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Back-up copies of previous versions of lists

A new member of academic staff recently deleted several sections and numerous resources from two reading lists by accident. There is currently no way of reverting to the previous versions of these lists, as Talis does not keep any back-ups. We can...
Guest over 1 year ago in Edit List 2 Reviewed - on hold

Ability to set a local default when linking requests during rollover process

Our library does not rollover our lists but rolls over TACC scans at the end of the year ready to become live on 1st Jan the following year. Each time we roll over scans for a particular subject we need to manually change the option for "Manually ...
Fiona Lowe 5 months ago in Rollover 2 Future consideration

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 5 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Future consideration

Add a librarian to a list.

Your subject librarian is…” and then link to email/message them.
Katy Maydon about 2 months ago in Edit List 1 Already exists

Add a “I want this” or “buy this book” button

So academics can easily notify the library they would like an item ordered.
Katy Maydon about 2 months ago in Advanced Mis 1

Increase the size of student note

It is small and can get missed.
Katy Maydon about 2 months ago in Edit List 1 Future consideration

More General Customisation

For example: bold text, background colours, different coloured sections, etc. This would allow easier browsing for users and make it better to distinguish between sections.
Katy Maydon about 2 months ago in Branding 1 Will not implement

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 5 months ago in Bookmarking 2 Already exists

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 11 months ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold

All bookmark resource types should have the option to change author from Dual Field to Single Field

Some bookmark types (eg Book) have the option, when first bookmarking, to change the Author field from Dual Field to Single Field. For other bookmark types (eg Document), when first adding an Author field it can only be added as Dual Field; the op...
Guest about 1 year ago in Bookmarking 1 Reviewed - on hold