At the moment in the Review screen for any individual list, there is nothing to indicate when a list was last previously reviewed, or which items have been added since the last review. (You can obviously see items in the order they have been added; but in order to know which are new since the last review, you need to know the previous review date, and that doesn't display - you have to remember to go and search for it in Reviews before starting to review the list.)

Obviously if all your staff are using the Log when they review items, then whether there is anything in the Log provides an indication, but our reviews are mostly done at present by Academic Liaison staff and they may record their decisions about purchase, etc, elsewhere (or just go ahead and order).

A quick straightforward way to filter on "Items added since last review" - or just clearly displaying the previous review date - would be helpful and save time.

We would like to be able to bulk archive reading lists for a given time period at the end of September each year.

Our policy is to keep the current year's reading lists public in Aspire until the end of September for the benefit of any students that are doing re-sits. However, the only bulk option for archiving lists is only available during the Rollover of lists to a new time-period. We rollover lists at the end of the Summer term (June) so that academics or library staff can start editing the list for the next academic year. So from June to September, we have two year's lists accessible to users. Now, at the end of September we have over 1,000 lists to be archived and the only way to do this is manually, one by one.

Please can we suggest a new functionality to bulk archive reading lists from a particular time-period.

Annette Moore
Technical Services Librarian
University of Sussex

I’ve been getting feedback from tutors recently who are ‘adamant’ that they’ve published lists, but have then been chased as owners of draft lists. I suspect this is to do with them requesting a review and assuming that publishing happens simultaneously.

We don’t want to configure our system so that we get sent an automatic review for every single published list, and we want to encourage lecturers to take ownership of their lists, publishing and reviewing appropriately.

If they had an option to 'Request review & publish' this would really help make clear to them what was happening when they sent a list off for review.

See also closed idea from 2014 http://ideas.talis.com/forums/32805-talis-aspire-reading-lists-ideas-archive/suggestions/6666241-new-request-review-and-publish-option-for-review

A few academic staff at our institution have found it frustrating and time consuming to move references from one week to another when editing their reading lists using the existing drag and drop method. It would be helpful if, in edit mode, there was a 'move to' option whereby a reference could, for example, be moved from Week 1 to Week 9 without the need to drag it all the way down to the bottom of the reading list. It would be good if this could work along the same lines as the 'create & add to list' option when bookmarking where a reference can be added to a specified point on the reading list.

When viewing a list in 'My Lists', there is an option to "Export". This provides a table with the following columns: Date Added, Title, Type, Item Link, Local Control Number, ISBN10, ISBN13, ISSN, EISSN, DOI, Importance, Note for Student, and Note for Library.

At Monash, we would like to have the web address included in the fields that are exported. It could sit adjacent to the 'DOI' column. This will be advantageous to us because we have to suppress and unsuppress our links to digitised items for copyright reasons and we would be able to identify the digitised items using the web address far quicker (they are all on our separate image server).

I have been told by Talis that real time reporting will be available "shortly" and that this will include the web addresses automatically. However, since "Shortly" is undefined, it may be worth adding this to the current 'Export' functionality.

Alternatively, the Report 'All List Items' could be amended to give an option of selecting an individual list rather than having to select the whole lot.

Allow requests for simple return of list, section and item titles and urls via json.

Intended to allow finer grain integration with VLE similar to that demoed by Sussex, but without relying on web scraping:

http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/elearningteam/2013/12/10/integrating-reading-lists-talis-aspire/

This would get the reading list content out of an iframe and into the html of the page, and allow the VLE theme to take consistent control of the display of the reading list material.

Also allows for innovation by the VLE maintainers with relation to the adding and viewing of reading lists.

Acknowledge potential issues with metrics capture Aspire side, but highly value greater freedom with UX design in VLE.