2. Why do we want to trial this tool?
Zara and I went to an information session about 18 months ago at Monash and we
really liked some of the features it displayed and thought it would be useful
When the LIVE agenda was developed, Talis Aspire showed that it could be a very
useful tool in this space. It is a cloud based resource management tool that Liaison
Librarians could use to help academics develop resource lists for their course
enhancements
Once developed the lists are easily manipulated and can be organised any way the
academics would like.
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3. Reasons To trial Talis Aspire
LiVE agenda and Course enhancements (Learning, Ideas, Value, Experience)
Liaison Librarians have improved communication with unit chairs and can offer valuable course
enhancement services easily and quickly by monitoring unit resource lists
Liaison Librarians can source useful course materials and easily and quickly drag and drops
links into unit specific lists for preview by unit chairs.
Unit chairs and liaison librarians save time and effort: Items saved as bookmarks can be used
on multiple lists. Lists are simple to update.
The unit chair or liaison librarian can import lists from citation managers or from the catalogue
Teaching and learning experience is enhanced: Resource list creation provides opportunities
for engagement with students. Unit chairs are able to create dynamic lists and annotate items
for students.
It covers everything – video, audio, image, website, podcast – from anywhere with a link.
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4. Reasons To trial Talis Aspire
Resource List structure is flexible. Unit chairs can structure lists in whatever way best suits the course
content. For example lists can be organised by semester, week, and topic or resource type.
Unit chairs can assign priority to items on a list (Prescribed, Recommended or Further reading) and can add
notes for students. Students can quickly see which items are essential reading
Key resources become more accessible to students: Linking directly to key resources students spend more
time reading items on their lists than searching for them.
Unit chairs are able to gather valuable data on resource list use: An analytics dashboard shows the number
of visits to a list and how many times students have clicked on links to resources. Monitor which items on
the list are under used and which are used most often.
Talis Aspire integrates with D2L to create comprehensive reading lists.
Talis Aspire integrates with Millennium to identify any resources requiring acquisition and show real time
availability.
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5. Issues for Deakin
ERM, Encore and EDS – getting the required data to bookmark correctly to suit
Deakin
Equella Deakin uses Equella for our digitisation and copyright compliance.
Integrating Equella and Talis or getting them to work together is an issue.
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6. How will the trial work
We are still finalising the initial tenancy setup and ar have been testing the
bookmarking tools and tweeking these to enable the best possible outcomes
for everyone
We will be working with liaison librarians, the Ereadings team and Faculty staff
to trail the system
Depending on the results of these initial units, we will widen the scope
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7. What are the implications for
e-readings and the library?
If Talis Aspire works as well as we hope, we would like to implement it for all
Faculties
The E-readings team will still manage the digitised material and possibly use
Talis Aspire to manage the rest of the resource links
Talis Aspire also have a Digital Content Management module, which could
replace Equella. It has been developed for Australian copyright law and
hopefully we will be able to trial this system as well soon.
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8. USER GROUP ISSUES
Student numbers and different campuses
Australian databases eg Informit
Australian bookshops
Exproxy
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