Re: [Koha-devel] Biblio but not items

[paul POULAIN]

Rachel Hamilton-Williams a écrit:

> Hi
>
>  
>
> > Sample data contains many (searchable) bibliorecords without items
> > associated with them. I suspect that this is also true for real
> > libraries using Koha. It would be nice to have admin script
> > which removes these "floaters" (but not from acquisition!).
> >    
>
> In practice it is difficult for Koha to tell between biblios that are in there 
> because a book is on order (and therefor is reservable and shows up in the 
> catalogue), and biblios that just don't have items on them because someone 
> didn't delete them properly.
>
> I think that you'd need a report that got all the biblios without items in a 
> list, and then you went throug and deleted the ones you didn't need.  It would 
> be pretty gutting to have all your partly aquired items deleted again.
>
> OR it could be something that comes with simple acquisitions - where you're 
> only putting in items once you have them in your hand.
>
> cheers
> R
>  
Maybe the best solution would be to have an option "only avaible 
biblios" in the search pat of koha : i don't see any major problem to 
have "inactive" biblios in the db : maybe in the future we could have it 
again.
But seeing the biblio in reserve... screen is poor.

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Paul POULAIN
Consultant indépendant en logiciels libres
responsable francophone de koha (SIGB libre http://fr.koha.org)