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Providing information about reading lists via a dashboard interface

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posted on 2013-01-30, 11:36 authored by Jason CooperJason Cooper, Jon KnightJon Knight, Gary BrewertonGary Brewerton
As developers of the open source LORLS Resource/Reading List Management System we have developed a dashboard to better support academic staffs’ understanding of how their students use reading lists. This dashboard provides both graphical and tabulated information drawn from LORLS and the Aleph Integrated Library System. Development of the dashboard required changes to back-end functionality of LORLS such as logging views of reading lists and caching of loan data. Changes to the front end included the use of HTML5 canvas elements to generate pie charts and line graphs. Recently launched to academic staff at Loughborough University, the dashboard has already garnered much praise. It is hoped that further development of the dashboard will provide even more support for academics in the compilation of their reading lists.

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  • University Academic and Administrative Support

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  • University Library

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COOPER, J., KNIGHT, J. and BREWERTON, G., 2013. Providing information about reading lists via a dashboard interface. Code4Lib, 19, http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7745

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Code4Lib (Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License)

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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2013

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This article was published in the Code4Lib Journal [Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License] and the definitive version is available at: http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7745

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1940-5758

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  • en

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