Our Electronic Resources librarian is evaluating a product called Reading
List Direct
http://www.readinglistdirect.co.uk/info/
The vendors claim they are VLE independent but also developing a module to
link to Blackboard, though it's not at all clear from their marketing bumph
exactly what this means. They also seem to be heavily tied into bol.com,
which I find a bit disquieting. The attraction on the library side may be
that you can plan your purchasing on the basis of how frequently books
appear across the mass of reading lists etc.
Is anyone using/evaluating Reading List Direct, or maybe using alternative
products to generate reading lists in BB? Or is there a building block that
does something similar (not that we can use BBs at UEA at present)?
Nigel
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Nigel Curson
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Phone +44(0)1603 593931
Manager, Learning Technology Group,
University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk/ltg/
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