Talis Aspire Digitised Content
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Include module code in the subject line of automated emails
We would like to add module codes to the subject line of the automated emails that requesters get when their requests are made live or rejected. Many requesters look after several modules and request numbers mean nothing to them. It would be easier for them to see at a glance the module concerned and they are also more likely to pay attention to the email as a result.
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Uploaded module student numbers in the hierarchy snapshot, All list items and All lists reports
Can a column for uploaded module student numbers (as opposed to manually added student numbers) please be available in the hierarchy snapshot, All list items and All lists report? We do not currently use Reviews and this would ease our admin related to book purchasing.
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A communications facility in TADC to alert academics pre-rollover
It's important for us to be able to easily communicate with academics of their current digitisations and whether they would like them rolled over into the next period. Apart from a Bournemouth University issue with unit IDs changing every year which makes the rollover of digitisations essential it is vital that we maintain a communications link within the TADC module between library staff and the academic community engaged with TARL and TADC to preserve the integrity and relevance of content within reading lists
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Ability to indicate that a student has a disability
We would like a tick box somewhere on the request form so that an academic can indicate they have a student with a disability. We can then work with the academic to ascertain what support the student needs in terms of an alternative format or use of assistive technology.
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E-book availability checks
We would like to see a tool added to the concierge that would check availability of e-books for purchase from e-book aggregators, such as Askews, Dawson or EBL. As we do not digitise from items available as e-books, we would find it helpful to have the checks done by the concierge rather than perform them manually for each request.
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'Last Updated' date on All List items report
Would it be possible to add a 'last updated date' for the all list items to accompany the 'Last Published' and 'Date Added' in the 'all list items' file? This is so we can catch any items that have been updated e.g. library note, and the academic has not published / requested review.
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Email notifications when a digitisation request is assigned to a user
Would it be possible to get an email notification when a digitisation request is assigned to you?
We are wanting to let our academics request their own digitisations and then the library can assign the request to the relevant member of staff to deal with, depending on the outcome. At the moment each staff member would need to log in to TADC everyday to check if anything has been assigned to them, whereas getting an email would notify them straight away. This would help with our workflows for getting more digitisations on the system, within a reasonable amount of time.…
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Indicate in Reading Lists, if a Digitisation request has been made and rejected
If an Academic makes a Digitisation Request, which is rejected further down the line in Digitised Content. The Academic receives an email to this effect, but the Item in their Reading List has no indication that a Request was ever made. The "Request Digitisation" link is still available. I think Academics will forget they have requested the scan and it was rejected, and request a scan again....
Once a Request has been rejected, please can this be indicated on the Reading List - at least for the period of the Module or Academic Year.10 votesWe are exploring this idea, to see if it is possible to add a rejection status into reading lists.
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Prevent live digitisations on archived lists
When rolling over digitisations some of the digitsations are automatically going onto archived lists, which appear to be the newer lists, as opposed to the published lists.
We are then having to manually withdraw these digitisations and re- request them on the correct published list. This is extremely time consuming.
It would be great to prevent live digitisations even going onto archived lists in the first place, as there would be no instance where a live digitisation would be required on an archived list.
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Filter TADC request list 'All stages' by blank
A team of us deal with TADC requests and assign stages e.g. Book on order. We would like the ability to filter the request list to see only the requests which haven't been assigned a status so we do not visit requests unnecessarily.
9 votesWe are reviewing this idea to see if it will be possible to filter items by no stage set.
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Digitisation report by month as well as day
I want to be able to see how many digitisations were viewed/printed or downloaded by month without having to track the graph on the home page to find individual days and write them onto a spreadsheet. There is a report tells us which digitisations have been used and the number of students but not when they used them. I could even cope if there were a way of specifying a number of day range rather than number of days or if the existing graph could be downloaded as a csv showing the dates and number of views/downloads/prints.
Ideally I'd like…
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Digitisation #number on browser tab
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It would be useful if the browser tab for the digitisation you're looking at had the hashtag number on it, e.g. #9488At the moment it just says 'Digitised Content' which is not very descriptive when working on lots of digitisations.
Thanks,
Andrew Manton-Maund8 votes -
Exceeded copy limit workflow stage
It would be useful to have an exceeded copy limit workflow stage added to TADC. We found that we have to keep a note of the local workflow stages outside of TADC for requests that exceed the copy limit. For these requests, we check if an e-book is available for purchase and if not, we contact the lecturer asking them to prioritise one chapter. Having a mechanism to monitor those steps in TADC would mean that all information relating to a given request is available in one place.
8 votesWe have noted this piece of work and the advantage this would bring to your workflows. We will keep you updated as this is prioritised.
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Abiity to add a chapter author to metadata in a live TADC request
Sometimes I come across requests that are live on the system but lack a chapter/section author, despite this being different to the book editor. Perhaps I'm a perfectionist but for the sake of accuracy I'd like to be able to add the section author in without having to replace/copy the request. Could this be enabled please?
(You can edit existing section authors, but not add one where this was not in the original request - screenshot illustrates an example where I would like to add in an author's name)
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Add a 'date' field to identify when request was submitted on referred page
This would be useful to identify how long a request has been waiting to be actioned.
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Rollover - email to requestors
An automated way of contacting all requestors to find out what digitisations they would like to have rolled over would be very useful. Currently this involves sending lots of emails to the requestors of digitisations, to ask which digitisations they want made available next year, which is rather labour-intensive and time consuming.
7 votesThis idea is currently under review while we explore the rollover option in TADC.
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Add an option for "BL library privilege" in the "source of original" drop down menu.
We would like to add another option when uploading a document to TADC that says "BL library privilege". This would be used when we have purchased a copy of a chapter/article from the British Library when we own the item in print.
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Rollover digitisations to new time period
At present, the default start and end dates TADC uses for digitisation rollovers are the previously entered dates plus 1 year. Should module dates change, this will mean that course details need to be edited manually on a list-by-list basis. It would be useful therefore to have the default dates set as the new time period for the reading list that the items are on (or at least the option to choose these dates).
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include reject reason in email
When a Digitisation request is rejected, a reason is selected from a drop-down list. It would make sense for this reason to be included in the reject email to the Requestor. At present the same or similar information has to be typed into the Notes field.
(It may also be desirable, for institutions, to be able to ad to the reasons for rejection).6 votesWe are looking at this and how more information can be provided in the emails sent following a rejected digitisation.
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Adding restrictions to digitisation need-by dates
I would like to be able to restrict what dates can be selected when academics place digitisation requests. The ability to not select today's or tomorrow's date or even to block out a whole week, would allow us (library team) the chance to actually retrieve the item and get it scanned in time.
We quite often get digitisation requests with a very short need-by date and we struggle to keep up with demand, especially if items are on loan or missing from the shelves. We have told our academics that there is a 2 week turnaround for all requests, however…5 votes
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