How do I update my reading list?

If you are a module co-ordinator and an Aspire reading list for one of your modules has already been created by someone else, add it to My Lists in Aspire (How do I do that?) before starting this checklist.

Please contact your subject librarian (How do I do that?) or email librarians@aber.ac.uk if you have any questions or would like to arrange some one-to-one help.

For your students

• Update the Aspire list content
• Add any new titles from Primo ( How do I do that? ) or not in Primo (How do I do that?)
• Remove any unwanted or obsolete items ( How do I do that? )
• Check for newer editions of existing titles in the list and either add them or replace the existing editions in the list as needed
• Check for and fix any broken links (How do I do that?)
• Arrange the list items in sections by weekly readings, themes etc. as required ( How do I do that? )
• Ensure any advice for your students is included in a Note for students (How do I do that?), for example, if an ebook is only available to a limited number of users simultaneously
• Avoid assembling an excessively long list; a reading list supports learning, it is not an exhaustive bibliography

For timely library stock purchasing and digitisations

• Ensure your reading list is complete for the new academic year before the reading list deadline (What are the reading list deadlines?)
• Ensure each item on the list has the correct importance level selected, that is, Essential or Further Reading ( How do I do that? ) (What will happen?) 
  • If you want the Library to try to source an ebook for any title you have added, add a Note to Library (How do I do that?) requesting an ebook
• To ensure that a book is purchased, it must be added as the resource type Book to the Aspire list (How do I do that from Primo? or not from Primo? )
• To ensure that a journal article or 10% / one chapter of a book is digitised
  • it must be added to the Aspire list as the resource type Article or Chapter, and
  • digitisation must be requested using the Request Digitisation online form (How do I do that?)  
• Ensure any additional information or questions for library staff are included in a Note to library ( How do I do that? )

Before re-publishing, check 

• The title of your list contains the correct module code(s) and module title (s) ( How can I do that? )
• The list is attached to hierarchy to the matching module code ( How do I change that? )
• The time period is correct  ( How do I change that? )
• The list owner is correct ( How do I change that? )

Now re-publish

• Re-publish your list ( How do I do that? )

to ensure

• the Library can buy the books and process the digitisations you have added
• your students will see the changes you have made to your reading list when they view the Aspire list in Blackboard