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  1. Improve Delete Warning when removing a list section

    Various people have mentioned nodes and sections of lists being deleted by they-know-not-who. Hopefully these deletions have been made accidentally. Would it be possible to install a warning button "Are you sure you wish to delete...?"

    6 votes

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    completed  ·  Keji Adedeji responded

    This has not yet been scheduled but we plan to address this by improving the warning to: “Deleting this section will also remove all the resources in it from your list. Are you sure you want to remove this section and all the items in it?”

  2. Don't delete review logs

    Both subject and acquisition librarians review stock each year for items on reading lists, and decide on purchases based on various data. In Aspire, there is a very helpful log for notes, but we'd like two improvements:
    a) it should be exported along with the review outcome and item data
    b) it should never be deleted. If a second review takes place, all of the work done and notes made in the first review is lost. Review history should always be kept.

    10 votes

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  3. Need ability to link module to multiple departments

    In our hierarchy we have some modules which are taken across various departments within a school. We can currently only create a new module under one department, we can't link it to multiple departments. We need this ability.

    2 votes

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  4. Making library review outcome comments visible in CSV

    We would like to communicate list review outcomes not only to the owner of a list but to our Acquisitions team too, who would rather receive our purchase requests in Excel sheets than go and look them up in the Talis screen. So, exporting the outcome to an Excel sheet is quite useful here. But the only problem is Last comment under Review Outcome (in which we plan to convey our requests to our Acquisitions team) does not appear when the review is exported to Excel. Is there anything that can be done to make it appear? Thank you.

    3 votes

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  5. Show course code and department in 'List Length' report results

    Would it be possible to show the course code and department in the results of the List Length report?

    1 vote

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    completed  ·  Keji Adedeji responded

    The List Length report is has now been retired and has been replaced by what is currently called the All Lists report. This includes the list length information and also now includes the linked hierarchy node(s) codes for each list in the report. It is also possible to filter the report by the required hierarchy node code.

  6. Reports function - Departments with no lists attached

    In the new Reports function, there are options to show 'Modules without lists' and 'units without lists' - is it possible to have the same for 'Courses' as at Sussex we link the reading list to the Course title in the hierarchy. It would be very useful to identify which courses did not have a reading list attached.

    Annette

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    completed  ·  chrisc responded

    I’ve added a “Courses with no lists” report – let me know how you get on. I wasn’t sure from the Idea whether you meant courses or departments – but guessed you meant courses. Let me know how you get on.

  7. 2 votes

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  8. Allow students to rate resources within a list.

    Students can already note whether they have read an item or not but it would also be useful for academics and library staff to see how they evaluated individual items on a list.

    3 votes

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    This information is now reflected in the dashboard providing academics and library staff with feedback on how a student is interacting with the list via reading intentions and notes they are making.

  9. Search and reactivate archived lists

    From the user group (Anselm, Annette & Graham) - it should be possible to search for and reactivate archived lists. Perhaps users have to specifically indicate they are searching for archived lists (maybe by checking a tickbox).

    At the moment, it's not clear on how useful archived lists can be, as they cannot be usefully retrieved and reactivated at a later date.

    3 votes

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    completed  ·  chrisc responded

    There is now a management report to help you locate archived lists. From here, the archived list can be copied and thus revived.

  10. retaining student numbers

    We've just discovered that the student numbers data is removed when a review on a list is completed. We need this information to be retained, it's no use having it there just for a review and then when looking back for alterations etc it's no longer there. It should be retained and displayed on the list page for the appropriate logged in users (i.e. those with list publishing rights over that list/the tenancy).

    2 votes

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  11. allowing attaching lists to modules without using My Lists

    Library staff need to attach all the loaded lists to modules and need to attach academics' lists to modules currently too. At the moment they have to go to the list, Add to My Lists, go to the module, choose that list, go back to My Lists and remove it again. Could there be a 'list search' box for the library staff role so that they can search for the list and attach it to the module without having to add it to their My Lists and then remove it again? Thanks.

    2 votes

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  12. Ability to search on time period as well as

    In some cases we have several instances of a course (same course code and title) but for different time periods. Now that we are assigning a list to a time period, when you search by title is difficult to select the correct year. Previously we added 'Spring 2010' etc after the list title and course code.

    When using the search box, users need to be able to select academic year / term.

    Annette
    University of Sussex

    3 votes

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  13. Author entries on bookmarks

    When author details are brought in from catalogue or other source the format is surname, first name. However when you manually add this information to a bookmark the order is first name, surname. This results in author entries being inconsistent when viewed in a list and could confuse students when they are citing an item

    3 votes

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    completed  ·  Keji Adedeji responded

    We made some changes to ensure that when bookmarking they are put into the relevant fields which do display as first name, surname. However, Author names are displayed in format Surname, First name on the list and in the bookmark. The only instance where this does not occur is where we have not been able to match the resource in the catalogue and we bring in the format taken from the source site.

  14. Acquisitions - introduce the idea of 'states'

    To enable the Acquisitions Library Review process to support more complex workflows, it could be extremely useful to introduce the idea of 'states' (or similar) to lists under Review. Customers could select how many 'states' their workflow necessitates and what labels they wish to attach to 'State 1', 'State 2' and so on (e.g. 'Liaison Librarian review', 'Link checking', 'Acquisitions processing' etc). Lists submitted for review could arrive in 'State 1' and then be moved to 'State 2', 'State 3' as this review process progresses. The view of lists under Review could then be filtered according to State (e.g. 'Show…

    11 votes

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  15. 10 votes

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  16. Move existing node to be child of another

    If you have an existing node (e.g. Module A) associated as a child to another node (e.g Faculty Y) which you want to move beneath another node (e.g. Faculty Z), it is not possible to do with current functionality.

    This is something that can occur at times, and the only way to achieve this currently is (using the above example) to delete module X after disassociating any lists, and recreate it under Faculty Z.

    1 vote

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  17. Managing Invites

    I would like a management tool to see who invites have been sent to, if they have been successfully accepted and what roles have been assigned to them

    2 votes

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  18. Update an item record from DOI, ISBN or LCN

    At present, Aspire offers the ability to populate a blank Bookmark from a DOI. Once a Bookmark has been Saved, the populate-from-DOI option disappears.

    There are several use cases in which the ability to update (effectively to overwrite) an Item/Bookmark record from a DOI (and also an ISBN or local LCN) look-up could be very useful.

    Case 1: An academic has created a poor quality Bookmark from a journal web site not supported by the Bookmarklet. The relevant DOI is identified, and this is added by a librarian (or other reviewer) to an 'Update' value field. Full metadata is extracted…

    2 votes

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  19. Enabling lists to be sorted by importance

    Allow a student to be able to see resources on a list grouped by their assigned importance i.e. all the essential reading, all the recommended etc

    5 votes

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  20. Library Availability - 'not yet available' statuses

    Many resource lists will trigger new Acquisitions activities, but at present the Library Availability display in the Item record is premised on items already being in stock. If items are on their way to being in stock, the Availability look-up fails. It would be good if the Availability display could cope with a range of 'in process' statuses (which customers could assign on a Tenancy by Tenancy basis). In our case, those statuses would include 'On order', 'In processing', and 'In Cataloguing'

    2 votes

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