Advantages of Using Aspire Reading Lists

What are the advantages of using Aspire Reading Lists at Aberystwyth University?

For students

• Up-to-date module reading
• Library stock available in time for learning
• Integration into Primo and Blackboard
• Click-through to e-books and full-text journals and articles
• Click-through to digitised chapters and articles
• Guidance notes
• Personal reading record
• Enhanced study experience

For academic staff 

• Harvest learning resources from the web
• Drive selection and purchase of library materials
• Speed up the research process
• Collaborate with colleagues around team teaching
• Integrate the reading list into your Blackboard module
• Easily create and manage reading list
• Personalise list to suit module structure
• Increase student engagement and support
• Enhance delivery of learning and teaching

Video: three academics at Liverpool University talk about their experiences with Aspire

For AU libraries

• Acquire library stock in time for learning and teaching
• Improve work-flow efficiencies
• Increase academic engagement
• Raise the library profile
• Meet student expectations
• Increase use of library resource