York St John University selects Talis Aspire for improved reading list solution
York St John University have selected Talis Aspire to manage and deliver its online reading lists service.
York St John University Library aims to improve student experience with improved access to resources. They plan to integrate reading lists with their Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) Moodle through the Talis Aspire Learning Tools Interoperability (LTI) tool.
The library will also see streamlined workflows, with better capability to manage library acquisitions and improved reporting functionality.
Talis Aspire will also be integrated with York St John University’s Library Management System Capita Alto and their Discovery Tool, EBSCO. This will provide a seamless way to add resources to reading lists, and provide direct links to these resources for their students, including real-time library holding information and single sign-on access where relevant.
“We are pleased to welcome York St John University to the Talis Aspire community, joining 95 other institutions worldwide. The Talis team will be working closely with them to migrate their existing data and to ensure a smooth implementation. We look forward to working with them to help achieve their goals with Talis Aspire online reading lists.” said David Errington, CEO of Talis.
Victoria Watt, Acting Deputy Director Information Learning & Estates at York St John University told us that “York St John has a long established history of using online reading list systems which underpin our validation processes and our learning and teaching. We are looking forward to the benefits Talis Aspire will bring to our academics, students and librarians and the improvements it will bring to the student experience. We are particularly impressed by the ways in which Talis Aspire will allow us to integrate lists into our Moodle VLE. We will be keen to promote the analytics aspects of the system to our academic staff and we will be using this information to help librarians guide our acquisitions workflow.”
The Talis Services team have already begun the implementation process, with a plan to have their reading lists live at the end of May to ensure a smooth handover between the systems.
York St John University, founded in 1841 is one of the oldest institutions in the UK. It has a growing student population of 6,000 students, including more than 500 international students. York St John University is one of only two UK Universities to be awarded the Social Enterprise Gold Mark Holder for Business Excellence.
