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 And what about the 'withdrawn' status in the 'items' table?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
Hi Guys On Tue, Jun 03, 2003 at 10:03:43AM -0400, Owen Leonard said:
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 And what about the 'withdrawn' status in the 'items' table?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?
Ok, answering from 1.2.x :-) When you delete and item/biblioitem/biblio in 1.2.3 it is shifted to the deleteditem, deletedbiblio etc. This is so that they dont clutter up searching etc. If you mark an item cancelled/withdraw the withdrawn status is invoke. Koha knows not to show these items to patrons. Librarians can see them still tho. What HLT is cancel books, then after some period of time, delete them. They also delete items that have been lost for a certain amount of time, and have been replaced.
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.
Yep, thats what the deleted tables are there to prevent. Im fairly sure the same system will be working in 1.9.3 but i dont know what it would do with the MARC data.
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.
I think HLT do a yearly stocktake and delete items then. So I think its not a truly uncommon instance in a public library. Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 027 4500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz
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