Ares Ideas
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Change item deletion process to be safer and allow some form of undelete/recovery.
If a staff user deletes an item, it would be good to have that delete "delayed" until the end of the day in case it needs to be recovered immediately.
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Option to rename and hide queue names for routing in staff client
Perhaps, an enhancement is what we need to remove:
Route to Acquisitions
Recall Item
Awaiting Acquisitions Notification
Awaiting File Type Resolution
Awaiting Recall Processing
Awaiting ILL Processing – unless it can be edited to show as “In ILL Processing”4 votes -
Way to easily set multiple grid layouts in staff client
Currently you have to set each one up and there isn't a way to copy those settings from one grid to another.
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Staff would like to have scanned items automatically moved to the web
Instead of having staff open the form in the staff client to process the items, they would like a utility to scan that folder and automatically move them.
This could be an issue if sites are scanning ILLiad and Ares items to the same folder.
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3 votes
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Ability to limit which status(es) batch item upload will work with
They would like for the batch item upload to only upload files for items that are at specific queues, such as 'In Stacks Searching' and/or 'Awaiting Scanning.' They would like for it to work the way Odyssey Helper does in ILLiad. This is because the batch upload functionality automatically routes the item to available on reserves. Staff might still have to do a few things with it, such as finish copyright processing.
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Warning when cancelling a hard copy item if other courses still need it
When an instructor or staff person cancels a hard copy item, we need a way to know if this physical book is still needed on reserve for another current or pending course item. A popup notice or something like that would be very helpful.
For example, if a book is on reserve for several English courses, and one of the instructors decides to cancel their Ares item, we don't want to accidentally put the book back in the stacks since it is still on reserve for other courses right now.
We also wouldn't want to put a book back in…
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Monitoring length of time item is in "Awaiting copyright processing" virtual queue
It would be nice to measure how long items stay in the “Awaiting Copyright Processing” queue. Currently, when staff open an item in this queue and check for copyright compliance, if everything is ok, they simply remove the checkmark in the “Copyright required” box and the item is removed from the queue. However, removing the checkmark is not recorded in the “History” tab of the item. Therefore, I cannot see a way to measure (retrospectively) the time it takes between an item arriving in that queue (currently I look at the CurrentStatusDate to see when an item has arrived in…
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It'd be nice to have active links in the location field for eReserves items (similar to how links are displayed in the Link Checker).
Therefore, there would be no need to open the item record in order to access the link, and it would also make it easier to copy/paste.
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Search by tags
Would like to be able to search the Instructor Tags field in the staff client
--submitted on behalf of Johns Hopkins University3 votes -
Tracking entries reflect more accurately if the system or staff user initiated that status change
In some cases moving an item to one status immediately moves it to the next applicable status. That tracking entry has the staff username versus a "system" username.
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Check out feature for instructor owned items
Currently, the majority of our physical reserves are faculty copies that we have to add as temporary items to our ILS. This causes all manner of problems for our catalogers and for ILL (as we get a number of requests for these items). However, if Ares had a system very similar to the one in ILLiad that allows us to check in items from other libraries, I feel this would solve that problem. In ILLiad, we check a book from a lending library in using the ILL number, and a slip prints out with our TN, allowing us to scan…
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Option to double click on a item form tab to open it in a separate window
This probably only applies to addon tabs
1 vote
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