Download - Driving academic adoption
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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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