When a staff account that created a public list is deleted, that public list is no longer connected to an account, and can not be changed. I propose that all lists can be viewed, edited and deleted by a superlibrarian. Christopher
It would also be preferable if the superlibrarian could also associate an existing account with the orphaned list. Christopher
This topic is/was in discussion on several older reports too. For instance, bug 11889. Note that deleting a user should also delete his public lists currently (this has been different for a short period of time). But you may not always like that..
See Bug 11889 - I have created a patch for a syspref that lets you choose whether to delete a user's lists when you delete their account, or if the ownership of those lists will get transferred to the person who deleted the owner.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 11889 ***