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Planning!for!Success!and!the!Future:
!!!Why!Talis!Aspire!is!on!our!roadmap
Dave!Puplett!–!Head!of!Academic
Liaison

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The!University!of!Kent!is:
• a!leading!UK!university
• making!a!strong!international!impact
• offering!an!inspiring!student!experience
that!prepares!students!for!the!future
• producing!innovative!world<leading
research
• enabling!and!valuing!innovation,
enterprise!and!creativity
• while!operating!in!an!effective,!efficient,
sustainable!and!professional!manner
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University!of!Kent
• International!focus,!multi6
campus!institution:
• New!campus!at!Athens,!with!Berlin!and!Rome!in!planning
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4. !
3!Faculties!
18!Schools!
3!Academic
Centres
19,665!students
(15000!UG)

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Information!Services!Strategy
• Environments
• Resources
• Empowerment
• Effective!IT
• Performance
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What!are!our!main!drivers?
• Student!experience
• Academic!engagement
• Affordability
• Quality
• Sustainability
• Scalability
• Innovation

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How!do!we!plan?
• University!mission,!institutional!and!departmental
Strategies,!identifying!drivers,!agreeing!where!we
want!to!be,!working!out!possible!projects,!and!give
it!a!whirl.
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• In!practice!we!need!a!tool!to!help,!and!we!use
Roadmaps.
• These!give!us!an!ability!to!look!well!into!the!future
and!see!a!bigger!picture

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Resources!roadmaps
• Information!Services!uses!a!wide!range!of!roadmaps
to!plan!our!activities.!The!Library!Collections!team
have!focused!on!the!following:
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• Digital!scholarship
• Digital!faculties
• Digital!resource!discovery
• Physical!resources

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Digital!Faculties!Roadmap
2012 2013 2014 2015
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D r iiv e r s
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s e r v iice s
s e r v ce s
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Ci r cul a t on! r e v e w / d y n a mi c! oa n p e r od s
V iir t u a ll!!iindu ct iion
V r t u a ndu ct on
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Re a d iin g !!Li s t s !!a t !!M e dw a y
Re a d ng Li s t s a t M e d w a y
06/02/2013 Information!Services IS!programme/aim

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Shelf'Ready!Strategy
• An!umbrella!strategy!that!governs!several!individual
projects
• Faster!order'to'shelf!process!using!shelf!ready
suppliers
• Optimising!our!ordering!process,!from!identifying
academic!need!through!to!fulfilment
• Unified!classification!scheme
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• Process!mapping
• Release!staff!time
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Why!Aspire!fits!our!approach
• Aspire!a!good!match!therefore!for!our
approach!and!our!identified!priorities!and
drivers.
• Streamlining!of!processes
• Power!to!staff!and!students,!re=balancing
responsibilities!between!Schools!and
Information!Services
• Sharing!of!knowledge!in!the!form!of!reading
lists

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Academic!Engagement
• We!have!had!a!few!different!Reading!List
systems!over!the!years
§ One!step!up!from!paper<based
§ Poor!user!experience
§ Static!feel
§ Closed
§ No!systems!integration
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Making!it!happen

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Reading!Lists!@!Kent!Project

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Where!are!we!now,!and!where!do!we!want!to!go
!next?

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Academic!Liaison!Champion
• Academic!Liaison!Services!has!three!team!leaders,
one!with!a!strategic!focus!on!Learning!and!Teaching
Support.
• This!person!will!continue!to!represent!the!needs!of
users!of!the!system!in!developing!our!installation
and!the!service!it!provides.
• Monitor!take@up,!provide!support,!ensuring!we
maximise!the!implementation!and!integration!with
systems!such!as!Moodle.

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Talis !Aspire!Digitised!Content
Talis!Aspire!Digitised!Content
• Development!partner
!
• Same!aspirations…

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Multiple!Installations
• University!of!Kent!students!experience!a!range!of
services!and!facilities!across!the!different!campuses.
• Aspire!has!given!Canterbury!students!a!good!and
popular!service.
• We!have!nearly!3000!students!at!Medway!C!can
Aspire!be!set!up!to!handle!the!unique!Universities
at!Medway!setCup?
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Drill!Hall!Library,!
Medway!Campus

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Universities!at!Medway
• University!of!Kent
• University!of!Greenwich
• Canterbury!Christchurch
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• Medway!catalogue!hosted!at!Greenwich!(different
to!Kent)
• Kent!electronic!holdings!only!available!on!Kent
catalogue

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Other!ideas
• Resource!Discovery
• Revisiting!those!process!maps
• Plugins
• Can!we!use!the!Aspire!data!to!do!anything!clever?
• Using!online!tools!to!keep!services!running!during…

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Thankyou !
Thankyou!