Reading Lists

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Hello. This video is aimed at helping students at Birmingham

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City University to find and use their module Reading Lists in

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Reading Lists Online.

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Reading Lists Online is a way for students to link their

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studies with the resources they need to succeed. It's linked to

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Moodle and integrated with Birmingham City University's

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Library Search and provide a live link to full text or a

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library catalogue entry, as well as to other resources such as

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music, video, web pages and so on.

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The easiest way to access your reading list is via the modules'

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Moodle page.

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We can see the Library Resources box over on the right of the

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screen.

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The top link in this box is to Reading Lists Online.

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If we click on the Reading List Online link,

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it takes us through to the reading list for this particular

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module.

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You can also find your reading list by heading to the library

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home page

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bcu.ac.uk/library.

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If we scroll down the page,

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we find the Reading List link. Lower down here.

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If we click on the link, it takes us through to the Reading

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Lists Online home page, where we can use the search bar to search

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for the module that we're looking for. You can search by

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module code, by the module name, or even by the lecturer's name.

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Now this reading list is split into sections called core

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reading and wider reading.

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Lecturers may choose to use other sections, such as weekly

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reading, or group items together as web pages, books, articles,

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and so on,

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whatever they're called. You can jump to the various sections

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by clicking on the link at the top of the list there.

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You can also use these function buttons on the top right of the

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list too. For example,

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Philtre your list by material type

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or you can also choose to print your list off.

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The links in the list entries are live links.

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So for example if we click on the book cover image on the left

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of the screen here,

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it will give us more information about the book such as where we

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can find it in the library, date of publication and so on.

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If we click on the title link

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will be taken through to the library catalogue entry

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where we can see how many copies are available, whereabouts in

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the library the book can be found, and if there's one

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available, a link to the full text in the ebook version.

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So there we have it, reading lists online. Quick, simple and

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easy to use. Thanks for listening.