Submitting Requests for Digitisation (Scans):

Scans should now be requested directly via the bookmarks on your reading lists. Just click on the 'Request Digitisation' option, which will send your request directly to the team at the Library. Please note that this replaces the old practice of requesting scans via the Note for Library on the bookmarks.

You can submit a digitisation request at any time throughout the cycle, but please try to make your requests before publishing your reading list if possible.

Scans from the previous cycle's lists will rollover automatically and shouldn’t need to be re-requested. Please use this feature to request chapter/sections scans and not for e-book requests.

For more detailed information, please see Request Digitisation (Scans).

'Get It For Me' links in Further Reading bookmarks:

For Further Reading items we are continuing with the ‘on demand’ approach. So, if a Further Reading item on your list is not already in stock, we will either link to a purchase-on-demand e-book, automatically providing access to the title or, if the book is not available in this way, we will link to the 'Get It For Me' request service in the Note for Student on the bookmark. This will trigger an urgent order for the item, reserving it for the student.

Instructors: please do not use this form to request materials for your reading lists. Instead leave a Note for Library against the item requesting that we acquire it and then re-publish your list so that the Library is notified of the note left against the item.

This was first piloted for the 2024/25 cycle and proved very efficient. It enables the Library to focus staff resource at peak times on delivering essential and recommended readings for the start of teaching. We closely monitors this and continues to welcome user feedback.

Mandatory Importances for all Reading List items

From May 2025, list owners will be required to set a reading importance for all bookmarks, either when the item is added to a list or at the time of publishing the list.

You will still be able to change the set importances at any time when republishing. If you attempt to publish a list which contains items with unset importances, Talis will remind you to add these in.

Setting importances improves the reading list experience for all users:

• Helps students plan their reading: importances guide students’ learning by identifying readings which may need to be discussed in class, studied for exams or consulted when researching for assessments
• Ensures the Library provides sufficient resources by understanding anticipated demand: item importances, along with other factors such as the anticipated student number, inform the Library‘s purchasing decisions

For more guidance on using the different reading impoirtances, as well as how the Library interprets them from an acquisitions perspective, please see the Setting Reading Importance.