1. Video Delivery Partner

2. Achieving Acquisitions
Efficiency with Talis Aspire
Laura Unwin, Rachel Schulkins & Mia O’Hara

3. Objectives for the session
• Demo of reviews 2.0 and how this can help to improve your
acquisitions efficiency
• University of Liverpool and King’s College London sharing their
experience
• Update on where next for reviews 2.0
• Questions

4. Key questions you ask when ordering items from a
reading list
• How many students are on the course?
• What stock do we already have in the library?
• Are there new editions available for these items?
• Are they available as eBooks?
• How many copies do we need to order?
• Is this book needed elsewhere?

5. Demo

6. University of Liverpool

7. Acquisitions and Talis Reviews 2.0
Dr Rachel Schulkins
Principal Library Assistant
Acquisitions, University of Liverpool
rachelb@liverpool.ac.uk

8. Reviews 2.0: what changed?
Reviewing Screen
Determining Book ratio per Student
New Editions
Comment History
Alerts

9. Reviewing Screen
before ….

11. Reviewing Screen
after….

13. Determining Book ratio per Student
before…

14. Determining Book ratio per Student
after…

15. New Edition Alerts

16. Comments History
Comments made on a particular list
Comments made across all Reading Lists

17. Alerts

18. Summary
More work, less time
Efficiency
Access to immediate information
Enables quick and informed Decisions

19. Summary
More target spending on popular titles
Foreseeing student demand
More proactive, less reactive
Expanding and updating Library holdings

20. Thank you

22. King’s College London

24. Or: How I Learned to Stop
Worrying and Love Reviews

25. I’m going to go
over:
• 4 main
benefits
• 2 things we
wish it did
• Summary

26. Cutting out ‘double checks’ on the catalogue

27. Gives us a holistic picture of student needs

28. Flags up new Editions

29. Helps us link in online resources

30. Processing times can cause delays

31. Difficult to get a quick overview of the list

32. We wouldn’t go back if you paid us

33. Questions?

34. Video Delivery Partner