Ares Ideas
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12 votes
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Make permanent URLs for web links stay consistent after a link breaks.
Currently, if the underlying web link breaks, the permanent link will also break as the link is embeded in the permanent link. This causes extra work for staff, as they have to correct the link in Ares, and also ensure that the permanent link is changed in course shells and/or sylabi. If the permanent urls were tied to something other than the url (like the item number), it would be of significant value to our online courses.
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Being able to add individual items to multiple courses at one time, including instructor uploads
Instructors would like to be able to add an item to multiple courses at the point they fill in the request form. For example, many of our faculty teach two or more sections of a course. Mid-semester they may add an additional article. After filling in the article form, it would be great if they could check off other current classes they'd like it added to at the same time. That way they do not have to go back and clone the item into each section.
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Need more granular staff permissions for the Ares client.
This has been a pressing need for us for many years, and never seems to make it into the development priority list. Collections librarians, as well as learning/curriculum support librarians are constantly asking for access to the Ares client in order to understand what kinds of materials instructors in their subject area are adding to their course lists. But there is no way currently to provide client access without also giving access to user's information as well. Also, we really want them to have "view only" access - not to be able to change or delete materials that instructors have…
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Want to have an ebook item icon vs just a weblink item icon for all links in the web
Right now all weblinks use the same icon. But for Ebook items some sites mentioned at the Access Services conference that they would like ebooks to have their own icon vs just a weblink icon.
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Turnaround time report
Way to see how quickly items are processed from submission by instructor to delivery by staff (pending or available).
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Ability to import citations from an Excel or Word document
Submitted by ALA attendee: Many instructors drop off or email their syllabi. It would be nice if Ares could import the citations automatically from either Excel or by doing a screen scrape of a Word document, the way that Zotera does. This would save staff time on having to create requests from scratch.
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Option to store multiple documents for a single item
This keeps the site from having to manually combine them into a new single document for storage with the item.
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Ability to batch remove users, courses, and items with a utility
Some sites re-use usernames.
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Addons to make Reserve items available in the ILS from Ares
At the Access Services Conference in 2017 there was a lot of interest in addons to make Reserve Items available on the ILS from Ares.
Maybe it could be possible to have some generic ones available in the Addon Directory or otherwise easier for sites to create that connection between their ILS and Ares?9 votes -
Ability to control where items route to when they are cloned on the client side
Right now, physical items always route to 'Awaiting Reserves Processing' when they are cloned on the client side. It would be helpful if they could be routed to the same queue that the original items are in. This helps facilitate cloning that is done for courses that belong to the same semester.
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9 votes
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Option for "save and add another" button on web for instructors
This is a time saver for instructors
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ADA compliant staff client
Staff would like to be able to change the size/font without the screens being squished. Currently, increasing the font size or resolution on Windows makes certain buttons and menu options not visible.
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8 votes
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When importing items from another course, retain the custom sort order
If you clone a course, it retains the sort order. But when a new course is created and then you try to import items from a previous course via the web, it loses the custom order.
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Way for users to request a rescan within the system
There is no way for a user to request a rescan within Ares and allow for staff to correct it within the system.
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