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I have a background job that wakes up every night and screen scrapes my reading history and lists into a local database, and updates cached availability information -- so I don't have to worry about the problem that Don mentions. However, this is not a solution that scales to Minuteman's 600K+ subscribers. Graeme Williams Waltham, MA On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:35 AM, Harper, Cynthia <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Perhaps if you exported data from lists that re likely to have items/bibs > deleted after you have collected them, you could keep an archive of data. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of > don warner saklad > Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 10:23 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] What can be done to stop deleting of records > belonging to users of our Minuteman Library Network in Massachusetts? > > a) Forensics studies deal with how to retrieve "deleted" "unarchived" > data. So called "deleted" data is actually available. > > b) Setup the system not to delete records belonging to users. Let users > keep their information saved for followup. Or at the very least notify > users beforehand. > > Example. Title wrongfully deleted. Title replaced by 8 places Record > number, lower case letter with 7 numbers. > > | >"You are logged in > https://library.minlib.net/patroninfo~S1/1196412/mylists > > My Lists > organize130808 ( 29 ) > https://library.minlib.net/patroninfo~S1/1196412/mylists?listNum=31980 > > Mark Title Author Date Added > [_] Record b2491348 is not available 03-12-2013 [_] Record b2522793 is not > available 03-12-2013 > > [_] Record b2926646 is not available 10-29-2011 [_] Record b2948837 is not > available 10-25-2011 >