Across the Universe Do You Want to Know a Secret Reading Lists @ Liverpool Iaunched in Sept 2013 1,700 lists at the outset Mostly imported from our.

Reading Lists @ Liverpool: a case study

Aberystwyth University Learning and Teaching

Conference – September 2014

Dr Lisa Shaw, Reader, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Clair Sharpe, Liaison Librarian

Or, An example of how Librarians and Academics have come together in the best interests of Student Teaching and Learning by using Talis Aspire Reading List software to collate and organise reading list materials….(simple).

Across the Universe

Do You Want to Know a Secret

Reading Lists @ Liverpool Iaunched in Sept 2013

1,700 lists at the outset

Mostly imported from our previous ‘system’: catalogue records with a reading list field added

Tell Me What You See

Current recommendations were solicited by email from module coordinators

Lists were created/edited by Library Acquisitions staff

Much easier to engage academics if there is something to see already in the system

I Want to Hold Your Hand

Library staffing capacity

Ownership

Immediacy of list creation/editing

Student experience

Come Together

Success project

Liaison Librarians

Meetings

Web presence

Training

Peer persuasion

Objectives: 

Champions have been identifiedSupport and training has been establishedMarketing has been deliveredStudent feedback has been obtained

Project Name: 

Reading Lists @ Liverpool Success 

Project Goal: 

Staff and students are using Reading Lists @ Liverpool by July 2014

Completion Date: 30-Jul-14

Project Leader: 

Clair Sharpe

Updated on: 

30-Jul-14

From Me to You

I Want to Tell You

Student Experience Committees

Staff-Student Liaison Committees

Blackboard Baseline Group

Guild (Students’ Union)

University Learning & Teaching Conference, June 2014

Here, There and Everywhere

VLE: Blackboard (known as VITAL)

Library Web pages

Library catalogue

Discovery service: EDS (known as Discover)

Programme Planner

Got to Get You into My Life

Module coordinators were invited to lunchtime training sessions. Staff signed up in advance.

A total of 6 workshops ran in December and February.

47 academic staff attended in total.

3 Liaison Librarians were in attendance each time.

They liked it!

I went to the workshop on the Library’s excellent Reading Lists @ Liverpool enterprise, a scheme that allows you to construct a reading list via the library site (but which is not limited to the library holdings and allows links to external resources to be added in one place, even letting media clips be inserted) which you can then link to your module VITAL site and by which students can access the catalogue, the resources and their availability as relevant, directly.

It’s very impressive and, crucially, easy to use. I’d encourage you all to think about using it and if you need any help getting started I’ll do my best to assist.

Dr Rebecca DixonSchool of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

Students seemed to react well to it: it’s visually more attractive than other available forms of listing we have used (e.g. within VITAL itself) and directly brings up much more relevant information (such as library stocks).

So I would say that student response has been positive so far, though I can’t say that I asked them specifically about this function — it was just there in the background.

Prof Mark Collier School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology

Shout

Our early adopters have been invaluable as advocates

Academics are best placed to persuade their peers

Training session attendees asked if they’ll be contacts for other colleagues in their schools and departments

“At first I didn’t see the point of this system. Now I wish we’d got it years ago. I wouldn’t want to be without it.”

Dr Laszlo Pazmany School of Medicine

Author of our most popular lists: PBL modules for Medical students. Module 2.13 had 3,139 page views in May

2014.

Have you heard the one about the medic, the mathematician and the linguist?

A short video, professionally filmed

Featuring an academic from each of the three Faculties

Footage of the library and relevant screenshots are shown while the academics describe the advantages of the system

http://libguides.liv.ac.uk/readinglists

With a Little Help from My Friends

HISP333: Brazilian popular culture module

The lecturer’s story: from technophobe to convertIt is very easy to set up and to update/ rolls over

to subsequent years

Small investment of time initially but actually saved me a lot of time

I used it in my lectures to avoid having to imbed clips etc. in PowerPoint presentations (this also familiarized students with how to use it and its benefits)

It had a direct impact on improved academic results

Student feedback (1)

“It directly takes you to the material you need”

“It made me read more than I normally do/ go that extra mile”

“I wouldn’t have known where to start looking on YouTube for audiovisual material – this pinpointing really helped”

“How else would I have known how to choose reliable websites or material on YouTube? – This way I knew I wasn’t wasting time”

Student feedback (2) “Because I’m not a Portuguese speaker it would have been

very difficult for me to Google audiovisual material relating to Brazilian popular culture”

“Doing my own searches for audiovisual material on the web would have wasted a lot of time and I know I would have got distracted and looked for other irrelevant things”

“It saved me time so I actually read more than I usually would to prepare for an assessed essay”

“I wrote my essay on Bossa nova songs and because I could access songs directly via the YouTube links and lyrics websites I carried out a lot of my own analysis rather than just relying on secondary sources, as I normally do in essays”

Student feedback (3)

“Once I found the books that were listed on the electronic reading list I still browsed the shelves in the library and found additional sources myself”

“The list enabled me to initially read a little bit on each topic via the electronic articles/books/previews so that I could make a more informed choice of essay topic. It also allowed me to judge if a particular book was worth getting out of the library or downloading”.

“It helped me to organise myself and manage my time more effectively both when writing the assessed essay and revising for the exam”

Student feedback (4)

“Why don’t other tutors do it?”

Academic resultsStudents spontaneously emailed me to

recommend additional sources they found so I could add them to the list (- they actively engaged in their learning)

In the assessed essays students referred to a greater number of sources in their bibliography than in previous years – they included less irrelevant sources and it did not prevent them from consulting additional sources not listed

Far greater incorporation of references to secondary sources in the exam answers

Hello, Goodbye

Dr Lisa Shaw, Reader, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies

Clair Sharpe, Liaison Librarian

Beatles references Across the Universe - Let It Be 1968

Do You Want to Know a Secret – Please Please Me 1963

Tell Me What You See – Help! 1965

I Want to Hold Your Hand - Past Masters Volume 1 1963

Come Together – Abbey Road 1969

From Me to You - Past Masters Volume 1 1963

I Want to Tell You – Revolver 1966

Here, There and Everywhere – Revolver 1966

Got to Get You into My Life – Revolver 1966

Shout - Anthology 1 1964

With a Little Help from My Friends - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band 1967

Hello, Goodbye - Magical Mystery Tour 1967