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Student view – make the collapsed sections view more attractive
We set longer lists to open with sections collapsed and would not want to change this. However in the new UI this "sections collapsed" opening screen is overly clean and not very attractive. We would like something which entices students to want to delve further. In the old UI there were thumbnails for each section based on the book covers of the first few citations on the list. The new UI would benefit from something more visual: perhaps a thumbnail or icon for each section.
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Leganto UI: Remove the Full Details link to simplify interface options
There are four different places that staff can click on a citation to view, add or edit information which is unnecessarily confusing.
Suggestion: Remove the full details link as this pane can also be opened by clicking on the availability info. This would leave three distinct options for viewing and editing citation information:
- Clicking on the citation allows notes and tags to be added and digitisation requests to be placed.
- Clicking on the availability info gives full detail about holdings/links
- Clicking on edit allows the staff member to edit the item details
This would simplify the interface and also has…
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Option to indent citations e.g. for alternative editions/citations
Currently instructors are able to indent section headings. It would be really useful if they could also indent a particular citation within the sections. This would be particularly useful when there are two editions of a book, as it would make it clearer visually that the two citations are linked. We often list 2 editions of a book because we are unable to buy sufficient copies or there is not much difference between editions. Increasingly we may also have an e-book of a very old edition but only print copies of newer editions. Currently when there are multiple editions in…
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Student view – make additional action icons available for items, e.g. quick cite
Currently the share icon is the only 'action' that is visible in the list alongside the citation. Other actions can only be accessed via the citation menu.
This is inconsistent with the UI in Primo where students can access several actions using icons which appear alongside the item. We believe that the user experience of both systems would be improved by greater consistency in how this functionality is accessed by exposing more of the actions in the citation menu as icons in Leganto.
Ideally, we would like to see icons for quick cite, save to favourites and export as this…
3 votes -
Close the pop up window after viewing full details or editing a citation by clicking on the main list behind
Next to each citation in a Leganto list, there are options to view Full Details, Edit or Share. When you click on either Edit or Full Details, a pop-up window opens on the right of the screen. This window can only be closed by clicking on the x to close pane. However, the Share pop-up window and the 3 dot menu have light dismiss functionality and can be closed just by clicking back into the main list. It would be more intuitive to users if all pop-up windows and menus had the light dismiss functionality, to close simply by clicking…
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Add an Unselect all citation button to the Leganto userface
An Unselect All citations button is needed. There are currently 2 ways to unselect citations which you have edited:
- Use the 'Select all' checkbox, which then changes to 'Deselect all'.
- Close the actions bar using the X, which also clears the selection.
If you have moved one or more citations up or down the list, it is very easy to forget to unselect a citation, before starting to select another citation to move it. It should not be necessary to have to close the actions bar between actions. An Unselect All button is a feature which instructors are familiar with…
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Provide accurate Citation Type data in Purchase Requests
The purchase request records created by the new Purchase Request Workflow introduced in June 2026 include the requestor's choice of physical or electronic format. But they may not accurately reflect the choice of Citation Type made in Leganto. This is because the resulting Purchase Request has only two Citation Types: Book and Journal. If the submitted request is for one of those two types, then they are accurately reflected in the Purchase Request processed by Acquisitions staff. But if any other Citation Type is selected in Leganto, such as an article, video, or music score, it is not accurately reflected…
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Improve "Leganto identify deleted eresources" job in Alma by displaying provider information from where the resource has been deleted, pres
Whilst it is great to have the new "Leganto identify deleted eresources" job as a tool to highlight such deletes, the report should detail provider information from where the resource has been deleted and if the citation possesses any other inventory. At the moment, this report details:
- citation tile
- portfolio ID (which is no longer relevant as it will have been deleted once the report is generated)
- course code
- reading list ID
- reading list name
- citation IDThis means that there is a need to investigate each line in the report to see if:…
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Clicking on 'Full details' should take you directly to the 'Details' tab
When clicking on 'Full details', you are directed to the 'Links and availability' tab, whereas you should be taken directly to the 'Details' tab AND not have to click on 'More item details' once in the Details tab.
When clicking on 'View online', you are taken to the 'Links and availability' tab (which makes sense), so one would expect that clicking on 'Full details' would take you to the 'Details' tab. Most likely, this is what users want when selecting 'Full details' instead of actually clicking on the link.
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Reset Copyright status when a file is uploaded.
When a citation is for a physical book from our collection – the copyright status is defaulted to “not required” However, if the instructor later decides to upload a file – the copyright status does not change/recalculate - it should! It could potentially violate Fair Dealing/copyright permissions.
6 votes -
Leganto integration with LMS Canvas Ignite AI functionality
I find it essential to develop an integration between Leganto and the new Canvas Ignite LMS functionality to make it easier for students to find reading lists directly within Canvas
4 votes -
Librarians' filter for 'null' tags on Alma and Leganto
A lot of the libraries here use the library-internal tags to set stages in the life-cycle of citations on a reading list. However, it is not possible currently to filter - either on Alma or Leganto - to citations with no tags. It would be great if it were possible for Librarians to filter for items with no tags on Alma and Leganto, which would therefore probably need some library intervention of some sort.
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Request for Improvement in APA 7 Reference Export: Option to Exclude URLs
When using the APA 7 reference export function, the system includes source links (URLs) by default. We suggest adding a configuration option that allows users to exclude these links and export only the text of the bibliographic reference.
This functionality would significantly optimize the bibliographic management that instructors perform when recording references directly in their syllabi. Currently, due to institutional regulations requiring that references not include links, instructors must manually remove URLs one by one, creating an unnecessary workload.
4 votes -
Colour-coding on tags (especially Importance tags)
I think this is an idea floated before, but it's come up again as feedback and I would like Ideas Exchange to revisit :)
Tags are not very visually different from the general colourscheme on Leganto; this makes them harder to pick out from the rest of the citation. Additionally, we use student tags for Importance (Essential/Recommended/Further) as part of our commitment to flexible and inclusive teaching. It would be really useful if we could pick colours for these tags a) to help students spot them more easily on the citations, and b) so we could colour-code for importance levels,…
9 votes -
Allow institutions to configure the order of list creation options on the LMS quick start screen
(NOTE: This idea is piggybacking off of LENH-I-6142, an enhancement request submitted by Kingston University in London, which did not receive enough votes in Round 1 to be sent to Ex Libris).
When the AI syllabus assistant is enabled for instructors, this option appears as the first (and largest) tile on the quick start screen. While we would like to eventually introduce this option to faculty, we'd prefer more of a soft launch approach that leaves the two standard existing options (create list and roll over list) as the most prominent/default workflow, while establishing the syllabus assistant tile as an…
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Integrate CCC Annual Academic License (RightFind) Coverage Checks into Leganto
Leganto currently integrates with the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC) only for pay‑per‑use licensing. Many institutions, however, already hold a CCC Annual Academic License, requiring staff and instructors to manually check permissions in RightFind outside of Leganto. Integrating automated annual license coverage checks (via RightFind or CCC repertoire lookup) directly into the Leganto citation workflow would eliminate duplicate work, reduce errors, and surface clear copyright status at the point of citation creation. This would save time, improve instructor and staff workflows, strengthen copyright compliance, and better leverage existing CCC investments—making Leganto a more complete system for managing course readings.
23 votes -
Copy reading list assignee for instructor rollover
In the Course Loader integration, there is an option to "On Rollover Copy Assignee." This same option should also be available for instructor‑initiated list rollover.
When an instructor rolls over a reading list, the existing assignee should automatically be copied to the new list. In addition, an automated email notification should be sent to the assignee to inform them that they have been assigned to the newly rolled‑over list.
For institutions who enable the feature, this would ensure consistent assignee handling regardless of rollover method while reducing the need for staff to track unassigned reading lists in the Alma task…
10 votes -
Posibilidad de reemplazar el ítem sugerido por Syllabus con IA/Option to Replace the Item Suggested by Syllabus AI
Sería interesante que luego de que la IA reconoce que un ítem está en biblioteca, el docente pueda reemplazarlo por otro.
Contexto: tenemos el mismo título pero en diferentes sedes (catalogados como ítems diferentes) y los docentes quieren elegir el que prefieren.It would be useful if, after the AI identifies that an item is available in the library, the instructor could replace it with a different one.
Context: We hold the same title across different campus locations (cataloged as distinct items), and instructors wish to select the specific copy they prefer.
(Translated by Google Translate)3 votes -
Automatic refresh on embedded reading list / citation (on Canvas) when updated in Leganto
When a citation is updated for an already published reading list, which is embedded in the LMS (Canvas) as a Reading List or embedded item, the Canvas citation isn't updated. This means the citations aren't updated in Canvas. This should be automatically refreshed if the citation is updated.
6 votes -
Different default section views
Following user testing, we set our sections as collapsed by default.
However, some lists have only one section, and when going into such lists it can look very odd to land on a single collapsed section. It would be a lovely little enhancement if you could set that Lists with >1 section have collapsed by default and lists with only one section are default expanded. (I'm aware that lists can have individual defaults set, but I don't think many users are aware of this despite training and documentation!)4 votes
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