Publishing and Maintaining Your Reading List

Once you have formatted your reading list and populated it with resources, you'll want to ensure that each item has a set reading importance and that you've added in any notes for your students or for the Library against the items (if relevant). When your list is complete, publishing it will make it visible to students and enable the Library to review it.

Once you have created your Reading List, you will need to Publish it for the material to become viewable to your students

Where possible, this should be done by the deadlines specified for each term, which are communicated via email and can also be found on the Talis homepage and the Reading List homepage, to allow sufficient time for print and digital material to be made available for the start of teaching.

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Draft lists are hidden from users who are not logged in and they are also completely hidden from the student view (whether a student is logged in or not). Similarly, when you make changes to a previously published list, students cannot view these changes until you publish the list again. Your list's status will be indicated under the title (draft, published or unpublished changes).

To publish your reading list at any time, simply click the Publish button at the top right of the list.

Before publishing your list, please ensure that:

• Every item has a set reading Importance. If an item does not have a set Importance it will be labelled 'Importance not set' in red.
• The list has a module code attached or in the title. Codes for new modules will need to be manually added into Talis by the Reading List Team, so don't worry if you can't find the code in the hierarchy, we'll add it for you after you publish.
• The list shows the expected number of students on the module.This can be an estimate and can be changed later by yourself or the Reading List Team. This number must be entered/amended manually and does not not connect to any student records systems, so will not update automatically.
• The list title indicates the time of year the module will run and if offsite from the main campus. For example "Term 2", "Venice Centre", "Shard".
• You have requested any required digitisations for this cycle. These can be requested later as well but it's a good idea to do them now so as not to forget. Existing scans attached to the list which have rolled over from the last cycle do not need to be re-requested.

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You can make changes to or update your list at any time as your teaching and research develop. Again, please remember to publish your list after changes are made to ensure they are visible to students.

Published lists are rolled-over annually in early May, which creates a new draft copy of each one for the next year of teaching. The library will contact you by email when this happens, at which point you can make any necessary changes and republish the list, or notify that the list is no longer required for that cycle. This is not only a great time to make any new additions to your list, but also a good time to review the existing content for anything that may be out-of-date and could be removed or replaced.

Towards the end of Term 1, the Library will archive reading lists from the previous cycle to avoid confusion, with the exception of certain departments hich operate outside of the usual term times (for example Education and the Med School).