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55minPrioritize reading list
application requirements
David
  • Easy way for faculty to add (or request) resources to be added
  • Existing models
    • Primo is a good starting point (export to LMS)
    • Leganto is probably a better model
    • Alma's reading list is kind of clunky
  • Workflow

    • Start from the the reading list
    • Start from Primo, service menu includes link to add item to list
      • Can be restricted to faculty/staff

    Users

    • Multiple co-authors
    • List owner, can invite co-authors
    • Recommender role (= librarian)
    • Librarian
    • Students
    • Can comment
    • Mark progress

    Sharing

    • With people in a course
    • With anyone outside the course
    • Ability to make your list public
    • Other people can copy your list and make one for themselves
      • Ability to make your list public
      it their own
    • Integrate the same list into multiple courses 
    • Search the metadata of lists
      • Mapping of course names to some standard vocabulary
      • Grab course lists from all campuses to make this

    Finding and uploading Finding and linking to resources

    • Books, articles through a search (= Primo)
    • Entering a resource manually (= form)
        Including websites
        • Free things on the web
        • Items the instructor has digitized and uploaded into the LMS or some other place
        • Highlight cases where user has entered non-persistent library database URLs
      • Databases (= specialized Primo/Alma search)
      • History of what has been added
        • Picking individual resources that have previously been added to other courses
      • Recommendations
      • Based on previous things you've added
      • Items from otherreading lists
        • Librarian provide recommendations
      • Digitized instructor-owned material
        • Asset could be stored by the application or in a repository?
        • Link or text in Blackboard/Moodle?
        • We don't have it? Request to purchase it
        • Copyright management (something we can check?)
          • Check Alma digitization request for example of the type of data we would need here
            • Find physical item
            • Creates work order
            • Check copyright
        • (for now)
      • Physical items
        • Creates a request to put the book on reserves
      • Links, how to handle them
        • To OpenURL
        • If we don't own it, request the item
        • If it's physical, put it on reserve

      Management and organization

      • Organize by type
      • Organize by week or part of the course
      • Make available only a limited time or for specific people
      • Moodle, Blackboard, Canvas has something like this
      • Add comments/descriptions to the reading list and for the items
      • Text, links, etc.

      Usage / reporting

      • How many people viewed the item
      • Time spent on an item
      • Sense of who used the item (unique users)
      • Customized reports based on the dataAggregated data across all courses, by major, etc.
      • Export reports in CSV
      • Better idea of what to track here once we know what is possible
      • Accessing things we own versus things we don't
      • Is this external versus internal
      • Stats for non-instructor, librarians

      Book store / AL$ type projects

      • Get a list of ISBNs from book store and compare that to library's e-book collection to show already owned books.
      • Maybe push those to the LMS in some way

    Action items

    David Walker will send out brainstorm list to group to begin shaping it into phases or requirements 14 Jul reformulate list in more formal requirements document