SCURL Community of Practice July 2013 Lisa Haddow & Valerie Wells

Background 2003/4 Sentient Discover pilot 2004 trial of TalisList Our model is a Central Service Model with library staff creating lists Range of staff involved in creation and management of reading lists Documentation, guides, policies, workflows, templates for s Lisa Haddow & Valerie Wells

Growing like Topsy Autumn 2005 semester 89 lists (just 3 created by academic staff) Autumn 2006, 130 lists Currently 311 lists in ASPIRE, approximately half of all modules Lisa Haddow & Valerie Wells

Benefits Increased contact and communication with staff. With academics and with CELD colleagues in Information Services. Know what students are expected to read and equally importantly what they are to purchase We have a better chance of getting the material in the library Sweating our assets, for example increased our use of the CLA digitisation licence 359 in in 2013 Lisa Haddow & Valerie Wells

Issues Costs £3525 for TalisList in 2005 £18360 for the current subscription to ASPIRE Staff No additional staff Scalability? Alternatives - RebusList Lisa Haddow & Valerie Wells

Challenges Involving academics Production of lists Negotiation of size of lists (QEC recommendations) Integration with existing workflows Managing expectations – ours and academics IT – issues with browsers, integration with our VLE – Blackboard Student issues – difficulty using Aspire – libguide created Lisa Haddow & Valerie Wells

Future Roll-over – in Spring 2014 More academics doing updates to list – pilot of 6 academics this semester Funding Further integration with existing University systems e.g. with OPAC Lisa Haddow & Valerie Wells