Online Reading lists
All modules will generally have a reading list of resources recommended by the module leader. These lists are made available to students via our Leganto reading lists platform and linked to the module on Course Resources. You can find out more about the reading lists system from our dedicated guide.
Reading lists, directly linked from within Blackboard, make it easy for students to access recommended reading as they provide dynamic links to the specific resources you have recommended to your students. Where the material is available online, students have a single link to click to access it.
What can reading lists include?
You can put links to just about any resource on your reading list; it doesn’t just have to be resources we provide in the library. Your reading list can contain items that we have in stock in the Library, items that you'd like us to order, online books and journal articles available via the Library's subscriptions, and freely-available online material such as videos and blogs.
Remember that if you need your students to read a specific chapter or journal article, that we don’t have available in electronic format, you can use a digitisation scheme to arrange for a scanned document to be added to the list. You can find out more about digitisation from the reading lists guide mentioned above.
How to find your lists
You can find your module reading lists from
The module page on Course Resources (Blackboard)
From the library home page; look for the reading lists button
From this direct link (you will need to sign in to see the lists you are associated with)
Module leads are the owners and editors of their online reading lists and can update lists at any point in the academic year. It's really important to review your lists each year and to make sure that you've identified a 'reading preference' for each item on the list as we use that to determine how many copies of the books should be purchased for the Library. You can find out more about how new items are added to the Library from the next tab on this page.
Contact information
For help or advice about content for your reading lists email your Academic Librarian. For help with technical issues relating to reading list management contact readinglists@derby.ac.uk
Reading Lists Driven Acquisitions
Collection development is driven via the Library purchasing directly from reading lists; a process called Reading List Driven Acquisition (RLDA)..
Adding titles to reading lists is the main way new items are purchased so it’s important that you add new books to your lists to help build the library collection. We have a designated budget for these items and try to purchase eBooks where they are available and additional print copies to ensure access. The number of items purchased is determined by a set of criteria based on:
You can find out more about how we purchase eBooks here
There are several other ways we buy resources for the Library, listed below.