This document provides an overview of an academic adoption approach for engaging academics. It discusses features for academics such as easily creating and managing reading lists, personalizing lists, ordering books, and integrating lists into the virtual learning environment. It also discusses benefits for students such as up-to-date reading lists, accessing full text resources from lists, and improved study experience. Additional benefits mentioned include reducing repetitive efforts for academics and potential improvements to student satisfaction scores.

1. Overview of Academic
Adoption Approach

2. Deakin
SCU
La Trobe

3. What are you doing to
engage Academics today?

4. Academic Adoption
• Plan
• Understand your timeframe and objectives
• Clear, consistent messages

5. For Academics
• Easily create and manage reading lists
• Personalise lists to suit your module structure
• Order books and request stock moves with one click
• Lead the selection and purchase of Library material
• Integrate lists into your VLE module
• Harvest items for your reading list while browsing the web,
including books from Amazon, blog posts, web pages, and
YouTube videos

6. Talis Aspire Digitised Content
• Request your digitisations directly from your
reading list
• Get almost instant feedback as to whether your
digitisation request is going to be

7. For Students
• Up-to-date module reading
• Click through to full text e-resources straight from
the list
• Integration into Virtual Learning Environment and
the Library catalogue
• Guidance from convenors through item annotation
• Improved study experience

8. Other Benefits
• Reduce repetitive effort
• Don’t have to do so much typing!
• Reusing bookmarks across lists
• Integrate into your Module Validation systems
• Show indicative reading lists on prospectus site

9. • Student satisfaction scores
• At the module level - feedback for academics
• At the university level - NSS in the UK
• Deliver richer experiences
• Digitised Content
• Meet student expectations

10. University of
Edinburgh

11. Plymouth University

12. Dashboard 2.0

13. Training: Train the
Trainer

14. Questions