Ian Snowley (Library Director, Lincoln University) - An exiting discussion on how Talis Aspire Digitised Content aligned to Lincoln's strategic drivers to tackle real problems for librarians, academics and students alike.

1. Course digitisations at Lincoln: Solving real
problems with Talis Aspire Digitised Content
Ian Snowley
University Librarian

2. Overview
• Background
– University of Lincoln
– Library Strategy
– Digitisation – issues
• TADC
– Why
– How
– Immediate Benefits
• Future Development
• Questions

3. University of Lincoln
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Some Numbers
Growth - International and Research
Ambitious
Focus on Student Experience and
Engagement (Student as Producer)

4. Library Strategy
• Focus on Learning Development;
Research Support and Improving student
experience
• IT Strategy 2012 – Discovery, Aspire,
Update to LMS (Horizon)
• Aspire reading Lists – steady increase in
take-up, centrally managed approach
• Future plans – implement Library Services
Platform (14/15)

5. Digitisation Issues
• Necessary to meet academic needs (and
keep within budgets)
• Very time intensive (esp. record keeping)
• Uncontrolled
• High risk [CLA compliance]!

6. Why TADC
• Complete solution – link to CLA & Talis Aspire
• Cost-effective
– We calculated staff costs of c£23k pa for existing
approach
– Meaning TADC results in a net saving year on year
– Even without storage costs etc
• Opportunity to implement before academic year
(13/14)
• Cloud based meaning easier/quicker
implementation

7. How TADC
• Opportunity to bid for extra funds
– Not successful!
– But so important we re-purposed part of existing
budget
• Implemented Summer ‘13
• Good support from Talis
• Had hoped to ‘convert’ previous digitisations
– But not possible in time
– Electronic Library Services team stepped in to convert
c1,200 items (c700 done/c500 ongoing)

8. Immediate Benefits
• Supports development of Reading Lists
= better reading lists
• CLA spreadsheet being compiled in real-time
(checkable = audit trail)
• Compliance & Control – only source for
digitisations
• Real-time checking of exclusions etc
• Time saved (ss/better workflow/simpler process)
• Analytics – views/downloads/prints

9. Future Development
• Currently Academic staff don’t access
TADC – because we’re using Aspire as
the ‘front end’
• So need to open up TADC to academic
staff to unlock full work-flow benefits
• Further work to enhance reporting
• Increase take-up of Aspire Reading Lists

10. Questions?