Promoting affordable learning and building community with Alma and Leganto

Promoting affordable learning with Core textbook reserves

Goal for Alma: provide cost per use of print textbooks placed on reserve

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• Library bought textbooks for 46 Core courses
• $2400 total; avg $59 per textbook
• 3-hour reserves

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Promoting affordable learning with Core textbook reserves

Alma Course Reserves

Four parts to put an item on reserve:

Part 1: Adding the course

Part 2: Adding reading lists to the course

Part 3: Adding citations (reserve items) to the reading lists

Part 4: Set the reading list to "Complete" to make it visible to patrons in Primo VE

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Note: Course information is loaded from our course management system (Banner) every semester. Reading lists are matched to loaded courses.

Promoting affordable learning with Core textbook reserves

Adding metadata to textbook records

Bibliographic record

• Tag added to 590 field: UALR Core Textbook
• Tag added to 590 field: UALR Faculty Course Reserve

Item record - for volumes at the reserves shelf

• Tag added to Internal note 1: UALR Core Textbook
• Tag added to Internal note 2: UALR Faculty Course Reserve

Purchase Order line

• Manually create a purchase order line

Reading list

• Add textbook citation to course reading list

Promoting affordable learning with Core textbook reserves

Creating cost per use analytics for Core textbooks

Bibliographic Details (Title) (LOC Class)

• Filter for Item Internal Note 1 = UALR Core Textbook

Physical Item Details (Num of Loans)

Fund Transactions (PO Line Total Price)

PO Line (PO Creation Date)

Fund Transactions (PO Line Total Price)

• Edit Formula "Fund Transactions"."PO Line Total Price" / "Physical Items"."Physical Item Details"."Time Loaned"

Note: Search Analytics Community Reports in Shared Folders to find and to repurpose “Cost per use - print.”

Promoting affordable learning with Core textbook reserves

To edit/create a formula in Alma analytics

Example of cost per use query results

Building community with Leganto social annotations

Goal for Leganto: Investigate the use of social annotation and social presence using Social Reading and analytics.

• Research team requested to opt into the Student Success Measurements Service to track individual student information.
• Social Reading is different from Read and Respond.
• The study will include results from classes using Hypothes.is

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Building community with Leganto social annotations

Creating analytics for Social Reading annotations

• Courses (Course Name, Course Instructor)
• Student Details (First Name, Last Name, Student ID)
• Student Usage (Number of Citation Views, Added Public/Private Annotations, Number of Likes)

Building community with Leganto social annotations

Example of Leganto Social Reading report

Building community with Leganto social annotations

Beyond Leganto analytics

• Evidence of community building
• Frequency of interaction in replies to annotations
• Evidence of social presence
• Text analysis of annotations with R.Studio
• Text classification
• Topic modeling
• Sentiment analysis

Contact

Louise Lowe, Student Success Coordinator

lllowe@ualr.edu

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Chris Stewart, Discovery and Metadata Coordinator

cstewart@ualr.edu