Reading strategies - Getting started: The Library

• In which loan categories are these copies? Standard Loans, Week Loans, reference-only, e-books? (See Types of resources for practical details of the different categories)

• Throughout the entire module

• Several weeks

• A few days

• A few hours

• General reading

• Preparation for a specific session / tasks (will they all need 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• Subscribed to / purchased by the Library (journal articles / e-books / images / film-clips / historical documents etc.)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? Many university libraries will not give access to undergraduate students from other universities during their own term-time. Some may also restrict all visitors at their own exam time