FAQs

From your list homepage, select Invite list publishers from the Edit drop-down menu.

Enter the email address(es) of the person(s) you want to invite to have access to your list, and click 'Send invites'.

The new editor will receive an automated email from Talis reading lists, the new editor needs to accept the invitation prior to receiving access. Remember to check junk emails as the invitation email can be detected as spam.

This is related to your publishing rights for this list. Contact your Senior Learning Librarian to be sent an invitation to publish. Once you have access you should see buttons as below:

You can organise this through the reading list. Add the resource that you wish to use to the list and add the appropriate importance status (Library to purchase – pre-reading, Library to purchase – prescribed, or Library to purchase – recommended). You can also add library notes to provide additional context (ie, if a title is only in print that you need copies at specific campuses). Once you send the list to review the notes will be actioned, but the library checks for new purchase statuses even before you publish.

If you are considering using a title as a prescribed textbook we recommend that you discuss with your Senior Learning Librarian first to ensure that we can provide access (not all publishers will sell their resources to the library in a way that we can make accessible for your students).

Unfortunately, no. However, if you created the list yourself you will have the resources that you used in your ‘My Bookmarks’ which will assist you to recreate. It is also possible to regularly export a copy of your list if you wish. The RIS and CSV output only have the resources, but the PDF will contain your list structure.

The bookmarking process brings through metadata to create a resource – many times this metadata is accurate and the system can tell that a resource is online without your intervention. However, occasionally this doesnt happen and you need to manually make a change.

Edit the resource (use the ellipses at the right to enter the Edit mode). Click on the ‘Online Resource’ button near the bottom of the page:

This will give a pop up asking you to confirm which link it will open (some resources may have a DOI as well as an html link). Chose the most appropriate one (in general terms we recommend using an LTU address if that is one of the options as that will assist with authentication for any licensed content however for other resources the DOI is fine).

Save the resource record, and the button should now show correctly.

If you have had access to reading lists before but cannot access them now (especially if it’s been some time since you used the platform, or if you have changed roles at LTU) please contact the library with your details. You can do so using this form. We may need to get the vendor to reset your access.

If this is your first time accessing reading lists at La Trobe, please contact your Senior Learning Librarian who will email you an invitation to be a list publisher for your subject(s).

Sometimes when bookmarking you will be prompted that 'Multiple records have been found in the library catalogue. Please select from the list below by clicking on the title link.'

When this occurs, select any of the available options and send the list to Review so that our team can check that the links work correctly.

The reason for this is usually that changes have been made to the list, but not yet published. When you make changes to a reading list, you will need to publish it for those changes to be visible to students. We recommend that you always use the 'Review & Publish' option when publishing.

'Private' is the default setting for La Trobe reading lists. All LTU affiliated staff & students can access these once authenticated. Setting a list to 'public' is not advised, as it can impact the Library's ability to capture accurate usage statistics.

We will set lists to 'public' in certain cases, such as if external users are auditing a subject, LTU short course learners require access, or the list is intended to be public-facing. If you would like to make a particular list publicly accessible, let your Senior Learning Librarian know.

In order to report a broken link, there are two options.

The first is to switch to 'student view'.

Once in this view, you can report that resource has a broken link by clicking on the ellipses to the right of the bookmark and selecting 'Report broken link'.

The second option is to contact your Senior Learning Librarian directly.

You can view some basic usage statistics for your list by clicking on 'View & Export', then selecting 'Analytics', as shown below.

To access more advanced analytics, please contact your Senior Learning Librarian.

You can link to an individual resource within your main text. This is especially useful if you are wanting to provide context within a Moodle Book, Page or Text Box.

Open the Reading list for your subject and find the record for the resource that you wish to use. On the right hand side will be the ellipses – click on them and choose Share item.

This gives you a link with the option to copy it.

Once you have copied, you can use the URL in the LMS when you add a hyperlink.