1. Reading Lists @ La Trobe
Talis Team February 2014
Presented by Lea Beranek and Olga Tilkeridis
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2. Lea Beranek
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Back-ground
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Progress
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Change to implementation
Olga Tilkeridis
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Administrative, training, procedures and demonstration details
Questions
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3. Talis Working Group
Formed April 2013
Simon Huggard – Talis Working Group Project Manager
Lea Beranek – Talis Team Leader
Olga Tilkeridis – Talis Team Coordinator
Julie Conroy – Reserve Team Leader
Maria Ammazzalorso – Ereserve Coordinator
Marnie Sier – ILDDS Team Leader
Sami Bagdas – Circulation team Leader
Lynette Brown – Digital Discovery Coordinator
Steve Inman – Customer Requirement Analyst - ICT
Meetings were held weekly and included video conference with Alison Kershaw, UK Talis every alternate
week – given time zone meetings often ran until 6.00pm Australian.
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4. Talis Teams –
formed April 2013
Lea Beranek – Talis Team Leader
Olga Tilkeridis – Talis Team Coordinator.
Melbourne Campus
Julie Conroy, Maria Ammazzalorso, Marnie Sier, Helen Lynas
Meetings held once weekly on average, however, ad-hoc training, discussion sessions etc held as required.
Bendigo Campus
Beth Flack (Coordinator)
Angela Dudley, Ange Johns-Hayden, Loris Ferguson, Kerrie Tresize
Albury-Wodonga Campus
Helen Bartlett (Coordinator)
Linda Sheridan
Shepparton Campus
Donna Wileman (Coordinator)
Iris Ambrose
Mildura Campus
Maureen Speed (Coordinator)
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5. Back-ground pre Implementation of Talis Software cont
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Negotiation with Talis in the UK to receive full administration software
functionality to conduct a trial.
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Talis agreed
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Talis team created new Google accounts to begin further familiarization of
software.
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6. Talis Trial
July to November 2013
Talis team invited 22 academic staff to participate in the trial by preparing their reading lists in Talis
Aspire (range of courses and materials).
6 staff agreed to take part - some of the reasons other staff could not attend were “too busy” “haven’t
got enough time.”
The trial ran from July to November 2013
Pamphlets outlining the functionality and benefits of Talis Aspire were distributed to staff attending the
demonstrations for distribution and promotion to other academic staff within their Faculty
Survey was installed on the list level page of Talis for students to complete – due to
the time of year take-up of the survey was limited to students from on subject.
Majority responded that the were “happy” with Reading Lists access
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7. Progress
Talis Software was purchased November 2013
Originally, during 2014 the Library intended to run 2 concurrent Reserve systems (Millennium reserve
module and Talis) until all Reserve lists were created using Reading Lists @ La Trobe (Talis Aspire)
by 1st Semester 2015.
Readinglists@ La Trobe introduction demonstration sessions for academic and
teaching staff with a total of 320 emails sent to staff inviting them to attend
demonstrations/ training sessions.
2013 (November and December)
Melbourne Talis Team scheduled 12 demonstrations of Reading Lists @ La Trobe - there was limited
uptake.
2014
Scheduled 12 sessions per month – January to March – during the month of January –limited uptake.
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8. Change to implementation
Due to poor response by academic staff to attend training, the library decided to change the approach to
implementing Reading Lists @ La Trobe. Library staff will now create reserve lists (shell) in the
Talis software as follows:
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All 2014 lists – those that already have a millennium record (approximately 400 lists) and those that
are requested ongoing.
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Only the requested “updated” 2013 Reserve lists via the “Update your reserve lists” form - this
online form will remain on the library web page with an appropriate note informing staff of
“ReadingLists @ Latrobe”. (approximately 900 lists)
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Remaining 2013 lists will only be added to Talis once requested for update
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All 2013 lists (and 2014 that were originally added to millennium) will be suppressed from public
view via the catalogue.
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Arrange to have “Reading Lists @ La Trobe” direct login on the library web page which will be
another way that students may login into their lists by entering their course code – this will take
them directly to their subject list in Talis.
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9. Publicity and Communication – Reading Lists @ La Trobe
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Library Link
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University News
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Library home page – “News”
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All staff email
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Reading Lists @ La Trobe Information Guide
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Quick Starter Guide for Academic and Teaching staff – available via the
Library Web page
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Academic and Teaching staff manual – “Online reading list guide for
academic staff”
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10. Administrative actions
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Investigate and research new online reading list, research and report findings
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Compile academic and library staff training manuals I(in consultation with the
Melbourne Talis team members).
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Prepare and present Talis Trial report with Lea Beranek
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Schedule demonstrations for academic and teaching staff
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Schedule training for Library staff including cross campus
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Webinars - run, and attend, a series of sessions online and events you can attend
giving you the opportunity to network and discuss reading-list and digitisation
management, learning, and technology issues. Registration is required. These are
available via the Talis Unite site or via Talis webpage see
http://campus.talisaspire.com/events-list/
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11. Academic and teaching staff demonstrations
Academic manual and the quick starter guide can be accessed via Library's
homepage under Teaching services see
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/library/teaching-services
Demonstrations scheduled from November 2013 and will continue throughout
2014
Frequency - 3 sessions per week, alternating days and times for approximately
1 hour
Academic and teaching staff in various schools (13) Health Sciences as well as
Faculty of Law Business Economics and Law were invited to join the
demonstrations
List creator Invitations and instructions to install bookmarklet tool sent to
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academics and teaching staff who had agreed to join one of the
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12. Academic staff response included
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Like the and drop interface to build reading lists more efficiently
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Supports End Note.
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Lists quickly compiled
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Facility to change the view of items into preferred referencing style (currently
limited)
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Once list cross campus for a variety of material type
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This list serves as your reading list.
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Flexible list creation functionality,
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One list cross campus.
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13. Questions
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14. Thank you
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