Talis Aspire Reading Lists
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Free text within lists
Could we have the facility to add free text between items in a list. This might be used eg when a listowner wants to comment on a few books without creating a section for them.
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Print formatted list directly from browser
To enable academics and students to print out appropriately formatted Resource Lists for physical reference and annotation, additional print CSS configurations should be added to the appropriate Aspire page views to support a correctly formatted print presentation, rather than a simple print-out of the fully rendered web page.
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Library Availability and electronic content
When electronic material records are pulled from the Library Catalogue, the $856 URL is extracted to become the URL of the resource in Talis. In the absence of Holdings data for these items, the Library Availability look-up is reported as unavailable. It might be preferable if the look-up script checked (against a set of rules) the presence of certain values in the Aspire record for the resource (such as a Web address or electronic resource format) and then not attempt the look-up, but instead present the end user a message such as: "This electronic material is available online. Access it…
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Combining Edit Functions
At the moment there are two edit buttons with separate functions. The first (when in edit mode for the whole list) allows you to add a "Note for Student" and choose from the "Importance" drop-down menu. The second appears once an item has been selected and appears as "Edit this Resource" allowing you to add / correct fields such as Author, Title, etc. If it were possible it would be easier for users if these two edit functions were combined.
1 voteIt’s now possible to edit the item metadata right from within the list editor
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Share experiences on engaging with academics
I think it would be useful to have somewhere where customers could share successes (and failures) in engaging academics with Aspire. This could be simple tips and 'funny' stories- to detailed strategies and approaches you have applied with assessments on the outcome.
I'm not sure what form this community would be delivered in- but would be keen to know if people thought it would be valuable.
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Add bookmark directly to a list
It would be useful to be able to 'refresh' My Bookmarks list from within the Edit List view as there may be an item that you want to add to a list but that you haven't yet bookmarkleted. If you move away from the list and Bookmarklet the resource- at the moment it is necessary to Save and close the list you are working on and go back into Edit List in order for the new Bookmark item to appear in the list in Edit view.
Ideally- from the library perspective it would be very useful to be able to…
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Status of New Resource Lists and Acquisitions
When a new list is created and saved- it is instantly live. In order to allow the list creator to decide when the list is finished and ready to be made public or ready for the library to acquire resources for the course- other options for status of a list are needed.
Suggestions: Draft- Finished- Published- Archived
Idea: A status 'Finished' could automatically generate a report to the library so that they can acquire the necessary resources for the course. This kind of report would need to include course information as well as some indication around the importance of each…
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Managing 'My Lists'
Could My Lists view be developed to include managing lists- showing status of lists and maybe to be able to filter lists by status or by department?
Regardless of the extent to which the library or academics are involved in the creation of lists- someone- somewhere will need to see an overview and be able to provide statistics.
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Improving sorting of bookmarks
From one of our academics ...
Improved sorting of bookmarks in MyBookmarks area.
1 voteWe are converting the My Bookmarks page to the table view style as used in My Lists – this will allow better sorting by item type, authors, etc. Now complete – see http://blogs.talis.com/aspire/2010/03/11/aspire-release-11th-march/
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Recommendations rejection update
Reasons why a recommendation is rejected should be given - selected from a pull-down list. Reasons could include:
Insufficient funds
Out of print
Unavailble to the University
Already in stockI'm sure there are others
1 voteThis exists in reviews log
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Bookmark search
Our academics have assumed that the search bookmark searched all fields. This does not seem to be the case. We would like to see searches covering the 'bib' detail of the contents of the bookmark including:-
Author
Serial Title
DateAs well as searching any notes they have added to the bookmark
1 voteThis was delivered as part of the My Bookmarks screen refactor – see http://blogs.talis.com/aspire/2010/03/11/aspire-release-11th-march/
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Sorting MyLists table
From an acdademic ...
It would be really useful if- on the
1 voteThe My Lists table can now be sorted by clicking on the column headings.
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Removing lists from 'my lists'
Academic staff don't always teach the same courses year on year so they would need to be able to remove from their 'my lists' area- the ones for which they are no longer responsible.
1 voteThis has been completed and delivered to product.
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Alert when date format is incorrect
Can the required date format/s be shown along side the date field when you Bookmark an item?
Also can you implement a warning message if the date is wrong so that there is an opportunity to edit the date before adding to the list?
At the moment- an article with a date in the format 2003-6-2 can be added to a list and you don't that there is an error until you check through the list and see the 'Unknown Error' message in place of any metadata.
Annette
1 voteWe removed the date format requirement from Aspire as what users were actually trying to convey was a date or time period string – sometimes a date, sometimes an approximation (~1900) sometimes a range (1901-1910)
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New Talis Forum discussion group for Aspire
As new universities are now coming on board with Aspire- could you set up a new Talis Forum discussion group for libraries to discuss day-to-day experiences of using Aspire?
I think this would be useful as we are all likely to be at different stages of implementation and we could learn from each other's experiences. The Idea Scale is more for new ideas and suggestions- the Aspire Blog serves the purpose of keeping up-to-date with new releases - so it would be useful to have more of a discussion forum that Aspire customers could use.
Annette
1 voteThe JISC mailing list LIS-TALIS-ASPIRE is currently being used for this purpose.
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Order of display results
What isn't clear to me is why the reading lists and the modules they belong to don't appear together in the list of results displayed following a search. For example, if we search for 'Early childhood', we get a page of links in which 'International Comparisons in Early Childhood Care/Education appears as a List, and then further down the page we see U70171 - International Comparisons in Early Childhood Care/Education appearing separately. I can see that if you go into either the list or the module, you get to the same thing eventually, but I would have thought they should…
0 votesSearch has been refactored and the different types of results grouped
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Share local marketing collateral
Related to my idea on 'sharing experiences engaging with academics'- I've also been thinking about how Aspire is marketed to academics and students before- during and post-launch. Customers will be producing local marketing material- and Talis are also looking at generating material that customers could use. Would a place where all of this material could be gathered and shared be of interest?
0 votesThe Community Content & Experiences support forum handles this
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Use an API to let users provide feedback/ideas around the Talis Aspire site
Would be great if this ideascale could be pulled into an existing products microsite (such as http://www.talis.com/aspire) using some sort of API- either at sever or client level.
0 votesAspire ideas is now fully integrated into our website and new support site.
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Add a resource directly to a list without adding to My Bookmarks
My Bookmarks is an excellent feature for developing a store of resources for future use but when you know that you want to add 5 specific items from the catalogue- for example- you may not want or need to store these resources in My bookmarks. Using the same Bookmarkleting tool- would it be possible to have the choice of either adding directly to the list OR storing within My Bookmarks?
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Adding a manual entry to a list
Although most published material can be found on a catalogue or database and imported using the Bookmarklet tool- there are some occasions when an item can't be found in this way- for example- an article from an obscure journal or unpublished material. In Edit View there is a the option to add a 'New Section' to the list - it would be useful to have a similar option to add a 'New Resource' to the list.
0 votesUse Manual Add from the My Bookmarks area
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