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Not having the chapter title overwritten when performing a LCN/ISBN lookup
Currently, when updating a chapter bookmark by performing a LCN or ISBN lookup, the chapter title is lost and the book title appears in the chapter title field.
Surely somebody has raised this issue before?
Thank you.
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Reviews screen - move the Vendor information below previous review outcomes/decisions
With several vendors now integrated into the Vendor section in the Review screen - and a lot of information in particular often coming from Askews & Holts - this section has now pushed the display of previous outcomes and comments for a given item off the bottom of the screen.
This is unhelpful as library staff usually need to see previous outcomes/comments before deciding whether further purchasing is required - so in effect this information is in the wrong order.
Could the vendor information please be moved below the outcomes/comments section?
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Retrieval of deleted lists
We would like a function to retrieve deleted lists. We know that on some platforms you are able to go back 30 days or something similar to restore items and we would like a similar feature added as we recently found that an incredibly long list with 200+ items were deleted and had taken the lecturer a while to compile it. We believe that even though this is a rarity there should be some sort of fail-safe in place to accommodate the accidental deletion of a reading list.
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Display alternative to 'view online' button for physical items in results list
Problem: If there is no 'view online' button for a resource many students assume we do not have the resource. It does not occur to them to click the title to see if there are print copies. The default behaviour is to scan through the list looking for/clicking the 'view online' button and no button means no access to the resource.
Solution: For physical resources there should be a button or link on the list in the same place as the 'view online' button so students understand there may be another way to access the resource. Ideally this would be…
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Give Library staff the ability to view Aspire as another role would see it
Moodle has a very useful feature whereby staff roles have the option to view Moodle pages as another role would see them (eg Student). While Aspire reading lists have Student View, it would be really helpful if those with the most-permissions roles (eg Library staff) could choose to view as if they only had the permissions of a lesser role (eg List Publisher).
We often find when attempting to help academic staff with Aspire that there is confusion about what those staff can or can't see on their screen, as Library staff with the Acquisitions role have more permissions and…
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Report broken link - More visibility for user to submit their details
"Report Broken link", we had a student mention they've reported a few and never heard back. During the meeting I went in myself to show them and completely missed it myself. Looking back now I can see the 'Request a response and add more details' in black text above the buttons. It's quite camoflagued there as the eyes focus on the buttons.
We're wondering if Talis would consider:
(A) Adding a third button - cancel, report anonomously, report with your email address (wording not too worried about)
OR
(B) Making the report button capture email details by default.I think…
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Ability to delete previous outcomes in review
In the review section there is a trial of all outcomes for an item across all the different lists. This can be very useful to see how the item has been dealt with elsewhere by different people. For example the first outcome may be stock sufficient but later when added to a new list it was then set to be ordered. Having this trail of outcomes if very good. However, there may be occasions where an outcome is set in error or someone hasn't understand the process correctly. In these instances we would like the ability to delete the previous…
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Review level notes and/or assigning reviewer notes
It would be very useful from the perspective of someone supervising the reviews process to have:
a top-level review note that anyone who looks at a review can see
and/or
a note that can be sent to an assignee when a review is assigned to them
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Identify whether latest edition in use, in bulk
Run a report that covers an entire teaching period (or more), that can be exported from TALIS Reading Lists identifying:
- resources that have a later edition
- whether that later edition is owned by the library or not
- resources that are not linked to a library copy
Currently, in the latest NEW LIST VIEW, the only option is to send each Reading List for Review and go through each individual resource to gather this information.
The option to run a report with this data would save days/weeks of copy/pasting and enable us to:
- offer our lecturers this data for consideration
- identify…
16 votes - resources that have a later edition
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Search tool on new list view to include ability to search text in notes
On classic list view it was possible to search a resourcelist for a piece of text in a note using your browser's 'Find' tool/Ctrl + F. On new list view you can search for authors and titles using the search box, but the way pages load means it's not possible to use Ctrl + F to find the text in notes.
We often use notes as place-holders on lists we're working on (e.g. for a book not in stock in the Library that needs to be ordered) and it would be useful if some equivalent find tool could be put…
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Is it possible to delete the notes added to items in the review section
We make extensive use of the note functionality in our processes - collections assistants append notes on decisions to inform librarians and overseas colleagues of purchasing decisions. Some items end up with dozens of notes and when we make a mistake we have to add another note to say ignore the above note. Can we delete them instead?
16 votesWe will consider this idea in the next round of changes we make to the Reviews area of Talis Aspire.
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Ability to manage user permissions
After some discussion we feel it would be useful to have the ability to control user permissions. There may be instances where we would like to give library staff the ability to publish lists but would then like to remove that permission or change their role.
16 votesThis is a valuable idea and user management is an area I would like us to investigate further in the future.
However its not in our near term development focus, so it has been moved to the longer term backlog. Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Alert list owners/publishers when library adds new item to their list via automatic email
When academics order new titles for their resource list, we put an internal note to that effect in our order records and acquisitions add that title to the relevant Talis list once the books have arrived. Please can this action by the library trigger an automatic email to the list owner and list publishers to say that new items have been added to their list by the library and that they should add the necessary details to the new entry as needed? This would save so much time and we wouldn't need to send a separate email to those academics…
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Show digitisation rejected
In the list edit view mode, it would be great if where it says digitisation live and pending, it would also show when a digitisation has been rejected. This would help limit duplicate requests, and provide a quick answer to why there isn't a digitisation without having to check TADC separately.
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Rename Audio-visual document
There are various requests for changes to theway Resource types are managed. Until these are resolved could we at least rename
Audio-visual document to
Audio-visual15 votesThis is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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Improve Dashboard visibility and exportability
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…
15 votesWe would like to review the dashboard can be shared with academics where permissions and roles are not given to them.
However, this is not currently in our near term development focus so it has been moved to the longer term backlog.
Ideas may be graduated from the backlog as we get through the ones that are planned.
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On 'recent changes' include who published the list
At present clicking on 'recent changes' shows the name of the list, the date, what was added. It would be very useful to see the email address of who actually published the list to keep track of activity.
15 votesUsing the All List Report does allow you to see who last published a reading list. As changes to a list may have been done by library staff updating a link it may confuse if this is in the front end under ‘recent changes’ as to why the list was published by someone other than the academic. We will keep an open watch on this idea though.
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Communicate result of Review Outcome to list owner
Once a list review has been completed the requester is e-mailed and informed that the review is complete. However s/he cannot see the results of the review, the helpful comments and information that have been added by library staff. Could the link in the message be changed so that it takes the requester to the results of hte review, rather than to the reading list.
15 votes
Keji Adedeji
responded
We are investigating this in the reviews theme
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Ability to set priority level for reviews
We would like to be able to set a priority level for lists sent for review and then be able to filter/sort the reviews in priority order. Ideally the priority levels could be configurable (e.g. High, Medium, Low or Priority 1, Priority 2) for each institution, similar to review stages.
Aspire reviews are currently based on a steady stream of reading lists, dealt with in order of the date/time requested, with no other sort options. In practice when there is high demand before the start of semesters, it is important that reviews can be prioritised according to other criteria (e.g.…
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Be able to filter to new edition alerts in reviews
It would be useful if you could filter to the items that have an alert for a new edition rather than just alerts in general. This would help to identify new editions without having to go through every item in the list.
14 votes
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