2016-08-17 Meeting notes

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)

Sharing

• Ability to make your list public
• Other people can copy your list and make it their own
• Integrate the same list into multiple courses

Finding and linking to resources

• Books, articles through a search (= Primo)
• Entering a resource manually (= form)
  • 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
• • Librarian provide recommendations (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
• Add comments/descriptions to the reading list and for the items

Usage / reporting

• How many people viewed the item
• Time spent on an item
• Sense of who used the item (unique users)
• Export reports in CSV
• Is this external versus internal
• Stats for non-instructor, librarians