Expand Course Reserves Facet/Advanced Search Functionality
When working in Reading Lists and Courses the facet filtering limits staff to a single selection in a category at time. However, many institutions have multiple terms or staff liaisons serving more than one academic department. In such cases, it would be quite helpful to allow staff to select multiple facets. The inability to multi-select prevents staff and their managers from being able view the whole picture and effectively managing the work.
If that’s not possible, we’d like to request that you expand the advanced search options for reading lists, courses, and citations to make all of the facet options available as search parameters. This idea addresses missing functionality for both Leganto and Alma customers.
Etta Thornburg
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Catherine Riches
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We would find this very helpful too. For example, to prioritise reading list reviewing workloads, we would like to be able to filter to all course terms appropriate to a certain time of year where the list is 'ready for processing', but currently cannot do this.
Eg in Semester 1 we'd like to select all course terms other than 'Semester 2' - we have some courses that run all year long or across years, so we always want to see these whatever the time of year, but we'd like to be able to filter out those that only run in semester 1 or 2, depending on the time of year.
Currently we just have to leave them all visible and advise people to ignore the ones we'd like to filter out, but it would be a lot better to be able to select multiple options in a facet group to easily see workloads and avoid chance of something less urgent being picked up by mistake.