Reading lists at liverpool for talis open day 6 march

Pre-requisites advised by Talis

1. Support from senior university management

2. Computing support to integrate with VLE

3. Dedicated Academic Liaison team for roll-out

Take your opportunity

Timing

Funding

Project lead

Learn from others

http://support.talisaspire.com/

Open Day videos http://www.youtube.com/user/TalisAspire

Richard Cross, NTU

Trudy Turner, Kent

June Hedges, UCL

Visits from/to Talis

Project team

Carole Rhodes (Academic Liaison & Project lead)

Keith Hinds (Acquisitions Manager)

Sarah Roughley (Acquisitions Library Assistant)

Joe Schulkins (Library Systems)

One Page Project Plan

The original OPPM is Copyright OC Tanner 2008.

One-Page Project Plan was adapted by

David Sommer Consulting

for the Practical Project Management Workshop.

http://www.DavidSommerConsulting.com

Objectives:

Data migrated in

Library staff using Talis Aspire

Reading lists in VITAL

Staff and students using reading lists

Project Name:

Talis Aspire implementation

Project Goal:

Make the Talis Aspire system

operational (for library staff, academics

and students)

Completion Date: 23-Sep-13

Project Leader:

Carole Rhodes

Updated on:

26-Mar-13

1. Contract with Talis has been signed

2. Communication plan has been created

3. Consultation has taken place on name and branding 4. Tenancy Set-Up Questionnaire has been completed 5. Senior staff have been brought on board to back Aspire

6. Basic Tenancy has been set up 7. Reading list strategy document has been created

8. Liaison Librarians and library staff have been engaged

9. Faculty Student Experience committees / leads made aware

10. Authentication issues have been resolved 11. Workflows and policies have been designed 12. Reading list items have been imported

13. Imported data have been thoroughly checked & tested 14. Training materials have been prepared

15. Training for Liaison Librarians has been delivered

16. Training for Library Assistants has been delivered 17. Reading list items have been edited with importance etc.

18. Full Tenancy with branding has been set up

19. Building block has been installed on VITAL test server

20. Building block has been installed live on VITAL 21. Training plan is in place for academics 22. Marketing materials are ready for academics and students

23. Web support page is in place for academics and students 24. Presentations given at L&T committee/conference/elearn

25. Demos to Schools/Depts are complete.

26. Academics have edited / created lists

27. Academics have been updated on service launch 28. Service has been launched 29. Students are finding reading list items via Talis Aspire

30. Digitisation module is in use

Communication

To whom? Library staff (all), academics, students,

admin staff …

How? Via all channels: newsletters, briefing documents,

submissions to committees, departmental meetings,

Learning and Teaching conference …

Upbeat message - and keep going on about it!

Advocates

Find early adopters/advocates

Guild (Students’ Union)

Academics to persuade their colleagues

Keep a compliments file

“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 2.07 had 3,574 page views in January 2014.

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 Dixon

School 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

Integration, integration, integration

VLE: Blackboard (VITAL)

Library Web pages

Library catalogue

Discovery service (Discover)

LibGuides

Programme Planner

Work is ongoing to make reading lists part of university

systems and processes.

What’s in a name?

A pre-populated system

1,700 lists when Reading Lists @ Liverpool went live

23rd September 2013

63% (?) of modules covered

Data imported from library catalogue

Lists edited by library staff

Much easier to engage academics if some of the work

has been done for them

Success

Success project kicked off July 2013, running to July

2014

Small team again, but ownership of success is spread

out to all Liaison Librarians

Another project, another plan …

Making Reading Lists @ Liverpool an integral part of

the university.

… to be continued …