Description
Delete bibliographic, instance, and item data from OLE as a batch process, utilizing an imported file (e.g. a MARC file from a vendor, a text file of record IDs) to identify the records.
Files of records or record IDs often come from vendors but can also be created in the library. A vendor may decide to remove access to one or more titles that has been accessible through a subscribed collection, a library might decide to cancel a subscription to an aggregate of titles. Since the library’s access to such titles has been terminated, there is a need to remove their reference in the library database.
Vendors may supply a binary MARC file that includes records for the titles that are no longer accessible. Or a text file that simply includes record IDs may be used. Ideally, a library can use such files to search their local database for records that match those in the file and the records in the database can then be deleted.
