[Koha] Bulk search/delete by ISBNs?

[Chris Cormack]

Hi Fred

You might be able to write a report to get all biblio with no items attached, of a certain type and then use that list of biblionumbers in the bulk biblio delete.

Hope this helps 
Chris 

On 30 August 2019 1:51:31 AM NZST, "King, Fred" <Fred.King at Medstar.net> wrote:
>Esteemed Colleagues,
>
>My library has a collection of about 5000 online books that are in Koha
>with bib records and no items. The publisher periodically archives
>titles so they're no longer available, and I have a list of them that
>I'd like to remove from Koha. The problem is that my list consists of
>ISBNs and that there are over 450 of them. I could search and delete
>one-by-one, but that's an awful lot of searching and deleting. Is there
>an easier way?
>
>We're on Koha 17.05* and Ubuntu 16.04.
>
>*I know, I know, but I'm hoping to get a new server before I upgrade.
>
>Fred King, AHIP
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