Read 'em and weep

“remember to thank all the books you haven't read over the past three years”

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Read ‘em and weep

Thursday, 6 September 12

What is a Reading List?Something to get through course validationList of resources students will need refer to constantly through the courseBibliography of useful resources for a courseWeek by week readingList of books the library should stock

אThursday, 6 September 12

Around 2000, working at RHULDecided to implement the Aleph Course reserves

•Course reserves and Reading Lists are related but not the same•Clunky data entry (spreadsheets)•Clunky interface (you’ve used an OPAC right? Just lists - not sections or other organisation - just a list of stuff)•Didn’t handle things not in the library very well

http://sb.aleph.fcla.edu/F/?func=file&file_name=basic-u-wfu30&local_base=u-wfu30Thursday, 6 September 12

Functional, but not pretty

http://sb.aleph.fcla.edu/F/?func=file&file_name=basic-u-wfu30&local_base=u-wfu30

http://sb.aleph.fcla.edu/F/?func=file&file_name=basic-u-wfu30&local_base=u-wfu30

א++Thursday, 6 September 12

Wanted to: •build on what we’d already done•improve data entry (reduce duplication) not the same•allow more organisation within lists•focus on recreating experience of ‘printed’ lists

lessons:•Some lists are very very long•data entry improved (just and ID for library materials) but still clunky (Access db)•still not so good for non-library materials

http://liblists.sussex.ac.uk/lists/003FCDD4-B594-C84C-151F-164B90C66A32.html


Note that a lot of the readings are different chapters from the ‘course book’Also note that a film screening (presumably to happen in class) is included in the ‘reading list’

http://www.rhul.ac.uk/mediaarts/informationforcurrentstudents/undergraduatereading.aspx


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OLIVE - Open Linking in a Virtual (learning) Environmenthttp://wwwedit.wmin.ac.uk/olive/deliverables/OLIVE_Project_Report.pdfTwo parts to project:Westminster focused on integrating federated search with Blackboard - about using power of federated search to make data entry easy and deal with items not in the library (print) collection easilyRHUL focused on making linking easy - creating OpenURLs. Got involved with discussions about an IMS standard for Resource List Integration (http://www.imsglobal.org/rli/) (later JISC funded attempt to implement IMS RLI not very successful http://www.jisc.ac.uk/uploaded_documents/ed-finalreport.doc but more to do with Web Services than concept?)Lessons:Benefits to integrationVLEs don’t do a good job of handling resource lists without effort



http://lists.lib.plymouth.ac.uk/lists/abf203.html


Who is going to read all 116 items on this list?





My Reading List wilderness years - Imperial CollegeFocus on acquisitionsSpreadsheets and Access databasesLots of work



https://rlo.ncl.ac.uk/modules/MAS1041/2012


Nice short list - easy to do, all books



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TELSTAR (Technology Enhanced Learning supporting STudents to achieve Academic Rigour)http://www8.open.ac.uk/telstar/Different approach - about integrating Referencing with learning environmentFocus on Moodle VLETwo different ways of delivering items: 1.integrated into written material2.lists of references(plus a load of other stuff)Lessons:Tension between library desire to ‘manage’ the lists and ease of integration of lists with teaching content (not moved on from ‘I just have my list in a word doc’)Sometimes reading lists are a general list of resources, high level, e.g. list of journals or databases - and for these a ‘reference’ style doesn’t really work



http://lasu.salford.ac.uk/displaylist/AD-W200-20225-13


More general materials that might be of use during the course - different to more directed reading




Sir Louie project at the University of Oxfordhttp://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/sirlouie/Reading lists managed by “Citation Helper” tool in SakaiIntegrated ‘add to resource list’ function into Discovery service - aimed at academics who might build the list


Sir Louie project at the University of Oxfordhttp://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/sirlouie/Reading lists managed by “Citation Helper” tool in SakaiUsed link back to resource discovery to be able to integrate display of electronic availability (via link resolver)


Sir Louie project at the University of Oxfordhttp://blogs.oucs.ox.ac.uk/sirlouie/Reading lists managed by “Citation Helper” tool in SakaiUsed link back to resource discovery to be able to integrate display print details (ultimately from Aleph)

http://mycourse.solent.ac.uk/mod/readinglist/view.php?id=20061


Re-implementation of Telstar with focus on the ‘reading list’ aspectDifferent approach to integrating into the VLE - build lists in RefWorks but allow integration into course by pasting a URLIntegration into local resource discovery (Primo) and library catalogue (Aleph) as well as OpenURLPresentation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlO8rgqR_pkArticle at http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/2040/1/January_2012_31-38.pdf





A reading list - but not meant for the library?



Why do you want to ‘manage’ reading lists?


Be clear about what you want to achieve


Who is it for?What is it for?

Think about integrations, prioritise

the most important for your aims


It’s an investment


Not cheap, think about the long term:Improve student experienceReduce library costsShow value for moneyAdherence to licences

If it was easy, everyone would be doing it


In some ways ‘reading lists’ are a condensed form of the the library service - discovery, delivery, in context, for learning“It appears that there is simply not an easy and cost-effective out-of-the box solution to providing reading lists since there are so many different requirements and issues to address.”http://ssudl.solent.ac.uk/2040/1/January_2012_31-38.pdf

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