2. The University of Derby
www.derby.ac.uk
A teaching-orientated university where the
quality of teaching really matters
National Student Survey Results 2012:
•overall satisfaction = 83%,
•courses where overall satisfaction with the
course is 100% – History and Applied Social
Work.
•Many courses achieved over 90%
satisfaction, including Law and Education.
Origins back to 1851
A long history of teaching art and design,
education, health, technology and
photography
In 1992, the only UK higher education college
to become a university
6. www.derby.ac.uk
Reading Lists Team
1628 (70%)
Online Reading Lists
linked to
Course Resources
Academics
Subject
Librarians
The Library
Working Group.
Copyright Unit. Loans Team
9. www.derby.ac.uk
Time for a change
A reading list can be more
than just a sheet of paper
It should be an inter-active
multi-layered evolving method
of information gathering
With the development of
Aspire support for Talislist
would eventually cease
Heard Talis was developing a
new product
We had decide whether to
change or stop developing
reading lists
We felt there was room for
improvement
Talislist was cumbersome and
not always intuitive
Lists had to completed by
library staff and therefore
excluded academics
10. www.derby.ac.uk
Why pick Aspire?
We anticipate
significant benefits to
academics, students
and increasingly
time-poor library staff
We wanted a system
that was much easier
for students to use
and could be
accessed 24/7 via our
VLE
We knew some
reading lists existed
that academics had not
shared with the Library,
resulting in insufficient
stock
We knew that having
a higher proportion of
books on reading lists
available in the
Library would improving
the student experience
11. www.derby.ac.uk
Benefits
University
•Enhance the student
learning experience
•Promote teaching
excellence and
engagement (NSS)
•Better management
of Library resources
Students
•Easy navigation
between course
content, VLE and
library catalogue
•Available on PCs,
Tablets and
Smartphones
•Ability to personalise
study notes
Academics
•Make the creation and
management of reading
lists easier
•Take control of their
own teaching
resources and share
their knowledge
•Harvest items for
future use and own
studies
12. The Plan
www.derby.ac.uk
Pilot areas
Academics to populate their own lists
Demonstrate, train and support as required
Reading Lists Team created
Talislists (‘Legacy Lists’)
Roadmap of training and rollout
Development of the product
13. Academic Year 2009-2010
www.derby.ac.uk
Single login preferred
Couldn’t write manuals without the product
No ‘Broadminster’ to practice in
Talislists continued - by 2009 = 179
Changes in Reading Lists Team
16. www.derby.ac.uk
Academic Year 2010-2011
Generic login version available
Legacy lists migrated from Talislist to Aspire
Started to demonstrate to Subject Librarians
Visited Nottingham Trent University
17. Summer 2011
www.derby.ac.uk
6th
July – Tenancy
7th
July – First presentation
Started to write guides and training material
First list created by an academic
Rollout
Creative Commons Licence
Permissions
Time periods
18. Academic Year 2011-2012
www.derby.ac.uk
Link Aspire lists to Course Resources
Looked at the Review process
Began to train academic staff in their offices
September – all modules require an online reading list
Reading Lists Team – longer hours / extra staff
19. Academic Year 2011-2012
www.derby.ac.uk
December - move from 15- to 20-credits
Continued training academic and Library staff
Held bi-weekly drop-in sessions
Re-assessed permissions for academics
Added a temp to the Reading Lists Team
20. www.derby.ac.uk
First birthday – July 2012
246 linked to Course Resources
1000 lists in Aspire
(including new 20 credit lists awaiting codes)
Hosted the 2012 Talis Aspire User Group Meeting
Workshop at the University conference
To rollover or not to rollover?
21. www.derby.ac.uk
Academic Year 2012-2013
More controlled and ordered
Better understanding of Aspire, Blackboard and users
Opportunity to start to clear out lists and modules
July - there were 1406 lists linked from Aspire to Course
Resources
Continuing training and updating manuals
Monthly statistics (Google Analytics)
26. www.derby.ac.uk
Academic Year 2013-2014
October - surpassed the total amount of lists linked in
the whole of the previous academic year
Created a master list to work from
Includes what has and hasn’t been granulised so able
to pare down and tidy up Aspire
Advised University of Derby Online Learning (UDOL)
and included their lists
Chasing Subject Librarians and Academics for
information
27. www.derby.ac.uk
Academic Year 2014 onwards
Continue to chase ‘missing’ lists
Increase academic engagement
Digital manual
Much more optimistic about the rollover this summer
29. www.derby.ac.uk
Reasons to be cheerful
Aspire is much easier for
students to use and can be
accessed from anywhere, by
different media, and linked to
modules in Course Resources
With more lists being available it
is easier to identify the same
books on different lists so the
monitoring of demand and
purchase of multiple copies
becomes easier
Improvements to student
experience have been the most
beneficial
This has increased our NSS
satisfaction scores
Improved information for book
purchasing giving a higher
proportion of books on reading
lists available in the library,
therefore improving student
experience
30. Strategy for engagement
www.derby.ac.uk
Drop-in sessions
Campus visits
University conferences
Manuals / Digital manual
Intranet pages / LibGuides
Emails and signatures
One-to-ones
Small groups
Team development events
Subject Librarians
32. Top three things that would help others
www.derby.ac.uk
Know exactly the size of the project
Structure accordingly
Recognise that it takes time for things to run smoothly
Stick to your plan
Realistic workloads
