Reading Strategies Guide

Are the books the latest editions?

For print books: how many copies do we have? Are they all loanable?

For e-books: what access do we have?

Our Resources guide can tell you about our loan types and the different access models that e-books may have.

• Throughout the entire module?
• Several weeks?
• A few days?
• A few hours?

• General reading?
• Preparation for a specific session / tasks? Will they all need to access it at the same time?
• Essential reading for engagement in the module?
• Essential reading for completing the assessment?

• All of them?
• Most of them?
• A few of them?
• Those who choose a particular option?
• Those who are allocated a particular task (e.g. presenting at a seminar)?

• Have you looked at the stock in the Library to see if there is other material that could supplement or substitute for your preferred material?

• Subscribed to / purchased by the Library (journal articles / e-books / images / film-clips / historical documents etc.)?
• Freely available on Government / Official sites (reports / legislation etc.)?
• Free online digitised collections, such as Project Gutenberg (out-of-copyright literary works)?
• Open Access book publishing, such as OpenStax (Open Access textbooks)?
• Institutional or subject repositories (journal articles / theses / reports)?

How will you indicate this availability to the students? Will they know where to get it from?

• Is there anything that they have already been advised to buy for another module that might be useful here?
• Is the material still commercially available?
• Would the material make a good investment for future modules, or for future professional practice?

• Is it owned by the Institution? – i.e. by the Library or by the Subject Area, not by an individual.
• Do you only require a single chapter of each book or a single article from each journal issue for the module?
• Have you read the guidelines and policy on the Scans and copyright information page?
• Is there sufficient time for the item to be scanned and put on Moodle?

• Is it owned by the Institution? – i.e. by the Library or by the Subject Area, not by an individual
• Do you only require a single chapter of each book or a single article from each journal issue for the module?

• Have you read the CLA guidelines on coursepacks?
• Is there sufficient time to assemble the resources in time for the module?
• How will you distribute the pack? Will you charge for it?

• When would students be expected to visit other institutions? Different libraries have different rules around visiting students, with many libraries restricting access to undergraduates from other institutions at certain times of year, for example during exam periods.