[Koha-devel] Hide records on Leader 05 = d in OPAC

[David Cook]

Hi Colin:

That's interesting. I suppose it does depend on the relationship that one has with the upstream provider. 

In the case of OAI-PMH, I think it would make sense for that status to be updated downstream.

However, in the case of Z39.50, I could see that being very bad. While that library may have "deleted" that record, it is still of use to your library. Of course, in that case, maybe we should be mitigating that in C4::Biblio::AddBiblio.

David Cook
Systems Librarian
Prosentient Systems
72/330 Wattle St, Ultimo, NSW 2007


> -----Original Message-----
> From: koha-devel-bounces at lists.koha-community.org [mailto:koha-devel-
> bounces at lists.koha-community.org] On Behalf Of Colin Campbell
> Sent: Thursday, 14 January 2016 12:05 AM
> To: koha-devel at lists.koha-community.org
> Subject: Re: [Koha-devel] Hide records on Leader 05 = d in OPAC
> 
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 08:48:21AM -0500, Galen Charlton wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 8:44 PM, David Cook <dcook at prosentient.com.au>
> wrote:
> > > We can’t necessarily rely on all Koha instances running this
> > > cronjob, nor can we rely on the frequency. Shouldn’t we be hiding
> > > these records from the OPAC as soon as they’re marked as “deleted”?
> > >
> > > I’ve opened a bug for this purpose:
> > > http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=15537
> >
> > I am in mild disfavor of this proposal, particularly as implemented in
> > current patch. Using a cronjob to delete records where Leader/05 is
> > set to 'd' is useful when the library has arranged their workflow such
> > that they *know* that Leader/05 = 'd' is being used consistently to
> > signify that a record is no longer wanted. However, for a library that
> > has not hitherto cared about the values in that position,
> > unconditionally suppressing the display of such records could come as
> > an unwelcome surprise.
> >
> I'd echo Galen's caution, especially if records are being imported, I've seen
> cases where trying to do this has revealed that records in use locally have
> inherited a deleted status from an upstream provider and does not reflect
> local status.
> 
> Colin
> 
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