Restore old cataloging records/items

• Article Type: General
• Product: Aleph
• Product Version: 18.01

Description:
This morning I did a batch load of 63 MARC ebook records. I ran manage-18 twice - once to use the OCLC fix and once to use a local fix. During the 2nd running of manage-18, I said to update current records, which was likely where I made the wrong move.
It turns out that in many instances of the 63 records, they were loaded twice. But one appears to be a standard ebook record and the other overwrote an existing, unrelated physical item. So, one item will not have a call number (since our ebook items don't have call numbers) and the other will have the call number of an item on the shelf. So, the record for the physical book item is now incorrect.
Is there a way to restore those records to before I made the import mistake?

Resolution:
[Note: If you have changed an item using the GUI Circ - Items (in the gray bar at the top) - "Change Item Information" function, then you could restore the old version of the record using the complementary "Restore Item Information" function. That, of course, is not the case here.]

When a z30 item is updated, a z30h history record can be written (depending on the settings in the ./xxx50/tab/tab_item_history.eng file). History records were almost certainly written for these updates.
To restore the z30h record, you would bring up the item in Cataloging and click on "All Items History" (under "Items List" in the tree on the left). Then highlight a particular history record and click on "View" (on the right). Once you've located the record you want you would click on "Restore" (also on the right).

This will definitely work for items. There is no similar function for bib records, though the z00t (Tracking record) functionality described in KB 16384-42497, might be of some use.

• Article last edited: 10/8/2013