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Enhancing life-long learning, teaching and research through information resources and services

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Ian Rogers, Liaison Librarian

Driving Academic Adoption at NTU

Email of 19th October 2012 reporting 100% take up of Aspire use at NTU

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RLMS Stats as of 11am Friday 19th October 2012 17 new Learning Rooms were added to the statistics this week from the Change Reports School List not

needed Populated Unpopulated %

A&D 446 158 0 100 AAH 905 303 0 100 ArchDBE 397 260 0 100 ARES 311 252 0 100 EDU 775 158 0 100 Graduate School

62 7 0 100

NBS 1135 316 0 100 NLS 416 131 0 100 SOC 561 323 0 100 SST 746 408 0 100 Others 32 1 0 100 Total 5786 2317 0 100

Accompanying Chart

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Brief Background

• NTU using Aspire since Summer 2010

• Tied in tightly with VLE Structure and Acquisitions processes

• Rolled out by Academic Liaison Team of 10 Liaison Librarians

• Target of 2000+ Aspire Lists to be created by the Academic Staff

• Some old-style reading lists copied to Aspire

• Full scale roll out – no pilots

• Widget linking to Aspire list prominently displayed in all modules of study on the VLE

An NTU VLE “Learning Room”

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Methods of Engagement

• Demonstrations of the system to strategically important groups

• University-wide emails

• Bespoke training sessions for Schools

• General training sessions

• Offers of one-to-one training at the lecturer’s desk

• Reports on progress of School/Programme at Programme and School level committees

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Selling the system: Pros

• GENERAL

• Advantages of the system for the students

• Accuracy of the lists produced by bookmarking

• NTU SPECIFIC:

• Sufficient books will be bought for Library

• Articles and Chapters will be digitised

• Links will be checked and made robust

• Senior University Management support

• The shame of having an empty widget?

• Student focus groups

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Selling the system: Cons

• Some academics struggled with the software

• Some academics struggled with the concept of the toolbar button (or sometimes their computers did)

• Lack of time to devote to the process

• Happy with reading list in a different format

• Inability to replicate specific referencing systems

• Some lecturers not happy about open access to lists from outside the University

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Bookmarking from Primo

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100% Target

• After two years, take up plateaued at c. 70% of modules

• University demanded 100% take up by October 2012

• Library responsible for achieving 100% Target

• “Non-populaters” allowed to email or post their old-style reading lists to Library to be converted into Aspire

• Possibility of empty lists having to be filled by raiding VLE for indicative reading lists, which would then be converted to Aspire Lists

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Result

• 100% achieved by October 19th 2012

• However, statistics have to be collected on an on-going basis to continue to prove 100% take up

• New modules appearing each week on VLE = new empty Aspire Lists = less than 100% take up!

• More granular statistics required on modules labelled as “Resource Lists not Required”

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Quality of Lists

• Some lists of questionable quality

• How is “List Quality” measured – very different opinions

• Currency, Length, Onlineness, Grouping, Ease of Obtaining Materials, Annotation (by staff and students), etc.

• A high quality list is one that is “used and useful”

• Dashboard helps us to see usage

• More student focus groups

• Any other suggestions?

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Why this is important to us?

• Increasingly Talis Aspire lists shape the collection

• Less emphasis on collection building by subject librarians

• Less emphasis on Patron Driven Acquisition?

• High quality lists = high quality collection = satisfied students(or am I just saying that…)

• A list that satisfies the student = a high quality list

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