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Reading Lists

Reading Lists. Or to take ARMS against a sea of Academics. Andra Bloomfield University of Wales Aberystwyth. What’s so important?. Locations Voyager (Aberystwyth OPAC) Modules (AStRA) Sentient Discover Blackboard Academics own lists Destinations Library Students Academics

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Reading Lists

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  1. Reading Lists Or to take ARMS against a sea of Academics Andra Bloomfield University of Wales Aberystwyth

  2. What’s so important? • Locations • Voyager (Aberystwyth OPAC) • Modules (AStRA) • Sentient Discover • Blackboard • Academics own lists • Destinations • Library • Students • Academics • Module web pages • Bookshops

  3. What’s so important? • Locations • Voyager • Modules (AStRA) • Sentient Discover • Blackboard • Academics own lists • Destinations • Library • Students • Academics • Module web pages • Bookshops

  4. Pre 1999 Academics doing their own thing June 1999 Module Reading lists developed for AStRA Academics still doing their own thing March 2003 Signed up with Sentient Discover Academics still doing their own thing March 2004 Group formed to look into Reading Lists June 2004 Decided to go ahead with in-house system October 2004 ARMS went live January 2005 ARMS V2 released September 2005 ARMS V3 due for release The Future Academics still doing their own thing? A Brief History (AStRA – Aberystwyth Student Records and Admissions system)

  5. What is this ARMS?

  6. What is this ARMS?

  7. What is this ARMS? • Each Module has one or more reading lists • Each Academic can have one or more reading lists • Main reading lists available to all • All other reading lists assigned private or public status • Private to owner • Private to students taking that module

  8. What is this ARMS? • Items can be added to a list • Manually • Searched for • Voyager OPAC • National Library of Wales OPAC • Global Books in Print • Items on a list can be • Ordered for the library • Have their loan status changed

  9. What is this ARMS?

  10. What is this ARMS? • Items can be added to a list • Manually • Searched for • Voyager OPAC • National Library of Wales OPAC • Global Books in Print • Items on a list can be • Ordered for the library • Have their loan status changed

  11. What is this ARMS?

  12. What is this ARMS? • PHP • V 4.3.10 • Yaz(a Z39.50 development tool) • V 1.21 • Oracle • V 8i • Sun Sparc V240 • Solaris 9

  13. Usage • Over the past 9 months, of the 2485 Module Reading lists within ARMS • 99% have been accessed at least once • Over 50% have been accessed 13 times or more

  14. Won’t Use Doesn’t do everything Too complicated Too much work My Students won’t use it Spoon feeding! Why should I? The departmental secretary does it Will Use Easy to use Good access for: Students Library Bookshop Nice to be able to search for things Lets me maintain my own list Feedback

  15. What Next? • Bi-lingual • Copying items between lists • Reporting features • Auto notification to academics for lists not updated • Upload pre-prepared lists

  16. ARMS Andra Bloomfield Management Information Services University of Wales – Aberystwyth adb@aber.ac.uk http://arms.mis.aber.ac.uk

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