1. Be ahead of the crowd: quality online reading lists with RL@A
Andrea Packwood
Jane Shelley
Subject Librarians – University Library

2. If one of the central difficulties surrounding reading lists concerns engagement, then it begs the question what approaches might be developed in order to engender greater student engagement with them? (Stokes and Martin, 2008)…
Stokes, P. and Martin, L., 2008 Reading lists: a study of tutor and student perceptions, expectations and realities, Studies in Higher Education, 33(2) pp

3. ReadingLists@Anglia What is it?
Cloud based
Interactive and online access to resources
System - Talis Aspire Campus Edition
Cloud based system enabling academic staff to transform resource discovery and access for learners
Talis Aspire Campus Edition is used by over 20% of British universities offering attractive reading lists that are easy to build

4. ReadingLists@Anglia Benefits
Improve student experience
Easy to use for academics
Q. Why move to online reading and resource lists?
A. Students can be frustrated when, as shown by NSS scores for example:
Resource lists contain material not available in the library
Resource lists have out of date books on them
They provide no context or guidance
It is difficult to access the material on the list
They can’t find a resource list for their module
Online reading lists can help overcome all of these issues.
Benefits of online reading lists:
Improve student experience - clarity
Dynamic reading lists with context
Active links for e-resources
Better academic experience - accessible
Easy to use and better metadata
Easy to share and collaborate on list creation
Improve independent learning
Analytics, metrics & statistics (Dashboard)

5. Workflow… START Create a profile END
Login to the system
Set up your profile (note you need a public profile)
Install the Bookmarklet button for your browser in “My Bookmarks” (note you can do this for various browsers).
Create a list (you will build up a list in a section called “My Lists”)
Create bookmarks from the library and other sources [Edit where necessary and save bookmarks]
Create additional bookmarks from the rest of the web and other sources if required
Structure the list into sections and populate the list with the bookmarks you created earlier
Publish the list
Attach the list to your module using “Link to Hierarchy” - we will tell you a bit more at the end....

6.
Examples of online reading lists

7. Reading Resources Strategy
Reading Resources Strategy
Lists that work for
your students
you
the Library

8. ReadingLists@Anglia Reading List content…

9. Copyright and digitisation
Copyright and digitisation
Our guide to copyright includes information on the recent changes which came into force on the 1st June 2014.
Copying under Licence – provides information on the digitisation service which helps you provide material such as journal articles and book chapters easily via your online reading list and the VLE and at the same time stay within the law.
Choose the “copying under licence” section for information and the online submission form.

10. Information on services for you…
Academic Staff Guide
Includes another way of finding information and help on:
Copyright
VLE/Digitisation service
Your subject librarians
Information on services for you…

11. Workflow…
START Create a profile
END…

12. Reading
Andrea Packwood
Jane Shelley