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Exclude publishers from search parameters

Selectors would like the ability to exclude certain publishers when searching in GOBI
Guest 5 months ago in Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Include GOBI Technical Services specifications in an "Admin Dashboard"

Please program Mosaic so that the Technical Services specifications are viewable within the platform under administrator permissions. This would be very useful for staying on top of the current settings, rather than having PDFs emailed.
Guest about 1 year ago in  Administrative and User Account Controls 0 Future consideration

Gobi Manage Folders sort - either preserve choice within setting or allow us to set default

Within a single Gobi login session, when I sort the Manage Library Folders list, I have to keep re-sorting it every time I follow one of the folders to do some ordering, and then come back to pull the contents of the next folder. And the default s...
Guest 9 months ago in Acquisition Workflow 1 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

When searching Selections or Recommendations ability to search by user's name

For libraries that have a lot of GOBI Users or GobiAlert users, having the ability to search by the first/last name rather than only initials would be helpful.
Guest about 1 year ago in Selection Workflow 1 Future consideration

Add "Submitted By" & "Initials" to Library Activity Search

Currently, there is no way to generate a report of who submitted orders/selections in GOBI. It would be very useful to have the "Submitted By" and "Initials" fields available in Library Activity Search.
Guest over 1 year ago in Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Make GOBI Saved Reports permanently saved instead of expiring after 10 days

Make GOBI Saved Reports permanently saved instead of expiring after 10 days. I want to be able to save particular Expenditure Report parameters that I only need to run once a month or once a semester. The Saved Searches function doesn't auto-delet...
Guest over 1 year ago in Reporting and Analysis 0 Future consideration

Enable easily adding an alternate edition from the drop-down menu

The current alternate edition drop-down list only lists titles; if you want to add one to the cart you have to click into the menu and then select the appropriate title and add it, or click the item's ISBN and to view the individual title and add ...
Sara Carman almost 2 years ago in User Interface 0 Future consideration

List author affiliations in GOBI notifications so we don't have to check them ourselves before deciding whether to purchase.

Useful for librarians who prefer not to purchase titles in their subject areas by authors outside those disciplines.
Guest about 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services / Selection Workflow 0 Future consideration

Approval Platform

The more parameters we can set on the platform ourselves for our approval plans, the easier is the administration of the approvals.
Guest about 2 years ago in Profiling and Approval Services 0 Future consideration