The official SDI service, p_sdi_01, produces rather basic e-mail output which does not use the newer XSL templates. It is hard to control the formatting of the messages. This service allows the e-mail output to be controlled fully by the library, including the provision of links to the catalogue, lists of items, etc. The RSS feeds are also enhanced to comply with standards more fully.

While Javascript XSS queries are forbidden by default, we use client-side scripting in two ways: piping requests through a cgi proxy script, and using the Yahoo YQL API (returns the SFX response as JSONP-X, which overrides the browser XSS restrictions). This page describes the latter option (YQL).

A service for Aleph version 20 onwards. It calculates the new z30-process-status-date field for all items and deletes uninteresting item history records which have been created as a result of the book circulating. Very useful if you have been using the ALL-FIELDS option in tab_item_history.eng and are switching to ALL-NON-CIRC. Using this service reduced our item history from about 7,000,000 rows to 2,000,000.

Patron photographs in Aleph have to reside in the ADMLIB/bor_pics directory and are named after the Aleph internal patron ID. Often there is a need to import photographs from another system. This script searches for photographs whose names are based on alternative IDs held on the Aleph patron records, and creates symbolic links in bor_pics to make them available in Aleph.

Displays SFX link/button on OPAC's full record screen according user's IP address (IP validation made on server side via PERL) and only for records with ISSN.
It can be used on all Aleph500 versions.

This custom service generates pages displaying new books (and other materials) and Atom feeds (a variety of RSS). The configuration is very versatile, allowing many different criteria from the item, order, budget and MARC records to be considered.

This extension to the Aleph OPAC and to the SFX Menu provides a graphical representation of our often complex serials holdings. It enables the user to see very quickly which years of a journal are available at each library and which are available on-line. Information from the SFX API is combined with the Aleph holdings in a single graphical summary. The bar charts shown for electronic holdings are clickable, taking the user through to the correct year (where supported in the linking syntax).

This is a PHP script used to generate RSS feeds from the Aleph catalog. We use it to get new titles from our new title logical base.

This extension to the Aleph OPAC provides links from the full record display to other related material on the catalogue. Links to other editions of the work are shown, as well as Amazon-style "people who borrowed this also borrowed..." type links based on the usage of the collections. Subject headings and classification numbers attached to the MARC records are also exploited to provide links to books on closely related subjects.

This script aims to help opening files in columnar report format, i.e. those generated from aleph's p-ret-01 or p-ret-03, etc.
in spreadsheet applications, like excel or openoffice, by converting the reports into csv (Comma Separated Values) format.
The script works with standard python 2.x installation and doesn't require special libraries.