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Put Add field selector above Part lookup in the bookmarking screen

While we have more issues with the new bookmarking interface that I think would be good to address in the future, a relatively easy change that would be beneficial to us would be to 'flip' the Add field and Part lookup selectors in the bookmarking...
Kia Owens 18 days ago in Bookmarking 4 Planned

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 8 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 8 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

option to change author to editor field without having to re-enter the information

Book editors are sometimes entered as authors so it would be great if you could somehow switch them to the editor without deleting the author and re-entering the information into an editor field. this would save time if there were a lot of correct...
Sally Watt over 1 year ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Remove ‘short title’ being included in the meta data fields bookmarked from journals

Currently when bookmarking from a journal, Talis automatically includes the field 'Short title' under the 'part of journal' section. As the full title of the journal displays there is no need for a short title version. It is not considered relevan...
Karen O'Donoghue 11 months ago in Bookmarking 3 Will not implement

Merge/link duplicate bookmarks in the system

Often the same resources are bookmarked by many different users, but with the metadata details varying slightly for each. It can be time-consuming to correct each occurence/variation. It would be very helpful if duplicate bookmarks could be merged...
Sarah @ AUT over 1 year ago in Bookmarking 2 Reviewed - on hold

My Bookmarks - list of bookmarks: add filters & tags

In the My Bookmarks area of Talis Reading List, add: tags or a method of grouping / categorising bookmarks a method of filtering items User feedback is that this would be beneficial for teaching staff who are delivering multiple courses / lists wi...
Guest 9 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Planned

Increase compatibility with Law resources

Currently appropriate metadata fields and citiation styles cannot be selected eg. NZLSG As a workaround, we put whole Law citation into the Title field. It would be helpful if there was increased compatibility with Law resources.
Sarah @ AUT over 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 3 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 3 months ago in Bookmarking 2 Already exists