Up to 15 August Messages
August 15 -- LTI Update
Of the 119,576 LTI records, 89,899 LTI records loaded. Bill is hoping that the remaining 30K will be loaded by Wednesday night.
August 13 -- Manually Claiming an Order
A quick reminder: If you want to manually claim an order (via the Claims node in the Orders tab), please use Letter Format '01 - Claim (no vendor notes)'. This is the only letter that has been formatted so far. Please do not use the other choices in the drop-down list. We hope to have the other letters formatted soon. We'll keep you posted!
**Please note: This instruction is for claiming ORDERS only. It does NOT refer to claiming serial issues in the Serials tab.
August 7--Loading of LTI records
Bill Jones has loaded approximately 35,000 of the 115,000 LTI records; he expects that the remaining 80,000 LTI's will be loaded by Friday August 15.
August 6 -- Orders for Non-Book Materials
Please be advised that ALL-CAPS Bibliographic records created in association with monographic or standing orders for non-book materials (e.g., CD's, DVD's, etc.) generated since July 14 in ALEPH will have incorrect Leader and 008 values. The system is providing default values for these bytes as if they are print materials. Please be sure to correct the values when cataloging these materials. This may require the use of the "Change Record's Format" command in the Edit menu. We are currently working with ExLibris to resolve the problem.
August 4 -- Community Macros (Deadline for Submissions)
We've received many terrific suggestions for text-string macros (see Update of July 29). Keep them coming. But please try to get them to Matthew (matthew.wise@nyu.edu) by Friday, August 8. The Cataloging Working Group will be discussing the suggestions soon thereafter.
July 31 -- Arriving Cat Sep and Analyzed Standing Orders
New documentation is available for Acquisitions. "Arriving Cat Sep and Analyzed Standing Orders" is now available on the TSD ALEPH Implementation wiki page: http://wiki.library.nyu.edu/x/FgDw . Scroll down to "Documentation", then "Arriving and Invoicing" section). If you receive standing orders and would like to schedule a training session, please let Meg know meg.manahan@nyu.edu .
July 31 -- Binding Migrated Serial Items
Procedures for processing serial volumes sent to the bindery during the freeze period has been posted on the Wiki. Serials Post Migration: Processing Bindery Returns for Migrated Items is available at: http://wiki.library.nyu.edu/display/TSD/ALEPH+Implementation
July 30 -- Loading of LTI Records
-- Bill Jones has started loading the 115,000 records in small batches
-- So far he has loaded about 10,000 records
-- Right now loading is slow because he is trouble-shooting some problems; but he hopes to pick up the pace. This week Bill is at the ExLibris ELUNA conference, but is still trying to load records remotely
-- The 115,000 records with the LTI code are all records created (either as acquisitions or cataloging records) between February 26 and May 9
-- Records with the OWN=LTI field cannot be edited, so we are all anxious to have the remaining records loaded. We will send out updates on the loading