Name of Institution
Universita’ degli studi di Udine-Sistema
Bibliotecario d’Ateneo
University of Udine-Library System
Library Contact Person:
Dr. Liliana Bernardis, Librarian responsible
for the management of the ALEPH system
CEDA-Via Palladio 8 33100 UDINE (Italia)
tel. +39 432 556241
fax +39 432 556309
mailto: Liliana.Bernardis@amm.uniud.it
Automation Contact Person:
Mr. Antonio Cunei, System manager fort the
University Library System
CEDA-Via Palladio 8 33100 UDINE (Italia)
tel. +39 432 556236
fax +39 432 556309
mailto: Antonio.Cunei@amm.uniud.it
Aleph Configuration:
- ALEPH configuration: Version: 3.2_6
(patch 6)
- License: 40 full users, 25 search only
users; 150.000 records
- Functions implemented & used: Search,
Acquisitions, Cataloging, Holding
management, Maintenance, Serials,
Circulation, IUTIL, WWW
- Operating system: Solaris 2.5
- Server: SUN SPARCserver 1000E (a 85 MHz
dual processor
- 192 MB RAM, 9 GB HD)
- Network configuration: It includes
Ethernet, LocalTalk and
- TokenRing technologies with TCP/IP, LAT,
AppleTalk,
- IPX/SPX, NetBEUI, SNA protocols
- Workstations: Digital terminals VT 320
and 420, Macintosh,
- Pcs, SUN IPX
- Catalogue: 1 local library and 45
sub-libraries; 124.000 records (117.500
monographs and 6.500 periodicals)
Major Developments since last ICAU-meeting:
The WWW server has had our best attention.
since we purchased it. Particularly we have
modified the graphic planning (the screens
lay-out, the buttons), we have changed the
arrangement of some functions (for example the
help screens have been organized in a different
way than the default screens) and we have created
a CGI (Common Gataway Interface) to make easier
the use of external links. Besides, in order to
obtain a consistent English version, we have used
a pre-processor program producing the
international pages in an automatic way.
At the moment, in our Library System, for the
search in OPAC, the readers can use either
Macintosh with Netscape or terminals. So the
remote users have two access:
http://www.bib.uniud.it and
telnet://polaris.bib.uniud.it
An other important development, after
switching to the UNIX version and since the last
ICAU meeting has been the definition of an
Italian network of ALEPH databases using UNIX :
actually we access Genoa and IULM (Milan).
Major Developments planned:
While I am writing this report we are waiting
the 3M hardware (with self-check client) and
ALEPH SC server to set up an Automatic
Circulation System. The 3M station will be
located in one of the our University Libraries
where the night opening is needed. Barcodes and
magnetic strips in the items have been already
included and the borrowers use a reader card with
pre-printed barcodes.
An other project which we are working on,
concerns the conversion of databases from UNIMARC
format (like BNI, Italian National Bibliography)
to ALEPH format in order to support the card
catalogues conversion. New locals will be created
in ALEPH, so that the librarians can access the
bibliographic database and duplicate records from
it.
Open Problems:
In spite of the attempts to submit some
requests for improvement of a few Acquisition and
Print IUTILS to the REQ database, the following
problems are for us unsolved:
- Patrimonial check of the items (the
inventory report is so inflexible and
inadequate that we have to complete it
with other procedures)
- Most acquisitions batch utilities
don’t allow to retrieve the
sub-libraries records and this is a
problem for a Library System consisting
of many sub-libraries having different
policies and different budgets for the
acquisition.
Are we allowed, with ALEPH 500, to use freely
financial and administrative records? We hope the
answer can be satisfactory.
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