3. Background
§ Over 1,200 online reading lists for over 10 years.
– Rationale
§ Microsoft Frontpage
– Manual processes from coding HTML to constructing the citations
and building the links
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5. Why Talis?
§ Service Review 2006-2008
– Aimed to create efficiencies in the service
– Identify systems/software to underpin the workflow
§ Key reasons
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track record to explore and embrace new technology
developments
– commitment to involve clients (libraries, students and academics)
in the development of products
– customer base
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6. Progress
2011
§ Creation of lists from scratch
– Staff training
– Project to copy links from FrontPage to Aspire
§ Partial implementation (Semester 2 lists only)
– Concurrent systems to cope with “all of year” lists
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7. Progress (2)
2012
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All lists in Aspire
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Preliminary discussions with academic staff but Alma project took
priority
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More widespread use by staff of Talis Ideas Forum and e-list to
exchange information
2013
§ Steady state maintenance (Monash not Talis)
§ Migration to Alma
– LCN migration
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8. Improvements
§ Bookmarks
– Searching
– Editing metadata
§ Bibliography
§ Direct link to e-books within a list
– option to create the link or not using a button
– saves a step in reaching the resource
§ Statistics
– Dashboard
– CAL
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9. A look at Aspire
§ Demonstration of a list
§ Resource types
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Digitisation
Electronic journal link
Book
Webpage
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10. Editing the List
In Edit mode you are able to
§ Drag bookmarks to desired places on the list
§ Add notes for Students or Staff
§ Add/Remove bookmarks
§ Create ‘Sections’
§ Edit Metadata
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11. Student View
When a student clicks on a link they will have a number of options for
viewing the selected item:
§ Viewing the full title, author, publisher, etc.
§ Checking for a digitization
§ Viewing the item in the library catalogue
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12. Aspire Pros and Cons
Pros
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Don’t have to master html code as in
FrontPage
Ability to bookmark any webpage
Can have multiple tabs open to retrieve
previously created bookmarks
Easy to Publish a list and make copies
Dashboard provides good overview of
usage
Ability to create headings and sections
easily
Cons
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Inability to apply referencing style
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Not all items bookmark correctly-requiring
you to manually add metadata
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A lot of ‘layers’ to get to metadata or
direct item links
Ongoing Talis support including an ideas
forum
Clean and simple interface
Copyright control
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13. The Future
§ Integration of Aspire into Moodle
– The implementation of the new library management system,
Alma, in 2012/13 has delayed the delegation to permit academics
to edit their own lists. This is planned for trial in Semester 1, 2014
• It is hoped that this will deliver further efficiencies and an
even better service into the future
§ Separate bibliographic records for each list being reviewed
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14. More information
Moodle integration at the University of Sussex, UK.
• http://vimeo.com/61188252
Email addresses:
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Ian.McGregor@monash.edu
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Rod.Rizzi@monash.edu
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