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Reading lists
Sarah Roughley & David Clay
NOWAL Exchange of Experience,
University of Manchester,
28th February 2011
Motivations
Reading lists weren’t assumed to be a problem outside the library but …..
“Nothing kills student interest in reading lists as readily as the unavailability or insufficient availability of apparently key items”
“the university should work with the library to ensure there are sufficient number of books on subjects set in assignments”
“…..…… nearly a third of students began their search using Blackboard VLE.”
Pilot Project
Four academic departments – History, Mathematical Sciences, Sociology and Social Policy, and the BVSc programme in Veterinary Sciences
Three library assistants from our Academic Liaison team were each allocated a subject.
Contacted every module leader to ask for a reading list, sending reminders where we didn’t get a response first time around
Recorded information on response rates, time taken to process etc
Mathematical Sciences – 51%
History – 47%
Sociology – 60%
Veterinary Science – 57%
Response rates
So far, we have received 130 reading lists from the four departments
Of these, 70% of the recommended books were either not stocked by the library at all or there were not sufficient copies for student numbers.
A 978 field is added to the bibliographic record of each item on a reading list
We start with the library catalogue
A brief record is created for journal articles including an Open URL link to the electronic version
Search for reading lists by module leader or code in the catalogue
LMS exports reading lists via RSS
RSS feeds are in embedded in subject Libguides ….
but can also be embedded in web pages
And added to Blackboard with a single click via a new add on developed by our computing staff
Using the LMS also allows us to generate usage statistics for items on the reading lists
Mathematical Sciences
Sociology and Social Policy
0
20
40
60
80
100
120
Mean number of items
Mean number of items
Mathematics Sociology and Social Policy
0
1000
2000
3000
4000
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6000
Number of items where checkout = 0
Total number of items on reading lists
Mathematical Sciences
Sociology and Social Policy
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20
40
60
80
100
120
Median number of items
Median number of items
Very long reading lists
Problems with RSS feeds updating and lack of native support for RSS in Blackboard
Academic staff can’t update reading lists
Time taken to create journal article records in the catalogue
Issues
Expand to more academic departments
Improve the response rate
Improve the look of reading lists in Blackboard
Simplifying journal article record creation
Make reading lists more accessible
Our system(s) vs alternatives
The future
Questions?