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Allow recently deleted lists to be retrieved in order to prevent permanent accidental deletions.

When culling reading lists, especially when deciding between two that have been created with the same/similar names, it is easy to delete the wrong one. It would be helpful to have a retrieval feature in which recently deleted lists could be resto...
Guest about 1 year ago in Edit List 1 Reviewed - on hold

Add read-time estimates to resources

It could be useful if estimates of how long it takes to read/watch/listen to a resource were displayed. (I'm not sure if there is some kind of AI tool that could do this: https://martech.org/estimated-reading-times-increase-engagement/) This would...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 0 Reviewed - on hold

Enable a 'Key Theorist' label to be added to resources that are old but foundational

To enhance how reading lists can support the development of students' information literacy skills (particuarly among first-years), it would be useful if resources could be tagged/labelled as 'Key Theorist'. This would indicate to students that the...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 1 Planned

Add a 'Newest Edition' label to Books/Chapters based on metadata

Currently, if we want to indicate a Book/Chapter is the newest edition, we need to communciate this through Notes. It would be very useful if Books/Chapters were automatically tagged with a 'Newest edition' label based on their metadata. This woul...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 1 Planned

Add a 'Peer Reviewed' label to Articles/Journals based on ISSN

Currently, if we want to indicate an article/journal is peer-reviewed, we need to communciate this through a 'Note to students'. It would be very useful if Articles/Journals were automatically tagged with a 'Peer-reviewed' label based on their ISS...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 2 Addressed feedback

Create a 'List Health' function in the list 'Analytics' dashboard

In the list 'Analytics' dashboard there is 'Resource health' function. It would be useful if there was also a 'List health' function, indicating: How long since any resources have been added or removed from the list (not just when the list was las...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 1 Planned

★ Enable individual sections on lists to be hidden/visible only to staff

Many of our users would like the ability to make individual sections 'staff view only' aka 'not visible to students' even when the list is published. Hidden sections could be indicated by the standard 'eye-icon' that most users are familiar with. ...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 4 Reviewed - on hold

Change the colour of the 'Unpublished changes!' warning bar

Unfortunately our users often miss the 'Unpublished changes!' bar on lists as the yellow colour makes it look like a non-urgent 'status update' (like the blue bar 'A review has been request') rather than an important alert that they need to do som...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 2 Will not implement

Improve 'Resource health' functionality in List Analytics

Currently in list analytics, a resource says the 'Metadata could be improved' if: it has Editors instead of Authors if it has no Edition information because it is a first edition This is particularly frustrating when librarians are metadata-checki...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 1 Planned

Enable multiple timestamped 'Notes' to be added to resources including 'Notes FROM Library'

Currently we ask users to manually add the date and their name when they create a 'Note for Library' so librarians know when their note was written and by who. Unfortunately, our users often forget, and it can be difficult to distinguish new notes...
Sarah @ AUT about 1 year ago in Edit List 0 Planned