How can I save favorite resources to use on my lists?

The Favorites feature in the Reading List tool allows you to collect your preferred resources and easily add them to multiple lists.

To access your Favorites, open any of your Reading Lists and click the Open in new tab button in the upper right.

This will open your list in a new browser tab in a full-screen view, no longer within the Canvas course site. You’ll now see additional menu options on the left.

Click the Favorites button.

Adding items directly to your Favorites

Open your Favorites and click the +Add button to access a menu of options.

Search the library opens the same search screen you see when you add items to a Reading List.

When you find an item you’d like to add, click the + sign (Add to favorites) and then click Add.

 

Or, if you realize that you have found something you want to add to one of your Reading Lists right away, you can click List instead of Favorites in the Add to menu, and you’ll get a pop up to choose which of your lists you’d like to add the item to.

Import offers two options. Choose From file to upload a document containing your citations.

Compatible file types are RIS, BibTex or References (a PDF document with a list of citations in a bibliographic format such as Chicago, MLA, etc.) Select your file type and either drag and drop the file or click to browse and select.

Choose From Zotero to import citations from the free citation management tool Zotero. You can learn more about using Zotero on the Tisch Library website.

The Manual entry option allows you to fill out a form to add an item that is not in the library’s collection.

For more information about this form, see the instructions for adding material the library does not own.

Adding an item from a Reading List to your Favorites

You can save items from any of your Reading Lists to your Favorites to easily reuse them on other lists.

In the Reading List, find the item and open the Item menu by clicking the three dots to the right of the title.

Choose Save as favorite.

Adding items from your Favorites to a Reading List

Open a Reading List, click the +Add button, and choose Add from favorites.

Your Favorites list will open. Add an item to the Reading List by hovering over the title and clicking and dragging it into the list, or by clicking the + button.