Is there a way to delete items from a MARC biblio record besides going into MySQL and doing it by hand?
that's a good question : should we enable biblio/items deletion. I think that no : if an item has to be "deleted", just mark it as "unborrowable", but remember we had it some times ago.
I'm very confused now. Is the 'deletedbiblioitems' table used? And what about the 'withdrawn' status in the 'items' table? How is that used? My concern about marking items as 'deleted' and 'unborrowable' is that it would fill up the database with entries that would need to be ignored in most searches.
If yes : I think it's a very uncommon operation that should be hidden in the "parameter" part of Koha. If we delete a biblio/item, should we delete all borrowing informations too?
It's very common for us to delete items. We weed our collections regularly. Items with shorter lifespans like paperback romances get deleted fairly frequently. Some mechanism needs to be available to librarians for getting them out of the publicly-searched pool of items. -- Owen