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This Ideas Portal enables you to share any ideas you have for GOBI, ECM or the upcoming new books ordering platform, as well as vote and comment on any submitted ideas.

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Show when a title is already in my GOBI Select Cart

In GOBI, when looking at a record, I want to be able to see if it is already in my Select Cart. I find myself putting titles into the Select Cart two or three times because of my library's workflows. I search for titles to consider selecting perio...
Guest over 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add "Exclude titles already owned" from GOBI Add titles by ISBN search

Add a checkbox to "Exclude titles already acquired or on order" from GOBI's "Add titles by ISBN" search. This function is extremely useful in the similar Alternate Formats search. Having it available in Add Titles by ISBN would allow my library to...
Guest over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Toggle between alternate editions

Allow me to add an item to a folder one time and select or change the edition with one click. (Currently to swap paperback for hardcover or eBook I have to click away from my list to alternate editions, add the edition to my folder, then delete th...
Guest almost 2 years ago in User Interface 1 Future consideration

Search library activity by cancellation date

Each week we search our cancelled orders under "library activity" to update our records and reorder. However, we can only search cancelled orders by an order date range, then manually check the cancellation date of each title. The ability to searc...
Guest about 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Integration with library system

We need integration with our library system (Alma) to better expose the following within the selection process: current available balance on selected funds current holdings including whether we own or only have access to a book title
Guest about 2 years ago in Acquisition Workflow / APIs and Integration 0 Future consideration

eBook Manager: more options to refine search, and export result lists

We have the following suggestions for improvement of the eBook Manager interface: An option to refine search by titles that have "Copies reserved for online use". Currently, it's possible to refine search by "Title-level download settings". We wou...
Heidi Jahnsen 12 months ago in eBook Management 3 Future consideration

Accessibility metadata for selecting: Features books have for readers with print disabilities

I would like to see the accessibility features of the book that is being considered for purchase. For example, is the publisher Global Certified Accessible through Benetech? Does the book have headers? Is it a correctly tagged EPUB?
Mark Weiler about 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 1 Future consideration

Ability to transfer and make derivative copies of GOBI Folders, Searches, Templates between user logins

My library has had lots of staff turnover and we also collaborate on ordering/collection development projects frequently. I would like GOBI templates, folders, notifications, etc. to be searchable across the library so that I can easily transfer t...
Guest over 1 year ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

show number of available copies

Show the number of copies available. This helps when ordering multiple copies. Knowing that number on hand ahead of time will avoid having orders cancelled.
Linda Nilles over 1 year ago in Acquisition Workflow 0 Future consideration

Add description of the book to data displayed

Please provide the publisher's description of the book so I don't have to check the publisher's website to get an idea of what's the book about.
Susanne van Rijn almost 2 years ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration