[OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Best method of removing items from bibs?

[Sarah Childs]

Hi, Tony.
 From the staff client side you can import barcodes into the item status 
screen to delete them using the Upload from File button.  If all your 
report has is the barcodes you can save the excel file and import it 
straight into Item Status. (If the report has other fields, strip them 
from the file) However, I'd recommend breaking them into smaller chunks 
(100-200 or so) at a time. I just copy and paste groups from my report 
into a notepad file. Then you click the Upload from File, select your 
file and the items load. Highlight them and delete the whole group. It's 
a pretty quick and easy process. But I bet there would be a better way 
from the back end if it's a truly massive group. Somebody else will have 
to direct you there.

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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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> From: Tony Bandy <tonyb at ohionet.org>
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> Hi all,
> Was wondering if I could post this out to the group for ideas?
> Working with a massive list of electronic resource bib records that 
> are
> needing some mistakenly added item records removed from them.   I've 
> been
> able to create a list of item barcodes in the reports module.  Is 
> there a
> way I can mass add these items via a copy bucket so that I can delete 
> them
> all at once from my list of bib records?
> Or....is there a faster (better, cheaper, etc.) method of mass 
> deleting
> item records from the bibliographic records that I'm not aware of?  
> This
> involves electronic resource records, which don't need any attached 
> item
> records.  PSQL operation maybe that you have used before?
> Thanks for any links, thoughts, your experience on this as you have a
> minute or two....
> Tony
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