Remember to uncheck the trim list box before you import your list.
And as Sarah said, breaking the list into a few hundred makes it much more manageable. Once you delete the barcodes from the records, depending on your settings, the bib records will likely be deleted. In order to get them to display in the catalog, you will have to undelete them. It might be best to change your library setting not to delete records that have the last item/vol attached before you delete the items then change it back when you are finished. Elaine _____ J. Elaine Hardy PINES Bibliographic Projects & Metadata Manager Georgia Public Library Service 1800 Century Place, Ste 150 Atlanta, Ga. 30345-4304 404.235-7128 404.235-7201, fax [email protected] www.georgialibraries.org www.georgialibraries.org/pines From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Bandy Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 3:54 PM To: [email protected]; Evergreen Discussion Group Subject: Re: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Best method of removing items from bibs? Hi Sarah, folks, That's awesome...I was so focused on using the bucket approach, that I neglected to think of that part of the staff-client. Thank you so much! --Tony On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 3:33 PM, Sarah Childs <[email protected]> wrote: 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. --- Sarah Childs Senior Cataloger Hussey-Mayfield Memorial Public Library 250 North Fifth Street Zionsville, IN 46077 317-873-3149 x13330 <tel:317-873-3149%20x13330> [email protected] Message: 2 Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 14:52:46 -0400 From: Tony Bandy <[email protected]> Subject: [OPEN-ILS-GENERAL] Best method of removing items from bibs? To: Evergreen Discussion Group <[email protected]> Message-ID: <CAEKwE4V7Wn1ddDkW1F87hCp6G+425sxpWEG7r2aW=knrvhe...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" 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 -- Tony Bandy [email protected] OHIONET 1500 West Lane Ave. Columbus, OH 43221-3975 614-486-2966 x19 <tel:614-486-2966%20x19> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://libmail.georgialibraries.org/pipermail/open-ils-general/attachment s/20130326/e77dc3f6/attachment-0001.htm> -- Tony Bandy [email protected] OHIONET 1500 West Lane Ave. Columbus, OH 43221-3975 614-486-2966 x19
