ReadingLists@UCL reach 65% target!

I am very pleased to report that ReadingLists@UCL has reached its target for July 2017: 65% of taught courses at UCL now have an online reading list.

The target was set in the UCL Library Services Strategy to have 65% coverage by the end of July 2017. 65% equates to more than 3,000 reading lists, and forty-one departments have met, or exceeded 65% coverage. To show how far we have come, the first measurement of the new system in October 2014 showed a baseline of around 29% coverage.

Librarians, administrators and academics have worked hard to embrace the online reading lists, with the aim of providing excellent quality guidance and resources to students. With a wealth of e-resources available to us at UCL, many essential texts link to full-text readings, or are digitised using our CLA licence.

Here are some figures. Between 1st September 2016 and 31st July:

• there were more than 460,000 visitors
• the top visited reading list was ‘ANTH1001 Introduction to material and visual culture’ with 5425 page views
• total visits each month have been consistently higher than in the same period last year
• the busiest month was October 2016 with more than 70,000 visits
• … and around two-thirds of these were returning visitors, demonstrating that students return to lists rather than look just once.

You can read more about online reading lists on our webpages and in our ReadingLists@UCL blog.  And of course do get in touch if you would like to know more!