[Evergreen-catalogers] Record merge history

[Rogan Hamby]

Hi Beth,

The merging is an Evergreen function and updates the place where that merge
date is stored.  There is no native Evergreen concept of unmerging.  You
would have to ask for the fields to be manually updated.



On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 8:36 AM Willis, Beth <willis at noblenet.org> wrote:

> We recently had an instance where several bib records were each merged
> incorrectly.   I undeleted each of the records that should not have been
> merged and transferred their holdings back accordingly.
>
> These reinstated records each display a yellow banner showing the merge
> history, like this:
>
> [image: image.png]
>
> This feature is very useful for merged records.  But, if a record that has
> been merged is later undeleted/reinstated, shouldn't the database be
> updated and this display disappear?
>
> Have others encountered this situation?  Is there a reason to
> retain/display this data?
>
> Thanks.
> Beth
> --
> Beth Willis
> Digital & Catalog Librarian
> NOBLE, Inc.
> 42 Cherry Hill Drive
> Danvers, MA 01923
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