academic engagement - carole rhodes university of liverpool
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University of Liverpool
� Reading Lists @ Liverpool Iaunched in Sept 2013
� 1,700 lists at the outset
� Mostly imported from our previous ‘system’: catalogue records with a reading list field added
A pre-populated system
� Current recommendations were solicited by email from module coordinators
� Lists were created/edited by Library Acquisitions staff
� Much easier to engage academics if some of the work has been done for them
Why engage the academics? � Library staffing capacity
� Ownership
� Immediacy
� Student experience
Ethos � Culture change
� Ownership passing from the library to the academics
� Removing barriers
� Giving the academics the power – by making them List Publishers
How to engage the academics?
� Success project
� Liaison Librarians
� Meetings
� Mandate?
� Web presence
� Training
� Persuasion by their peers …
Success project
� July 2013 – July 2014
� Academic Liaison taking the lead
� One Page Project Plan
� Tasks mapped against a timeline
One Page Project Plan
The original OPPM is Copyright OC Tanner 2008.
One-Page Project Plan was adapted by David Sommer Consulting for the Practical Project Management Workshop. http://www.DavidSommerConsulting.com
Objec&ves:
Champions have been iden&fied
Support and training has been established
Marke&ng has been delivered
Student feedback has been obtained
Project Name:
Reading Lists @ Liverpool Success
Project Goal:
Staff and students are using Reading Lists @ Liverpool by July 2014
Comple&on Date: 30-‐Jul-‐14
Project Leader:
Clair Sharpe
Updated on:
09-‐Jun-‐14
Tasks 1. Senior University staff have been engaged and policies agreed 2. The Guild have been engaged 3. Early adopters have been offered VIP support by Library 4. Academics have been engaged as reading lists published 5. Liaison Librarians have disseminated info at relevent meetings 6. All library staff have been updated 7. Train the trainer training has been arranged 8. A mixed programme of training has been devised 9. A checklist for trainers pre & post session has been prepared 10. Reading List LibGuide & LibAnswers have been updated 11. Drop in training sessions have been added to calendar 12. Short demo video clips have been added to the LibGuide 13. Training for Guild student reps has been delivered
14. Resources for Courses has been launched 15. High visibility of Reading Lists on Homepage has been secured 16. High visibility of Reading Lists on catalogue has been secured 17. High visibility of Reading Lists on DISCOVER has been secured 18. High visibility via VITAL (Building Block) has been incorporated 19. Marketing has been aligned to the Library branding exercise 20. Digital signage inside libraries has been used 21. Digital signage elsewhere in the University has been used 22. A "talking head" style video clip of an academic has been made 23. A focus group of users has been indentifed 24. Feedback from academics has been gathered 25. The use of module/programme evaluation has been explored
A We think academics will get on board B We think we will manage user expectations C We think Reading Lists @ Liverpool will fit the rest of the University
Liaison Librarians
� Main channel of communication between the library and staff/students in academic departments.
� Other library staff, (e.g. on the desk) need to be up to speed to a certain extent, but can refer.
Meetings (various!)
� Student Experience Committees
� Staff-Student Liaison Committees
� Blackboard Baseline Group
� Guild (Students’ Union)
� University Learning & Teaching Conference
What should a reading list be?
� Just ‘library’ materials: books/journals?
� Encourage the debate
� If the academic owns the list, it’s up to him or her …
To mandate or not to mandate …
� We decided not (for the moment at least)
� Depends on your institution
Web presence
� Reading Lists LibGuide used as homepage – for news, training materials etc.
� Ubiquitous links to reading lists
Integration, integration, integration
VLE: Blackboard (known as VITAL)
Library Web pages
Library catalogue
Discovery service: EDS (known as Discover)
LibGuides
Programme Planner
Work is ongoing to make reading lists part of university systems and processes.
Training
� Module coordinators were invited to lunchtime training sessions. Staff signed up in advance via LibCal.
� A total of 6 workshops ran in December and February.
� 47 academic staff attended in total.
� 3 Liaison Librarians were in attendance each time.
� Training academic staff is nothing like training students!
I went to the workshop on the Library’s excellent Reading Lists @ Liverpool enterprise, a scheme that allows you to construct a reading list via the library site (but which is not limited to the library holdings and allows links to external resources to be added in one place, even letting media clips be inserted) which you can then link to your module VITAL site and by which students can access the catalogue, the resources and their availability as relevant, directly. It’s very impressive and, crucially, easy to use. I’d encourage you all to think about using it and if you need any help getting started I’ll do my best to assist.
Dr Rebecca Dixon
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
Students seemed to react well to it: it’s visually more attractive than other available forms of listing we have used (e.g. within VITAL itself) and directly brings up much more relevant information (such as library stocks).
So I would say that student response has been positive so far, though I can’t say that I asked them specifically about this function — it was just there in the background.
Prof Mark Collier
School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology
Varied perspectives, different challenges
� Different subject areas have different priorities for their lists – Humanities and Social Sciences have longer lists and may need more support from the library.
� We need to figure out who is and who isn’t engaging and why.
� Liaison Librarians are the key, thanks to their knowledge of departments.
Advocates
� Our early adopters have been invaluable as advocates
� Academics are best placed to persuade their peers
“At first I didn’t see the point of this system. Now I wish we’d got it years ago. I wouldn’t want to be without it.”
Dr Laszlo Pazmany School of Medicine
Author of our most popular lists: PBL modules for Medical students. Module 2.13 had 3,139 page views in May 2014.
Persuasion by their peers …
� A short video, professionally filmed
� Featuring an academic from each of the three Faculties
� Footage of the library and relevant screenshots are shown while the academics describe the advantages of the system
� http://libguides.liv.ac.uk/readinglists