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Ability to select multiple fields to add when updating metadata

Staff would benefit from being able to add multiple fields at the same time when updating metadata, rather than adding each field separately.
Guest 3 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Bookmarking print and ebook in one go

Where we have a title in both print and ebook format, I'd love if we could make bookmarklet pick up the LCN for the print version, so we get copy and availability info in the bookmark, but also pick up the 856 $u URL or the Uresolver link for the ...
Guest over 1 year ago in Bookmarking 8 Feasibility Review

Colour coded bookmarks

It would be useful to be able to colour code bookmarks in a list, as aside from adding in a 'note for students' there's not really any way of emphasizing the importance of a particular bookmark in a list. For instance, I am currently editing a lis...
Guest 5 months ago in Bookmarking 3 Moved to Operations

When bookmarking books to include ISBNs with 020 |z's in RDA records as well as 020 |a's

A lot of the large record downloads from suppliers and other sources set ISBNs for e-books with |z (used for faulty ISBNs) at the front, not |a's. This is because the ISBNs are not in the actual e-book text (an absurd and pointless cataloguing pra...
Stuart Sharp 10 months ago in Bookmarking 3 Reviewed - on hold

Ability to set an institutional level retention period for storage of bookmarks by list editors and creators

We've had a number of problems related to bookmarks over the years, where our list creators and editor have used older bookmarks without checking whether the links work. This is particularly a problem when switching suppliers, such as when Dawsone...
Jill Hazard 11 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

All bookmark resource types should have the option to change author from Dual Field to Single Field

Some bookmark types (eg Book) have the option, when first bookmarking, to change the Author field from Dual Field to Single Field. For other bookmark types (eg Document), when first adding an Author field it can only be added as Dual Field; the op...
Guest about 1 year ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Sorting bookmarks

It would be great if the bookmarks could be sorted e.g. A-Z or by Importance. A-Z would be great for library staff to sort the sections alphabetically and for lectures it might be practical to sort their section/list by Importance. It would be goo...
Tina Macht 6 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Future consideration

Move bookmark with a Move to section option

Once you add a bookmark to a section, it can be quite time-intensive to move it up or down. It would be great to have another option to move up/move down, to Move to (and then choose the section where you want to move it to).
Tina Macht 6 months ago in Bookmarking 2 Already exists

Make OpenLibrary searching optional when bookmarking

We are finding, when bookmarking ebooks which are not stored in our library catalogue, that the URL is not being pulled through into the bookmark. This is because, upon finding the title not in our LMS, TARL is searching Open Library and pulling t...
Stephen Graham over 1 year ago in Bookmarking 3 Planned

Display Author names with consistency

I've noticed that when you create a manual entry in Talis you are given a format to enter the author names as: Author (first name, surname) But this then causes a mismatch in how the author details are displayed when you use the Add Resource butto...
Guest 5 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold