The Dashboard contains analytics on usage, editions, metadata, views, etc, which would be very useful if it was more widely available. The current restriction to List Owners or List Publishers prevents other relevant and appropriate interested parties for accessing and assessing this data.

In a Library managed model distributed across several campuses, we are not yet at the stage of giving teaching staff List Publisher roles and incorporating Reviews into our workflows. We also rarely have a single teaching member of staff, which makes List Owner not a useful feature either, being restricted to one person who has also created a profile, which requires an initial measure of lecturer engagement. The Dashboard analytics would be an excellent method to encourage that engagement and academic adoption rather than the other way round.

Failing releasing these role based restrictions, the next best option would be to make this data exportable, such as to csv or pdf, timestamped to indicate the date of export. We could then provide this to interested teaching staff.

We feel that we are missing out on a key way to share data on Library resource use, with the Dashboard feature being so locked down.

Stacey van Groll
Learning Resources Supervisor
University of Queensland

The summary list of "my notes" and "my reading intentions" displayed on one's username profile page do not expire or archive. Further they seem disorganised and are without a date stamp to indicate when a note was left. Instead the lists grow to contain notes and data from every old list. The lists would get very long and disorganised due to intentions and notes left from past reading lists, leading the profile summary page to become of little use to students.

For the My Notes and Reading Intentions sections, I recommend:
1) sorting (e.g. by date);
2) display the date stamp (especially for My Notes); and
3) archiving or only display "X items" per page.

We would like to be able to export a reading list in a bibliographic citation format but keeping the list structure, e.g. week one, week two etc. The current export options are 'export to PDF' which only lists title/author and doesn't contain the full bibliogaphic detail, or the 'view bibliography' button which lists everything alphabetically by author.

Our academics need to add reading list content to their printed course outlines so we need to be able to export reading lists from Aspire into the course outline, with a 'week by week' structure where appropriate. Many academics are understandably extremely reluctant to create a list in Aspire and a second version of the list elsewhere to be used in printed material.

Aspire needs to be able to fulfill all our requirements around producing and maintaining course reading list, which includes the ability to export data into other formats and places.

We expect a system to be accountable to an extent, and find it hard that there are no Aspire logs accessible. For instance, when a node has been deleted, there's no way of knowing who has deleted it (apparently our only method is to "ask around"). If lists are edited/deleted/archived, an administrator may well need to get the details of when this happened and who did it, if there are questions/audits/complaints/etc. Even if we are ourselves not able to do this, Support should be able to, so that we can get the information that we need. We cannot be fully satisfied with a system that appears to have been designed to allow actions to be untraceable.

I understand this idea has been rejected before but we would like to propose this again.

Increasingly our Reading List service is being asked to be able to identify which specific departments academics are based in, so that this information can be used for marketing purposes. Currently it is not possible for us to easily provide this information.

It would be very helpful to us to be able to tailor the Profile page to show the specific hierarchy of our University.

Aspire would then need to be able to provide this information in the reports, which would enable us to use the reports facility to filter academic names for specific departments.