After a successful shelving location consolidation project a few years ago, 
we've found ourselves in a scenario where 85% of our shelving location are 
flagged as deleted, but they still show up in the Shelving Locations Editor 
interface. We'd like to properly purge these shelving locations from the 
database, but before doing so we'll need to update a bunch of legacy data like 
deleted items, old circulations, acquisition line items etc. Based on our 
consolidation project we have a map of old shelving location to new shelving 
location, and we can find which tables reference asset.copy_location so that we 
know what data to update to the new identifiers, but we're also aware of other 
places where shelving locations can show up like item templates and reports.

Have any of you taken on a project to actually purge shelving location entries 
from the asset.copy_location table? If so, do you have any words of advice for 
things to look out for or address in the process other than strictly updating 
an ID from one value to another in a database table?

Benjamin Murphy
NC Cardinal Program Manager
State Library of North Carolina
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