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1 Rolling out E-books at Central College One Year On Kirsteen Dowie Head of Learning Resources

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4 Our E- books Dawson Books (from November 2008) Ebrary (JISC e-books for FE) from (August 2009)

5 E-books Usage Session 2009/10

6 Overall e-books usage comparison

7 How did we get started? Learning Resource Staff buy-in Time to review the resource over the summer Training session at JISC RSC

8 Joined up thinking – joined up learning resources

9 Roll out to teaching staff (1) Attend Head of Schools meeting Attend curricular school meetings at the start of the session to update them on new developments Attend curricular school meetings throughout the session

10 School of Business LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Kirsteen Dowie School of Beauty Sport & Health LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Fiona McLennan School of Hairdressing & Holistic Therapies n LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Fiona McLennan School of IT & Digital Art LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – John McMillan School of Law & Social Sciences LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts & John McMillan (Law) (Social Sciences) School of Languages & International Studies LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts School of Commerce LEARNING CURVE LIAISON – Claire Roberts

11 Roll out to teaching staff (2) Learning Resources Newsletter and blog Workshops at 2 staff conferences this year

12 From Cathedral Street to Athens ©Robert Gordon University. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk. ©The Scotsman Publications Ltd. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk.

13 Without leaving your seat ©Victoria & Albert museum. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk.

14 The importance of teaching staff buy- in...coffee and communication Image source Flickr – Cubist Coffee Cup by Oceanic

15 E-brary - what did we show them? How to search the database How to create an electronic bookshelf How to share an electronic bookshelf

16 Roll out to students General increased uptake of Athens password Applications easily accessible Presentations at desk and on plasma screens Increased workshops offered by Learning Resources Assistant

17 Workshops Increase in the number of workshops given by Learning Resources Assistant

18 Further Developments Further integration with VLE (Moodle) More workshops More podcasts

19 And finally... Communicate, communicate, communicate Get them on your catalogue Make and share the electronic bookshelves Take every opportunity to promote the value of the e-books collection

20 ... and give feedback One Management Team reporting Share your statistics Newsletter

21 Online resource usage

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