Creating Reading Lists: tips and tools

1. Creating Reading Lists: tips and tools Canapés with Clio 16th April 2008 Judy Reading @ouls.ox.ac.uk

2. Good practice • Make sure what you recommend is available • Make sure the references are correct • Consider letting the students look for themselves sometimes • Let the Library know in good time

3. Interactive reading lists • Links to locations in Oxford – for books and journal articles • Using web 2.0 tools to encourage discussion around reading lists

4. Some Oxford examples • History faculty lists • HFL Library lists • Education lists • Film studies The key to linking is your url: uniform resource location

5. European cinema list in Weblearn

6. Obtain your url from OLIS • Search the OLIS web version http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ for the specific resource you want to link to. • Mark the record (or records) you want. • select Marked records • Email the records to yourself using either HTML email or Reading list format.

7. Mark the record (or records) you want and select Marked records

8. Choose from the marked records display

9. Email the marked records to yourself in either the HTML summary or Reading list formats

10. HTML Summary email PLEASE NOTE: This is an automated email from the OLIS web OPAC server at Oxford University (http://library.ox.ac.uk). Address enquiries about the OLIS web OPAC system (not about inter-library loans or individual catalogue records) to geoweb.enquiries@sers.ox.ac.uk. Falk, Joyce Duncan., Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell (Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c1987) Bann, Stephen., The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of history in nineteenth-century Britain and France / Stephen Bann. (Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.) The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions such as reserving books, can be found at http://library.ox.ac.uk/.

11. Reading list format You selected the "reading list" format, which emails you the records as a piece of HTML code suitable for inclusion on your own web page (for example as a reading list). For each item the author, title, and publication information is displayed, as well as a link to check for the item on OLIS (for example to see the current loan statuses). Below are HTML fragments for the records formatted as a list. Simply cut and paste to the source of the web page you are writing. The HTML is ready for use with CSS (style sheets) if you wish. A sample set of styles is at the bottom of this email. <!-- HTML LIST --> <ul class="checkOLISsection"> <li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10014500" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Falk, Joyce Duncan.</span>, <span class="title">Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell</span> <span class="published">(Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c1987)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10014500--> </p></li> <li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Bann, Stephen.</span>, <span class="title">The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of history in nineteenth-century Britain and France / Stephen Bann.</span> <span class="published">(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10092137--> </p></li> </ul> <p class="checkOLISinfull">The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions such as reserving books, can be found at <a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/">http://library.ox.ac.uk/</a>.</p> <!-- END OF HTML LIST --> <!-- SAMPLE CSS --> <style type="text/css"> .title {font-style:italic;} .published {font-size:smaller} p.checkOLISinfull {font-size:smaller; color:\#666; text-align:center;} .checkOLISsection p {margin-bottom:0.5em;} .checkOLISsection a {text-decoration:none;} </style> <!-- END OF SAMPLE CSS-->

12. Reading list format For hyperlinked references copy the chunk of text between <!—HTML LIST -- > and <! – END OF HTML LIST -- > You selected the "reading list" format, which emails you the records as a piece of HTML code suitable for inclusion on your own web page (for example as a reading list). For each item the author, title, and publication information is displayed, as well as a link to check for the item on OLIS (for example to see the current loan statuses). Below are HTML fragments for the records formatted as a list. Simply cut and paste to the source of the web page you are writing. The HTML is ready for use with CSS (style sheets) if you wish. A sample set of styles is at the bottom of this email. <!-- HTML LIST --> <ul class="checkOLISsection"> <li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10014500" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Falk, Joyce Duncan.</span>, <span class="title">Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell</span> <span class="published">(Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c1987)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10014500--> </p></li> <li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Bann, Stephen.</span>, <span class="title">The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of history in nineteenth-century Britain and France / Stephen Bann.</span> <span class="published">(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10092137--> </p></li> </ul> <p class="checkOLISinfull">The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions such as reserving books, can be found at <a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/">http://library.ox.ac.uk/</a>.</p> <!-- END OF HTML LIST --> <!-- SAMPLE CSS --> <style type="text/css"> .title {font-style:italic;} .published {font-size:smaller} p.checkOLISinfull {font-size:smaller; color:\#666; text-align:center;} .checkOLISsection p {margin-bottom:0.5em;} .checkOLISsection a {text-decoration:none;} </style> <!-- END OF SAMPLE CSS-->

13. Reading list format You selected the "reading list" format, which emails you the records as a piece of HTML code suitable for inclusion on your own web page (for example as a reading list). For each item the author, title, and publication information is displayed, as well as a link to check for the item on OLIS (for example to see the current loan statuses). Below are HTML fragments for the records formatted as a list. Simply cut and paste to the source of the web page you are writing. The HTML is ready for use with CSS (style sheets) if you wish. A sample set of styles is at the bottom of this email. <!-- HTML LIST --> <ul class="checkOLISsection"> <li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10014500" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Falk, Joyce Duncan.</span>, <span class="title">Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell</span> <span class="published">(Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c1987)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10014500--> </p></li> <li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Bann, Stephen.</span>, <span class="title">The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of history in nineteenth-century Britain and France / Stephen Bann.</span> <span class="published">(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10092137--> </p></li> </ul> <p class="checkOLISinfull">The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions such as reserving books, can be found at <a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/">http://library.ox.ac.uk/</a>.</p> <!-- END OF HTML LIST --> <!-- SAMPLE CSS --> <style type="text/css"> .title {font-style:italic;} .published {font-size:smaller} p.checkOLISinfull {font-size:smaller; color:\#666; text-align:center;} .checkOLISsection p {margin-bottom:0.5em;} .checkOLISsection a {text-decoration:none;} </style> <!-- END OF SAMPLE CSS--> For a permanent url to a resource on OLIS just copy the DOCID eg http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137

14. Live links can be embedded in reading lists in: • Word documents loaded on the web • Web pages • Weblearn

15. You can choose • To insert a hyperlink in a bit of text in your list eg “Locate” • each reference could be hyperlinked eg Falk, Joyce Duncan., Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell (Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c1987) The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions such as reserving books, can be found at http://library.ox.ac.uk/.

16. You can link to anything with a web address – but make sure it is a permanent one • Journal articles • Journal issues and titles • Full-text resources • Web resources • Pictures • Archives

17. Historical resources • JSTOR and many other journal providers offer stable urls (also known as durable, persistent etc). DOI (Digital Object Identifiers) are durable urls. • Historical abstracts includes a permanent url if you email references to yourself • EEBO offers a durable url from the document record

18. Alternatives … • Use EasyWriter to create a reading list in Weblearn • Refworks has a share references function Refworks • EndnoteWeb offers something similar

19. Or Web 2.0 tools like • Worldcatfrom OCLC which offers a lists function • LibraryThing allows people to create personal libraries Web 2.0 services are about collaboration, user-generated content and communication.

20. In conclusion • I hope this has been useful. Do get in touch if I can help in any way. • We are offering a WISER session on Reading lists on the 28th May. See me for further details on my stall • Judy Reading judy.reading@ouls.ox.ac.uk www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/training