Items attach to bibliographic records and not to MARC bibliographic frameworks.
But bibliographic records are all recorded with a frameworkcode, and the frameworks system checks to see if any existing bibliographic records use a particular framework before it is deleted. This is the error message she's reporting, and it can be found in the frameworks management template, admin/biblio_framework.tmpl: <!-- TMPL_IF NAME="total" --> <p><strong>This framework is used <!-- TMPL_VAR NAME="total" --> times</strong>.</p> <!-- /TMPL_IF --> Nicole, try querying the biblio table for the frameworkcode of the framework you're trying to delete. That at least will determine whether the framework check is accurate or not. -- Owen -- Web Developer Athens County Public Libraries http://www.myacpl.org