exemption. Therefore, any e-mail message to or from the > County, inclusive of e-mail addresses contained therein, may be subject to > public disclosure. > _______________________________________________ > Heb-naco mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/heb-naco > -- *Miriam Gloger* Senior Librarian Cataloging Metadata Team BookOps New York Public Library & Brooklyn Public Library 31-11 Thomson Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101 (917) 229-9575
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