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Aleph Training and other Useful Things

Some of the links below will lead you to password-protected areas of either our own staff Web or outside servers. If you don't know the password, ask anyone on the Barton Advisory Group.

Reports

• Where to find the reports written in Brio Query (Word document)

Data Maps

• Serials Data (copyset info, checkin boxes)
• Item Records (where checkin boxes live in Aleph)
  • Item Process Status
  • Item Status
• Order Records
• Vendor Records
• Invoice Records
• Fund (Budget) Records

Functional Training and Local Procedures / Documentation

• Acquisitions (MonoAcq, Charlene)
  • Selectors' Training (Charlene and Macrina Rizzo)
• Cataloging Oasis (Beth)
  • Thesis Abbreviations
• Circulation (Michael)
• Holdings and Items (Beth and Kim, scroll to Holdings in Alpha list)
  • Item Sorting
• Indexing
  • Indexing Table (Beth, master list of which MARC fields and subfields are included in each of Third Barton's indexes)
  • Indexing Task Force Final Report (To be implemented Summer 2007)
  • Indexing Presentation (PowerPoint file; Right click on Link, and choose Save Link As...; then, view the file in PowerPoint) (Beth; explains different kinds of indexes and how they are used)
• OPAC
  • GUI / Staff OPAC (Reference Committee, for staff)
  • Web OPAC (Instruction Committee, for users)
  • Direct web links to Barton records
• Serials Acquisitions and Checkin (Kim)
• Serials Cataloging (Jennifer Edwards)

Customizing Your Aleph Clients

• Acquisitions
• Cataloging
• Circulation
• General
  • Font Sizes and Printing: Aleph Printing -- Font Too Large or Small
  • Toolbar: How to Make the Aleph Toolbar Disappear and Bring it Back Again
• Items
  • Changing size/location of the Items window
• Serials
  • Changing size/location of windows in the Serials module
• OPAC (GUI)
• OPAC (Web)
  • Web Barton and Unicode: why do I get the funny boxes?

Known Problems

• Cataloging (including diacritics and indexing issues) (Beth)
• GUI display updates still to do (Beth)
• OPAC To Do [Excel] (Darcy) see also older: OPAC: Quirks, Known Problems and Loose Ends
• PST Lines, or, Why am I seeing multiple holdings / availability lines in the GUI and Web OPAC displays? (Christine, Stephanie, and Kim)
• Responding to 3rd Barton Web OPAC Feedback: Questions & Answers (Erja)
• Serials Acquisitions (Kim)

Ex Libris, MIT Libraries' Systems Department and other System-y Stuff

• Ex Libris Documentation Portal at Ex Libris (login required)
• Ex Libris Support site (login required)
• Ex Libris Support - old PRB database (login required)
• ELUNA: Ex Libris Users of North America
• NAAUG: North American Aleph Users Group - Legacy site
• MIT Libraries' Systems Department Support
  • Aleph Account Request Form
  • Emergency Procedures - If Barton has crashed, follow these instructions. For slow system response or connection problems, try your LTE first.