Rolling out E-books at Central College

One Year OnKirsteen Dowie

Head of Learning Resources

Our E- books

•Dawson Books (from November 2008)

• Ebrary (JISC e-books for FE) from (August 2009)

E-books Usage Session 2009/10

Overall e-books usage comparison

How did we get started?• Learning Resource Staff buy-in

• Time to review the resource over the summer

• Training session at JISC RSC

Joined up thinking – joined up learning resources

Roll out to teaching staff (1)

• Attend Head of Schools meeting

• Attend curricular school meetings at the start of the session to update them on new developments

• Attend curricular school meetings throughout the session

School of Business

LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Kirsteen Dowie

School of Beauty Sport & Health

LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Fiona McLennan

School of Hairdressing & Holistic Therapies

nLEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Fiona McLennan

School of IT & Digital Art

LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – John McMillan

School of Law & Social Sciences

LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts & John McMillan (Law) (Social Sciences)

School of Languages & International Studies

LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts

School of Commerce

LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts

Roll out to teaching staff (2)

• Learning Resources Newsletter and blog

• Workshops at 2 staff conferences this year

From Cathedral Street to Athens

©Robert Gordon University. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk.

©The Scotsman Publications Ltd. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk.

Without leaving your seat

• ©Victoria & Albert museum. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk.

The importance of teaching staff buy-in...coffee and communication

Image source Flickr – Cubist Coffee Cup by Oceanic

E-brary - what did we show them?

• How to search the database

• How to create an electronic bookshelf

• How to share an electronic bookshelf

Roll out to students

• General increased uptake of Athens password

• Applications easily accessible

• Presentations at desk and on plasma screens

• Increased workshops offered by Learning Resources Assistant

Workshops

Increase in the number of workshops given by Learning Resources Assistant

Further Developments• Further integration with VLE

(Moodle)

• More workshops

• More podcasts

And finally...

• Communicate, communicate, communicate

• Get them on your catalogue

• Make and share the electronic bookshelves

• Take every opportunity to promote the value of the e-books collection

... and give feedback

• One Management Team reporting

• Share your statistics

• Newsletter

Online resource usage