2016-08-17 Meeting notes

• 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
  • Other people can copy your list and make one for themselves
    
    • Ability to make your list public
      
  • 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 resources

• Books, articles through a search (= Primo)
• Entering a resource manually (= form)
  • Including websites
  • Highlight cases where user has entered non-persistent library database URLs
• Databases (= 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
• Physical items
  • Creates a request to put the book on reserves
• Links
  • 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 data
  • Aggregated 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