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.
I would like the system be able to detect Who is responsible for selecting titles for which fund code to avoid accidental selecting "wrong" fund code for a title.
Ability to add notes and "GobiExpress" feature to add information (adding fund code, etc.) to titles in search results rather than only in Select/Order cart
A "Material Type" field has recently been added to the "Enter Order Details" box. This field includes such categories as Museum Passes, DVD, Faculty Item, etc. GOBI does not sell Museum Passes or DVDs, so why should a selector have to waste time o...
A new Location field has recently been added that requires selectors to choose the destination of the item within the selector's library. This field serves no useful purpose and should be deleted.
It might be useful to enable users to set up a default sort/filter for their search results on the new ordering platform so they don't have to apply the same filters every time as we do in GOBI. If they are often searching with the same parameters...
Occasionally there are ebooks from EBSCO or ProQuest that do not allow users to download any pages. It would be helpful to have this information somewhere on the Gobi ordering screen.
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.
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
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Future consideration
Full text search of eBooks available to find the titles students need
I have often been looking for eBooks containing a particular concept and will not find a title using the currently limited search. I have needed to go to Google Books, search full text there, and then come back to see if the eBooks found are avail...