Aspire at Monash University

Rod Rizzi Talis Aspire User Group University of Leicester, UK 1st – 2nd July 2014

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1.  Monash University 2.  Aspire & Monash 3.  Reading List Workload 4.  Multi Campus Institution 5.  Distant Learners 6.  Current Issues

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Monash University in a nutshell §  Started as one location in 1961

–  Merged with other long established institutions 1990’s –  Australian Group of Eight founding member

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Monash University in a nutshell §  Where are we?

–  5 campuses in Australia –  3 overseas locations: Italy, Malaysia and South Africa –  Monash College programs through Asia

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Monash University in a nutshell §  How big are we?

–  63000 Students *2013 data

•  46,000 Undergraduate •  17,000 Postgraduate

–  8000 Staff [Academic and Professional]

What Aspire Delivers §  Simple reading list workflow, leading to efficient use of staff time

§  Responsive and supportive software provider

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What Aspire Delivers §  A quality reading list platform for our varying user groups

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Reading List Workload

§  2 Semesters per year

–  Lists cover single or both semesters

§  1100 lists in 2014

§  Some lists with over 400 items

§  Some lists with over 8000 page views for Semester

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Managing Aspire with Multi Campuses §  Unique lists to each campus are dealt with by staff at that campus

§  Where a subject is taught across campuses: first to receive manage the list and order material for all

§  Digitisation and database access is managed centrally in Australia

§  Single tenancy ILMS restricts ability to present local view for Malaysia and South Africa library collections

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Distance Learners §  Notes feature utilised to strengthen collaboration between the student,

library and academics

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Distance Learners §  Aspire in acting as a curated online publication has helped to underpin

the library’s e-preferred policy

–  Has lead to a more streamlined ordering process

–  Broadened scope of tasks for staff

–  Territorial distribution measures restricting access for both Australian and overseas students

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Current Issues §  Citation styles not formatted as lecturers would expect

§  Copyright

–  Australian copyright law highly restrictive –  Potential for law makers to move on local storage restriction

§  Moodle Integration

–  Looking closely at current pilot in UK –  Upgrading to new version

§  Academic Involvement

–  Sounding out potential candidates –  Promote virtues of usage data from dashboard –  May be dependent on Moodle integration

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Questions

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