3. Pre-requisites advised by Talis
1. Support from senior university management
2. Computing support to integrate with VLE
3. Dedicated Academic Liaison team for roll-out

4. Take your opportunity
 Timing
 Funding
 Project lead

5. Learn from others
http://support.talisaspire.com/

7. Open Day videos
http://www.youtube.com/user/TalisAspire
 Richard Cross, NTU
 Trudy Turner, Kent
 June Hedges, UCL

8. Visits from/to Talis

9. Project team
 Carole Rhodes (Academic Liaison & Project lead)
 Keith Hinds (Acquisitions Manager)
 Sarah Roughley (Acquisitions Library Assistant)
 Joe Schulkins (Library Systems)

10. One Page Project Plan
The original OPPM is Copyright OC Tanner 2008.
One-Page Project Plan was adapted by
David Sommer Consulting
for the Practical Project Management Workshop.
http://www.DavidSommerConsulting.com

12. Objectives:
Data migrated in
Library staff using Talis Aspire
Reading lists in VITAL
Staff and students using reading lists
Project Name: Talis Aspire implementation
Project Goal: Make the Talis Aspire system
operational (for library staff, academics
and students)
Completion Date: 23-Sep-13
Project Leader: Carole Rhodes
Updated on: 26-Mar-13

13. 1. Contract with Talis has been signed
2. Communication plan has been created
3. Consultation has taken place on name and branding
4. Tenancy Set-Up Questionnaire has been completed
5. Senior staff have been brought on board to back Aspire
6. Basic Tenancy has been set up
7. Reading list strategy document has been created
8. Liaison Librarians and library staff have been engaged
9. Faculty Student Experience committees / leads made aware
10. Authentication issues have been resolved
11. Workflows and policies have been designed
12. Reading list items have been imported
13. Imported data have been thoroughly checked & tested
14. Training materials have been prepared
15. Training for Liaison Librarians has been delivered

14. 16. Training for Library Assistants has been delivered
17. Reading list items have been edited with importance etc.
18. Full Tenancy with branding has been set up
19. Building block has been installed on VITAL test server
20. Building block has been installed live on VITAL
21. Training plan is in place for academics
22. Marketing materials are ready for academics and students
23. Web support page is in place for academics and students
24. Presentations given at L&T committee/conference/elearn
25. Demos to Schools/Depts are complete.
26. Academics have edited / created lists
27. Academics have been updated on service launch
28. Service has been launched
29. Students are finding reading list items via Talis Aspire
30. Digitisation module is in use

17. Communication
To whom? Library staff (all), academics, students,
admin staff …
How? Via all channels: newsletters, briefing documents,
submissions to committees, departmental meetings,
Learning and Teaching conference …
Upbeat message - and keep going on about it!

23. Advocates
Find early adopters/advocates
Guild (Students’ Union)
Academics to persuade their colleagues
Keep a compliments file

24. “At first I didn’t see the point of this system. Now I wish
we’d got it years ago. I wouldn’t want to be without it.”
Dr Laszlo Pazmany
School of Medicine
Author of our most popular lists:
PBL modules for Medical students.
Module 2.07 had 3,574 page views in January 2014.

25. I went to the workshop on the Library’s excellent Reading Lists @
Liverpool enterprise, a scheme that allows you to construct a
reading list via the library site (but which is not limited to the library
holdings and allows links to external resources to be added in one
place, even letting media clips be inserted) which you can then link
to your module VITAL site and by which students can access the
catalogue, the resources and their availability as relevant, directly.
It’s very impressive and, crucially, easy to use. I’d encourage you all
to think about using it and if you need any help getting started I’ll do
my best to assist.
Dr Rebecca Dixon
School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies

26. Students seemed to react well to it: it’s visually more
attractive than other available forms of listing we have
used (e.g. within VITAL itself) and directly brings up
much more relevant information (such as library stocks).
So I would say that student response has been positive
so far, though I can’t say that I asked them specifically
about this function — it was just there in the background.
Prof Mark Collier
School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology

27. Integration, integration, integration
VLE: Blackboard (VITAL)
Library Web pages
Library catalogue
Discovery service (Discover)
LibGuides
Programme Planner
Work is ongoing to make reading lists part of university
systems and processes.

36. What’s in a name?

37. A pre-populated system
1,700 lists when Reading Lists @ Liverpool went live
23rd September 2013
63% (?) of modules covered
Data imported from library catalogue
Lists edited by library staff
Much easier to engage academics if some of the work
has been done for them

38. Success
Success project kicked off July 2013, running to July
2014
Small team again, but ownership of success is spread
out to all Liaison Librarians
Another project, another plan …
Making Reading Lists @ Liverpool an integral part of
the university.
… to be continued …