Alephswe The Swedish Aleph User Group (Alephswe)
was formed in 1998. At present it has 15 members libraries.
Alephswe organizes two meetings/ year. The autumn meeting
of 2004 was held in October in Umeå, and in 2005 the spring meeting
was held in Stockholm, at the Library of the National Institute For Working
Life. There is a board with 4 members and several enhancement groups,
each of which focus on one module of ALEPH. Activities and development of Alephswe As the ALEPH system grows more and more stable and the local distributor, Fujitsu, has found the means to facilitate and standardize the upgradings, the focus has gradually changed towards keeping each other informed about successes, problems and local developments, maintaining the list of development requests and coordinating common interests in contacts with Fujitsu and LIBRIS, the National Union Catalogue of Swedish Libraries. The situation in 2005 During 2005 most of the Swedish ALEPH libraries have migrated
or are planning to migrate from version 14.2 to version 16.2. For each
new migration the organization and support from our agent Fujitsu grows
a bit smoother. The AUG-UKI document with "requirements for ALEPH
upgrade procedure", that we adopted to Swedish conditions and sent
to Fujitsu in 2003, has contributed considerably to give us better upgrading
procedures. The client interfaces were radically changed between version
14 and 16. Therefore a great deal of effort has been laid on educating
the staff in handling the old functions in new ways. After the initial difficulties during the implementation phase of ALEPH 500 in Sweden (1998-2000), the contacts with the distributor Fujitsu (earlier ICL) has improved substantially and at the moment the user satisfaction level in Sweden is relatively high. There is now a constructive relationship between Fujitsu and Alephswe. Fujitsu arranges courses for users in managing different parts of ALEPH and also joint seminars in Copenhagen for the Swedish, Danish and Norwegian users. Special developments are made by Fujitsu, often in cooperation with one or more of the ALEPH libraries. A substantial portion of the Alephswe meetings are devoted to presentations made by Fujitsu about current developments and new releases/versions of ALEPH. Contacts with the Swedish cooperative system LIBRIS Sweden has since 1974 a cooperative union catalogue, LIBRIS, to which the university libraries and also other libraries contribute. The LIBRIS system has during the years developed new functions, such as ILL. LIBRIS has, in cooperation with reference groups of staff from Swedish libraries, during the last year developed a national portal, built on the LIBRIS union catalogue and SFX/Metalib. There is also an ongoing investigation to explore the possibilities of developing LIBRIS into a local system to in the long run replace the present different local systems. As we are very content with the way the ALEPH system works, we are somewhat concerned that the stability and quality of such a new common national system will not match the ALEPH systems level. After an initiative from Alephswe LIBRIS has formed a contact group between LIBRIS and representatives from the different library systems in Sweden. The aim of this contact group is to coordinate the needs and views of the users, e g the different local library systems. The first and so far the only meeting was held in November 2004. Alephswe IGeLU engagement Göran Skogmar in memoriam Contacts The following libraries are members of Alephswe: The Government Offices Library Jönköping University Library Library of the Royal Academy of letters, History
and Antiquities Library of the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration
(FMV) Library of the Swedish Parliament Luleå University Library Mid Sweden University Library Nordic Africa Institute Library The Royal Library Swedish Agricultural University Libray Swedish Environmental Protection Agency The Swedish Film Institute Library The Swedish Institute of Children´s Books Umeå University Library University West
National Institute For Working Life is closed The Catalogue of Library of the National Institute
For Working Life is now avalible as a subset of union catalogue LIBRIS |
Senast uppdaterad: 2012-07-04 anders.blomgren@kb.se |