Academic adoption involving Talis

Academic Adoption #talisinsight

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Talis supporting your academic adoption

Elements for success

• Know your product

• Promotion and communication

• Library and academic roll out

• Support materials

Benefits

Why did you purchased Talis?• Needed an effective reading list system

• Wanted to automate the reading list process

• Wanted to improve library collection development activities

Benefits for students• Up-to-date reading lists

• Access full-text directly from the list

• Lists are highly discoverable

• Rich guidance and structure => more effective learning

• Meet expectations

• Increase satisfaction

Benefits for Academics• Easily update and manage reading lists

• Saving time, reducing effort

• Organise and annotate to suit your unit structure

• Ensure teaching resources will be available • Drive collection development activities • Transfer items between campuses/collections with a

single click

• Integrate lists into your unit’s LMS site

Other Benefits

• Reduce repetitive effort

• Less typing and clicks!

• Reuse bookmarks across lists

• Integrate into your Module Validation systems

• Show indicative reading lists on prospectus site

• At the unit level - feedback for academics

• At the university level - Student satisfaction scores (UK - NSS, Aus - SETU)

• Deliver richer experiences

• Digitised Content working along-side Reading Lists

• Meet expectations of fee paying students

Benefits for your University

• What are your top 3?

Plan your rollout

Objectives

• What is success?

• Where do you aim to be in 6 months time?

• Where do you hope to be in 12 months time?

University promotion

Have a communication strategy

• Identify your key stakeholders

• How will you reach out to them?

• When will you reach out to them?

• What collateral/resources will you need?

Support resources

Examples• http://resourcelists.ed.ac.uk/schools/s24.html

• http://www.liv.ac.uk/library/

• http://www.port.ac.uk/library/infores/readinglist/

• http://library.anglia.ac.uk/academic/readinglist.html

• http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/library/finding/readinglists.aspx

Your support resources

• What support material

• Maintenance

• Plans for review

What was your plan?

Types of sessions

Different types of sessions

• 1-2-1 training

• Group training - any academic, any department

• Departmental training

• Drop in sessions - either in library or departments

1-2-1 trainingAdvantages

• Can ensure academic fully understands system

• Personal touch

• Focus academics

Challenges

• More time intensive

• Bigger commitment from librarians

Group training - any academic, any department

Advantages

• Wider reach across departments

• Smaller number of librarians needed

Challenges

• Different academics bookmarking different kinds of material

• Varied levels of support needed by each academic attending

Departmental trainingAdvantages

• Can ensure full attendance

• Focus session on departments resources

Challenges

• Getting everyone in a department in one place at one time

• May need more than one librarian to lead the session

Drop-in sessionsAdvantages

• Wide coverage

• Personal touch

Challenges

• No guarantee anyone will “drop-in”

• Finding a “good time” to run them

What happened at your university?

Demo’ing to academics

Building a consistent demo

• Know the benefits you want to highlight

• Know your demo

• Have a plan

• Have confidence your in your bookmarklet

Building a consistent demoSTUDENT VIEW

1. Start on Home Page

2. Search for list / mention access from LMS

3. Talk through list view - course code, module leader name, semester, table of contents

4. Talk about structure of lists - lecture, weeks, topic, assignments, etc.

5. Show how each type of resource works 1. Book and eBook - bibliographic information, link to catalogue, link to other editions/formats, link

to bookshop, Google preview

2. Chapter - show how this is broken down in view

3. Journal article - metadata all there, link directly to article

4. Webpages, documents, audio-visual material, etc.

6. Talk about the bibliographic view and citation styles (know your departments citation styles)

Building a consistent demo

STUDENT VIEW - SIGNED IN

1. Reading intentions overview and demo

2. Notes - mention that these remain private

3. Go to your profile and show where a student would find their reading intentions and notes

Building a consistent demoACADEMIC VIEW

1. Highlight dashboard and it’s features 1. Note the student reading intentions

2. Talk about how they can interact with their students around the access stats of each item

2. Review/Publish - what the library will do when they receive a list for review (checking items, links, purchasing, digitisations)

3. Request digitisation 1. how to request a digitisation

2. what the library does with requests

What role can Talis play?

Questions?

Questions• What are your next steps?

• What actions need to be taken?

• Who is going to look at the demo?

• Who is going to create the script?

• When is your first training session?

• Who is doing the training?

• Who is doing the marketing?

• How are departments going to manage their training?

• Are you recording your progress in anyway?