Managing Record Deletion

You can set Cataloging profiles to retain deleted records and then purge them from the database in a separate process. Bibliographic and item record deletion for ILL requests also honor these settings. The purge process automatically removes records marked for deletion based on criteria in a Purge record. See Purge cataloging records.

In addition, you can set Cataloging parameters to prevent or allow the deletion of bibliographic or item records with linked hold requests. These parameters are available at the System level only, and the default is No, which prevents deletion of bibs or items with linked hold requests. If the parameters are set to Yes, the records with linked hold requests can be deleted if the hold requests have a status of Active, Pending, or Inactive.

See also:

• Retain deleted records
• Allow or prevent deletion of bibs with linked hold requests
• Allow or prevent deletion of items with linked hold requests