As a content editor, I want to merge item records so that I can combine item records and associate borrowing events when I've identified duplicated items.

[rlskoeser]

Notes for development

• should work similar to person merge does: select items from list view and choose a merge action
• Borrowing events should be combined on the main record
• Preserve creator information; warn if creator information is present and does not match (but ok if not present / only present on one item); warn if publication date is set for both but don’t match; should warn but allow to merge
• User should pick primary record; default to the one with the most information
• Copy publication date, uri; combine notes
• Add note: merged with db id on date
• return to item list page where the selection was triggered after completion (same as person merge)

[rlskoeser]

Blocked pending OCLC reconciliation work and decisions & data migration for work/edition data modeling.

[rlskoeser]

This is no longer blocked by OCLC work, but it's not clear to me if we still need the functionality or if remaining book work can be done without a merge feature.

[rlskoeser]

book merge feature no longer needed