Hi Paul, We noticed that the librarian can actaully delete an item (by mistake or while correcting some biblios). Although KOHA keeps records of deleted items its too much work trying to retrive it. So we think KOHA should prevent deletion of such items. We have added the following script to additem.pl } elsif ($op eq "delitem") { #----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------- # retrieve item if exist => then, it's a modif + my $sth=$dbh->prepare("select * from issues i where i.returndate is null and i.itemnumber=?"); + $sth->execute($itemnum); + my $onloan=$sth->fetchrow; + push @errors,"book_on_loan" if ($onloan); ##error book_on_loan added to template as well + if ($onloan){ + $nextop = "additem"; + }else{ &NEWdelitem($dbh,$bibid,$itemnum); $nextop="additem"; + } We also believe a similar code should be inserted to addbiblio.pl as well If you think the sameway can you please commit these, thanks Tumer