Defining search and print formats in ALEPH based on order record fields

Abstract

Though the integrated library system ALEPH has been availabie for a while, annual library statistical reports has to be produced mainly manually, until it was found that using subprograms of ALEPH, retrieval aspects of order records can be determined according to the needs, and lists or reports can be printed using proper data. Utilizing the feature of the software to sum numerical data fields, accession registries and annual reports can be produced automatically. The use of acquisition subprograms is very substantíal for the processing of ordering data, because with UTILs the data to be displayed can be defined by the user. Applying the method developed in the Central Library of the Budapest Technical University, the opinion of many librarians that prevailed so far about a weak point of ALEPH that it is incapable to produce records and registries according to Hungarian library practice, can be changed.