Transcript Creating Reading Lists

Creating Reading Lists: tips and
tools
Canapés with Clio 16th April 2008
Judy Reading @ouls.ox.ac.uk
Good practice
• Make sure what you
recommend is available
• Make sure the references
are correct
• Consider letting the
students look for
themselves sometimes
• Let the Library know in
good time
Interactive reading lists
• Links to locations in Oxford
– for books and journal
articles
• Using web 2.0 tools to
encourage discussion
around reading lists
Some Oxford examples
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History faculty lists
HFL Library lists
Education lists
Film studies
The key to linking is your url:
uniform resource location
European cinema list in Weblearn
Obtain your url from OLIS
• Search the OLIS web version
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/olis/ for
the specific resource you want
to link to.
• Mark the record (or records)
you want.
• select Marked records
• Email the records to yourself
using either HTML email or
Reading list format.
Mark the record (or records) you want
and select Marked records
Choose
from the marked records display
Email the marked records to yourself in either the
HTML summary or Reading list formats
HTML Summary email
PLEASE NOTE: This is an automated email from the OLIS web OPAC
server at Oxford University (http://library.ox.ac.uk). Address enquiries
about the OLIS web OPAC system (not about inter-library loans or
individual catalogue records) to [email protected].
Falk, Joyce Duncan., Searching America : History and life (AHL) and
Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K.
Kinnell (Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO, c1987)
Bann, Stephen., The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of
history in nineteenth-century Britain and France / Stephen Bann.
(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1984.)
The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and
patron functions such as reserving books, can be found at
http://library.ox.ac.uk/.
Reading list format
You selected the "reading list" format, which emails you the records as a piece of HTML code suitable for inclusion on your
own web page (for example as a reading list). For each item the author, title, and publication information is displayed, as well
as a link to check for the item on OLIS (for example to see the current loan statuses).
Below are HTML fragments for the records formatted as a list. Simply cut and paste to the source of the web page you are
writing. The HTML is ready for use with CSS (style sheets) if you wish. A sample set of styles is at the bottom of this email.
<!-- HTML LIST -->
<ul class="checkOLISsection">
<li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10014500" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Falk, Joyce
Duncan.</span>, <span class="title">Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG /
Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell</span> <span class="published">(Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO,
c1987)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10014500--> </p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Bann,
Stephen.</span>, <span class="title">The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of history in nineteenth-century
Britain and France / Stephen Bann.</span> <span class="published">(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
1984.)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10092137--> </p></li>
</ul>
<p class="checkOLISinfull">The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions such
as reserving books, can be found at <a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/">http://library.ox.ac.uk/</a>.</p>
<!-- END OF HTML LIST -->
<!-- SAMPLE CSS -->
<style type="text/css">
.title {font-style:italic;}
.published {font-size:smaller}
p.checkOLISinfull {font-size:smaller; color:\#666; text-align:center;}
.checkOLISsection p {margin-bottom:0.5em;}
.checkOLISsection a {text-decoration:none;} </style>
<!-- END OF SAMPLE CSS-->
Reading list format
For hyperlinked references copy
the chunk of text between <!—
LIST
> toand
<! of–theEND
Below are HTML fragments for the records formattedHTML
as a list. Simply
cut and-paste
the source
web pageOF
you are
writing. The HTML is ready for use with CSS (style sheets) if you wish. A sample set of styles is at the bottom of this email.
HTML LIST -- >
You selected the "reading list" format, which emails you the records as a piece of HTML code suitable for inclusion on your
own web page (for example as a reading list). For each item the author, title, and publication information is displayed, as well
as a link to check for the item on OLIS (for example to see the current loan statuses).
<!-- HTML LIST -->
<ul class="checkOLISsection">
<li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10014500" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Falk, Joyce
Duncan.</span>, <span class="title">Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on
DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell</span> <span class="published">(Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford :
ABC-CLIO, c1987)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10014500--> </p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Bann,
Stephen.</span>, <span class="title">The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of history in nineteenthcentury Britain and France / Stephen Bann.</span> <span class="published">(Cambridge : Cambridge University
Press, 1984.)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10092137--> </p></li>
</ul>
<p class="checkOLISinfull">The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron
functions such as reserving books, can be found at <a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/">http://library.ox.ac.uk/</a>.</p>
<!-- END OF HTML LIST -->
<!-- SAMPLE CSS -->
<style type="text/css">
.title {font-style:italic;}
.published {font-size:smaller}
p.checkOLISinfull {font-size:smaller; color:\#666; text-align:center;}
.checkOLISsection p {margin-bottom:0.5em;}
.checkOLISsection a {text-decoration:none;} </style>
<!-- END OF SAMPLE CSS-->
Reading list format
You selected the "reading list" format, which emails you the records as a piece of HTML code suitable for inclusion on your
own web page (for example as a reading list). For each item the author, title, and publication information is displayed, as well
as a link to check for the item on OLIS (for example to see the current loan statuses).
For a permanent url to a resource on OLIS just
copy the DOCID eg
<!-- HTML LIST -->
<ul class="checkOLISsection">
http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137
<li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10014500" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Falk, Joyce
Below are HTML fragments for the records formatted as a list. Simply cut and paste to the source of the web page you are
writing. The HTML is ready for use with CSS (style sheets) if you wish. A sample set of styles is at the bottom of this email.
Duncan.</span>, <span class="title">Searching America : History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts (HA) on DIALOG /
Joyce Duncan Falk and Susan K. Kinnell</span> <span class="published">(Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford : ABC-CLIO,
c1987)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10014500--> </p></li>
<li><p><a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/find?DocID=10092137" target="checkOLIS"> <span class="author">Bann,
Stephen.</span>, <span class="title">The clothing of Clio : a study of the representation of history in nineteenth-century
Britain and France / Stephen Bann.</span> <span class="published">(Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
1984.)</span> </a><!-- LCN is 10092137--> </p></li>
</ul>
<p class="checkOLISinfull">The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions such
as reserving books, can be found at <a href="http://library.ox.ac.uk/">http://library.ox.ac.uk/</a>.</p>
<!-- END OF HTML LIST -->
<!-- SAMPLE CSS -->
<style type="text/css">
.title {font-style:italic;}
.published {font-size:smaller}
p.checkOLISinfull {font-size:smaller; color:\#666; text-align:center;}
.checkOLISsection p {margin-bottom:0.5em;}
.checkOLISsection a {text-decoration:none;} </style>
<!-- END OF SAMPLE CSS-->
Live links can be embedded in
reading lists in:
• Word documents loaded
on the web
• Web pages
• Weblearn
You can choose
• To insert a hyperlink in a bit of
text in your list eg “Locate”
• each reference could be
hyperlinked eg
Falk, Joyce Duncan., Searching America :
History and life (AHL) and Historical abstracts
(HA) on DIALOG / Joyce Duncan Falk and
Susan K. Kinnell (Santa Barbara, Calif ; Oxford :
ABC-CLIO, c1987)
The OLIS web OPAC, providing a detailed view
of the OLIS catalogue and patron functions
such as reserving books, can be found at
http://library.ox.ac.uk/.
You can link to anything with a
web address – but make sure it is a
permanent one
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Journal articles
Journal issues and titles
Full-text resources
Web resources
Pictures
Archives
Historical resources
• JSTOR and many other journal
providers offer stable urls (also
known as durable, persistent
etc). DOI (Digital Object
Identifiers) are durable urls.
• Historical abstracts includes a
permanent url if you email
references to yourself
• EEBO offers a durable url from
the document record
Alternatives …
• Use EasyWriter to create a
reading list in Weblearn
• Refworks has a share
references function Refworks
• EndnoteWeb offers something
similar
Or Web 2.0 tools like
• Worldcat from OCLC
which offers a lists function
• LibraryThing allows people
to create personal libraries
Web 2.0 services are about
collaboration, usergenerated content and
communication.
In conclusion
• I hope this has been useful. Do
get in touch if I can help in any
way.
• We are offering a WISER session
on Reading lists on the 28th
May. See me for further details
on my stall
• Judy Reading
[email protected]
www.ouls.ox.ac.uk/training