Name of Institution
Servizio Bibliotecario Senese - Universita' di
Siena
Siena Bibliographic Service - University of Siena
Library Automation Contact Person:
Guido Badalamenti, system library manager
Universita' di Siena
SAB: Servizio Automazione Biblioteche
Via Fieravecchia 19, 53100 Siena (Italy)
tel. and fax: +39-577-298524
Description:
Description: Metropolitan Consortium of more
than 30 research, public, special and private
libraries.
Subject areas covered: Medicine, Law,
Economics and Banking, Physical and Natural
Science, Pharmacy, Arts and Humanities,
Mathematics, Social Works, Engineering, Theology.
Aleph Configuration:
- Version implemented: 3.2_6_4
- Function implemented: Opac, Cataloguing,
Serial, Circulation, Acquisition,
Maintenance, Iutil.
- Operating system: VMS, release 6.2
- Server type: Dec ALPHA Server 2100 with
256 MB of RAM and 5 disks of 2 GB each
one; (+ VAX 3100)
- Network configuration: DECNET, TCP/IP
- Type of workstations: Digital Terminal
VT320, VT420, VT510, PC, MAC.
Catalogue:
Configuration: 1 local library and 16
sublibraries.
Records:
- 408.796 monographs;
- 222.567 analytical records linked to the
monographs; 20.679 journals;
- 117 CD-ROM;
- 289 Dissertations;
- 188 Videos;
- 206 Audiotapes of books for blind people.
Circulation statistics (Jul.96-Jul.97):
- Users 26.700;
- Loans 62.644;
- Returns 61.076;
- Reservations 1123.
Major Developments since last ICAU-meeting:
Retroconversion: during last year we
continue with the retrospective conversion of our
card catalogues (by scanner, OCR/IR and
reformatting software "Malachia") and
we downloaded 8660 records.
WWW: We are now implementing our Web
server. Finally with the installation of the new
release of the software it is possible to show
our analytical records and their holdings.
Acquisition: During the last year, we
started to work with the acquisition module. The
project involved 17 libraries with different
legal status (public and university libraries)
sharing the same _local library". We defined
a special programme in order to download the
files with the inventory reports directly in the
administrative (homemade) software.
Acquisition proposals: We downloaded,
in a special local library, the book in print
database of Casalini bookseller. The content of
the DB is of 20.000 records and we implement it
-monthly- with new records via FTP. Librarians
are allowed to duplicate these records in the
main DB for the acquisition and cataloguing
procedure.
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