[Evergreen-catalogers] Deleting Items from Copy Buckets

[Hardy, Elaine]

We have had run-ins with this button as well as the similar button in the
record bucket. It may be that any item in a status that would normally
require an override to delete might not delete in batch. It is true that
if a bib record still has items attached, it doesn't delete; but the
system doesn't inform you of that either.


Elaine
 
 
J. Elaine Hardy
PINES Bibliographic Projects and Metadata Manager
Georgia Public Library Service,
A Unit of the University System of Georgia
1800 Century Place, Suite 150
Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304
404.235-7128
404.235-7201, fax
 
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[mailto:evergreen-catalogers-bounces at list.evergreen-ils.org] On Behalf Of
sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2012 1:50 PM
To: Evergreen Community Catalogers
Subject: Re: [Evergreen-catalogers] Deleting Items from Copy Buckets

Hi Mary,
Thanks for the suggestion. I don't personally have access, but if it had
been a very large group of items, I probably would have filed a helpdesk
ticket to have this done. We're such a large consortium, that for just a
few items the IT staff doesn't really have time to handle this kind of
thing.


Sarah Childs
Senior Cataloger
Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
250 North Fifth Street
Zionsville, IN 46077
317-873-3149 x13330
sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us


> Hi Sarah,
>
> I haven't heard of any of our libraries running into that, so thanks
> for the heads-up, but I wanted to suggest an option for restoring
> items if it should happen again. I don't know if you have access to
> the database and SQL, but you could scan the item barcodes into a list
> in a text file or csv file, and give them to your sys admin to
> "undelete" them. If they are still in the bucket, perhaps you can
> export them from Evergreen as a csv file.
>
> Nothing deleted really leaves the data table, it just has a flag for
> "deleted" being true or false, governing whether a bib or item can be
> seen.
>
> To change the flag, the query would be something like
>
> UPDATE asset.copy
> set deleted = 'f'
> where barcode in (3400988765,
> 34000987655,
> [etc.])
>
> Your list of barcodes goes in the parentheses, separated by commas, so
> that the query changes only those items.
>
> This is much less work than re-adding your accidental deletions.
>
> Mary
>
> Mary Llewellyn
> Database Manager
> Bibliomation
> Middlebury, CT
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 19, 2012, at 6:21 PM, sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us wrote:
>
>> Has anyone else had a run in with the Delete All from Catalog button
>> in Copy Buckets?
>>
>> If you click "Delete All from Catalog" in Copy Buckets, all the items
>> get deleted immediately. Poof. They're gone. You don't get warning
>> "Are you sure?" pop up like you do in Item Status or Holdings
>> Maintenance.  You don't even get an "Items have been deleted" pop up
>> afterward, so you could conceivably delete 100s of items and not even
>> notice.
>>
>> In my case it was only 18 items, and I had them on a cart right next
>> to me, so it was a bit of a hassle to re-add all the items, but not a
>> nightmare. However, I could see it being a much bigger problem if it
>> happened with a lot of more items, and/or if you didn't get noticed
>> when it occurred.
>>
>> From my perspective, that button serves no purpose anyway, since I
>> always mass delete from Item Status where I can delete volumes as
>> well as copies, but if it is useful to others, I'd at least like a
>> chance to back out if I ever accidentally click it again.
>>
>> I hadn't thought about it in a few months since I deleted those
>> items, but last week I was training staff how to use copy buckets and
>> they were freaked out by the button. Then, thanks to email
>> notification, it showed up in my inbox when the importance got
>> changed. https://bugs.launchpad.net/evergreen/+bug/969312
>>
>> It brought it on my radar again and made me wonder if any one else
>> has encountered this or is concerned about it?
>>
>>
>>
>> Sarah Childs
>> Senior Cataloger
>> Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library
>> 250 North Fifth Street
>> Zionsville, IN 46077
>> 317-873-3149 x13330
>> sarahc at zionsville.lib.in.us
>>
>>
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