Deleting Bibliographic Records

Deleting Records via the Staff Catalogue
Deleting Records via a Record Bucket

Sitka’s Evergreen will automatically delete records when the last item attached to the record is deleted.

Records that are imported or created in Evergreen but never have a holding attached or a scoped 856 field added are automatically deleted when they’ve been in the catalogue for more than 3 months.

Records with holdings attached, physical or electronic, cannot be deleted.

Deleting Records via the Staff Catalogue

You can delete a MARC record directly from the MARC Edit tab in the bibliographic record.

  1. Search the catalogue for a record that you need to delete, as described in Chapter 14, Searching the Database for Cataloguing Purposes.
  2. Click on the MARC Edit tab.
  3. Click Delete Record.

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  4. A pop up will appear. Click Confirm.
  5. Record is now deleted and only retrievable by a TCN (title control number) or record ID search.

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Deleting Records via a Record Bucket

Records can be deleted in batch from a record bucket.

  1. Go to Cataloguing → Record Buckets.
  2. Select the bucket containing the records you would like to delete from the drop down menu.

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  3. Select the records you wish to delete and from the the Actions menu choose Delete Selected Records from Catalogue.

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  4. Click OK/Continue.
  5. The records are deleted. Records with holdings cannot be deleted and will return an error.

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