New year greetings from the ReadingLists@UCL team! Three things to get us back in the swing of term.

1. Applications are open again for Student Curriculum Partners nominations [link edited when applications closed, to direct to an information page].  This is a wonderful scheme pairing students with modules, to review them through the lens of inclusivity.  The academic receives recommendations on their module, and an insight into how students view their curriculum.  A key aim of the project is to reduce awarding gaps for marginalised student groups at UCL.  As an academic all you need to do is nominate your module to initiate the process. Did you know you can use your online reading list as a starting point to examining the diversity in a module?  Take this further with our ReadingLists@UCL’s Guide, Liberating the Curriculum page.
2. During Disability History month 2024 the UCL Community contributed book suggestions on the national theme ‘Disability, livelihood and employment’. Read more in the UCL article ‘Disability History Month 2024’.  The call out is from the Library Liberating the Collections group, and if you wish to find the recommended books in UCL Libraries then online reading lists are created for all the History and Celebration months.
3. Finally, our ReadingLists@UCL Guide for academic and support staff has had a significant update, with additional resources.  Do take a look for support in linking your list to Moodle, getting started and more.  You can book a 1:1 with the team any time, to learn how to add and manage readings, ask questions or troubleshoot issues.  We look forward to hearing from you!

Each morning we arrive to many requests for editing access to online reading lists; and teaching and support staff have been calling into our Wednesday drop-in for training in how to best use them.  Term 1 is only a few days away and there much preparation going on!

In the run up to induction week, site and subject liaison librarians have also been requesting support material to hand out in induction packs, or to refresh a notice board.

The images here are two posters that are available as pdf to print for your department, and also bundles of Owl postcards.  Please get in touch with TLS to request any of these.

To particularly help those Departmental Administrators, Librarians and other support staff, our webpages ReadingLists@UCL for Support Staff is being updated as we speak.  Please let us know if there is anything else that we can usefully add there to help you!