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ability to schedule Book Metadata Refresh

We are starting to use Review functionality for our acquisitions process, so it would be really useful if we could schedule the Book Metadata Refresh to run daily and out of hours at a quiet time.
Christiane Kloos 1 day ago in Reviews 1 Future consideration
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Resource type list - allow customisation

We would like to add 'Databases" to the resource type list. I have seen other users would like to add other resources types. Why not allow users to add resource types to the list that work for their organisation?
Guest over 1 year ago in Edit List 6 Future consideration

Automated message when list sent for review

It would be great if we could automatically generate a message to send out to list publishers to inform them that their reading list has been sent for review (in a similar way that a message is sent out when a review is completed). i.e. We would l...
Amjad Husain 6 days ago in Reviews 1 Future consideration

Mandatory importances to be available when using the 'Add Resource' feature in list view

We have recently enabled mandatory importances. However, many of our academics use the 'Add Resource' feature to add items to their lists. Unfortunately adding items in this way does not force an importance to be set, only a prompt at list publish...
Guest 4 months ago in Importances 2 Planned

Enable list publishers/Library staff to make copies of the published version of a list

In the absence of an Undo button for accidental section deletion, it would be really useful to be able to make a Copy of the published (rather than Draft) version of a reading list. We often get academics accidentally deleting large sections of th...
Guest about 1 month ago in Edit List 1 Reviewed - on hold

additional functionality in the update all bookmarks option provided

Issue – Currently when we update list items we are informed when the specific bookmark is being used is on multiple lists. As we are usually updating listed created by others (e.g. switching to a print or e edition of a book when it’s available or...
Jill Hazard 22 days ago in Edit List 3 Future consideration

Librarian Dashboard

My "blue sky thinking idea" - a librarian dashboard. A librarian could log in and see, all on one page things like: Recently updated lists Scan requests "Your" lists Actions to take Lists to review etc!
Katy Maydon 7 days ago in User Profiles 1 Future consideration

Return to the item after editing its metadata, not the top of the list

After we have edited the metadata for an item on a reading list it would help us if Aspire was to return us to that section of the list, rather than the top of the list. Where we have a long list this would reduce a lot of scrolling.
Guest 7 days ago in Edit List 1 Will not implement

Enable upload of documents in MS Word format (or other non pdf formats) into reading lists and TADC vault

To enable management of alternative accessible format documents provided to our students, we would like to manage these documents by creating a reading list and uploading the documents to the TADC vault. The optimum format for accessible documents...
Fiona Lowe 6 months ago in  TADC 1 Planned

We'd like to be able to put in our own text at the top of the Feedback form

We would like to reword and add links into the text on the top of the Feedback form for users to guide them to online help, plus different teams in the library according to their issues . The fixed message is not very helpful currently.
Guest 28 days ago in Edit List 1 Future consideration