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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

https://bham.rl.talis.com/lists/766C809F-E090-2F66-3A23-B4987055C9E3.html

https://canvas.bham.ac.uk/courses/13402

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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