Post on 07-Jan-2017
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Resource Lists: An Academic’s Perspective
Dr Erin Sullivan@_erinsullivan_
Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
Why adopt?• University-wide shift – change inevitable• Avoid duplication of labour – old approach to
reading lists• Integrated with library catalogue and VLE• Host for PDF scans produced through Copyright
Licensing Agreement (CLA)• Distance learning
The benefits• Convergence of information and teaching
systems – streamline student experience• CLA scans don’t have to be managed and
migrated separately – had been an annual summer task
• No more separate annual reading list updates
The benefits• Now that it’s all there, can just adjust it
year on year – work is frontloaded• Library can keep track of what students
are accessing and borrowing, adjust buying accordingly
The drawbacks• Possibly reduces opportunities for students to
practice catalogue searching• CLA scans still time consuming because library
doesn’t yet do the scanning• Considerable time commitment to set everything up• Editing mechanism in ResourceLists fiddly – multiple
layers
The drawbacks• Library catalogue integration not perfect
• Automatically inputted details need editing• Book chapters awkward because they don’t
have separate catalogue entries• Ebooks awkward because of discrete (and
disparate) entries in catalogue
Going forward• Feeding back to library about integration
with catalogue – opportunity to review how entries are formatted, and how ebook acquisition and access works?
• Feeding back to Talis about editing layers and book chapter formatting in lists
Going forward• Monitoring student progress and
research capability• Enlisting help of PG assistant to help with
setting up further lists and CLA scanning
Resource Lists: An Academic’s Perspective
Dr Erin Sullivan@_erinsullivan_
Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham
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