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Ebook cover images

We find the book cover images useful for new users in making the lists more attractive to the eye. These work fine when we are including physical books on the list, but as we are increasingly moving to an e-first policy the ISBN no longer has a co...
Ian Haydock 10 months ago in Edit List 3 Reviewed - on hold

Limiting academic permissions in Editing List Details

Currently, academics have the permission to modify the time period and change the title (course code) in the "Edit list details" section. We suggest that academics should not have permission to edit list details, including changing the time period...
Grace Fu 3 months ago in User roles and permissions 1 Reviewed - on hold

Adding comments to the email sent when assigning a list in reviews

It would be very helpful to be able to add a comment when we assign lists to colleagues for review, if the comment is a general one for the whole list e.g. all chapter pages need updating to the new editions etc. This saves us marking every item f...
Guest 17 days ago in Reviews 1 Future consideration

Allow for multiple entries to be added to the criteria fields when creating reports

We have the need to exclude a large number of modules from having their RLOs archived. the current work around suggested is a lot of additional work, and may not be possible for some based on restrictions at their institution (ability to install a...
Jill Hazard 2 months ago in Reports 1 Future consideration

Search functionality in TADC

When using the 'search by' function in TADC the search parameters are currently restricted to 'request no.', 'course' or 'requester' Is it possible to broaden this to include ISBN, title of work or author at least? Other search terms such as publi...
Justin Gwinnett 5 months ago in  TADC 1 Feasibility Review

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 2 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

Please automate daily ingestion of EZproxy stanza data into Aspire as is already done for Lean Library

Our EZproxy stanza data is sent automatically to Lean Library from Alma on a daily basis. Are there any plans to make this data available to Talis Aspire? We are currently faced with spending time every week, checking and then either whitelisting ...
T M 4 months ago in Proxy 0 Moved to Operations

Alerts/reports for when DCS submission requests are unsuccessful

It would be useful to receive an alert or to be able to run a report to check for any instances of "DCS SubmitRequest unsuccessful" appearing in the comment of a request. Currently if a DCS submission request is unsuccessful, the request sits with...
Guest about 2 months ago in DCS Integration 4 Feasibility Review

Warning message for deleting items with active/pending digitisation request

Recently an academic deleted a number of reading list items with digitisations attached, but there was no warning for them (beyond the standard item deletion message), and no indication to us that this had happened until we were checking the link ...
Chantal Tucker 6 months ago in  TADC 2 Reviewed - on hold

Make it an option for 'Quick Add' function to only search 'My bookmarks'

Currently our 'Quick Add' enables users to add resources by searching by title, author, or ISBN-13, as well as My Bookmarks/recently added. We do not encourage our users to add new resources this way as they often struggle to find exactly what the...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 month ago in Edit List 1 Reviewed - on hold