Rolling out E-books at Central College One Year On Kirsteen Dowie Head of Learning Resources
Our E- books • Dawson Books (from November 2008) • Ebrary (JISC e-books for FE) from (August 2009)
E-books Usage Session 2009/10 250 200 150 100 Dawson Ebrary 50 4 4 0 4 0 0 0 1 0 2 2 5 1 8 1 2 4 7 3 6 1 6 7 9 8 8 9 0
Overall e-books usage comparison 300 250 200 150 08 -09 09 -10 100 50 0 Nov Dec Jan Feb Mar Apr May
How did we get started? • Learning Resource Staff buy-in • Time to review the resource over the summer • Training session at JISC RSC
Joined up thinking – joined up learning resources
Roll out to teaching staff (1) • Attend Head of Schools meeting • Attend curricular school meetings at the start of the session to update them on new developments • Attend curricular school meetings throughout the session
School of IT & Digital Art LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – John Mc. Millan School of Beauty Sport & Health School of Commerce LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Fiona Mc. Lennan LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts School of Hairdressing & Holistic Therapies School of Languages & International Studies n LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Fiona Mc. Lennan LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts School of Business LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Kirsteen Dowie School of Law & Social Sciences LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts & John Mc. Millan (Law) (Social Sciences)
Roll out to teaching staff (2) • Learning Resources Newsletter and blog • Workshops at 2 staff conferences this year
From Cathedral Street to Athens ©The Scotsman Publications Ltd. Licensor www. scran. ac. uk. ©Robert Gordon University. Licensor www. scran. ac. uk.
Without leaving your seat • ©Victoria & Albert museum. Licensor www. scran. ac. uk.
The importance of teaching staff buyin. . . coffee and communication Image source Flickr – Cubist Coffee Cup by Oceanic
E-brary - what did we show them? • How to search the database • How to create an electronic bookshelf • How to share an electronic bookshelf
Roll out to students • General increased uptake of Athens password • Applications easily accessible • Presentations at desk and on plasma screens • Increased workshops offered by Learning Resources Assistant
Workshops Increase in the number of workshops given by Learning Resources Assistant 2009 -10 2008 -9 Series 1 2007 -8 0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70
Further Developments • Further integration with VLE (Moodle) • More workshops • More podcasts
And finally. . . • Communicate, communicate • Get them on your catalogue • Make and share the electronic bookshelves • Take every opportunity to promote the value of the e-books collection
. . . and give feedback • One Management Team reporting • Share your statistics • Newsletter
Online resource usage 21% 41% 11% 9% 3% 4% 5% 6% Ebrary Dawson Infotrac Emerald Know UK Marketline SCRAN Others
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