1. ALEPH Software Development Plans November 2002 James Steenbergen Director of Support Services james@exlibris-usa.com ALEPH Software Development Plans November 2002 James Steenbergen Director of Support Services james@exlibris-usa.com

2. ALEPH Software Development 2 points I would like you to take away from this discussion: While Aleph500 is an extremely sophisticated product and environment, functionality is continuing to increase with each release Ex Libris staff worldwide have been focusing on process improvement as well as functional changes to make YOUR lives and OUR lives easier

3. ALEPH Production Schedule Jan-02Jul-02Jan-03Jul-03Jul-04Jan-04Jul-05Jan-05 14.2 - Continued new installations 15.2 - In production for new customers only 15.2 - Upgrade beta test for US, UK, France only 15.2 - Upgrade for 14.2 customers 16 - In production for new customers 16 - Upgrade beta test (except HVD) 16 - Upgrade for 14, 15 sites 17 - for New Customers 17 - upgrade beta (?) 17 - upgrade (?) 18 - new sites

4. ALEPH Version 15 In production, Summer 2002. Primary functional changes (detailed, 34 pages long) include: Printing – XML/XSL Depository enhancements Web OPAC – Frameless only; search strings 2000 characters; permanent e-Shelf; normalization of headings improved. Batch services through Windows modules, not web. New Circulation client available (circ2).

5. ALEPH Version 15 Circulation – in-house use statistics; transfer transactions to Accounts Receivable / Bursar. Acquisitions – budget hierarchies; multi-order process; multi-level vendor records; multiple order units in department; object codes in budgets and invoices. Cataloging – browse the web from 856 tag in cataloging; open sets of records. Serials – move prediction patterns to holdings record allows multiple predictions per title. Batch processes – batch delete of records; new export routines for union catalogs and utilities.

6. ALEPH Version 16 In production Summer 2003. Major development highlights include: New GUI clients for all modules Task Manager (printing) removed; functionality available in all modules. Administration module removed; functionality distributed among other modules. Search module removed; functionality available in all other modules.

7. ALEPH Version 16 Index building includes 3 major enhancements: Index optimization Building indexes in parallel to running system Automated monitoring, suspension, and recovery Media Booking added Unmediated ISO Compliant ILL module added (16/15.2S) Normalized tables for statistics (SQL queries) New EDI architecture using XML to EDI converters

8. ALEPH Version 16 Enhancements to Digital Repository within Aleph Union Catalog and Union View enhancements X-Server enhancements including telnet style text interface to OPAC using X-Server as backend Multiple Time Zones on one server (16/15.2S) Non IP-based identification of terminals (16/15.2S) FERPA - Identification and Address update restrictions (16/15.2S) ICAU and NAAUG enhancements from 2001