Abstract
n the era of high student fees and intense market competition, many universities now buy books for their new students, and recently have incorporated student choice into the offer, enabling students to choose how to spend funds. Teesside University has successfully piloted such an approach with one academic School, the School of Social Sciences, Humanities and Law. The pilot has now been extended to all academic Schools, with all students receiving £100 per academic year to spend on reading list books. The scheme covers new full-time undergraduate students at the University, and is operated in collaboration with an external company, John Smiths. The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Teesside University Advance scheme against baseline data of book borrowing and reservation patterns of reading list titles. The paper explores the impact upon the student experience and student perceptions of the Library.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 3 |
Pages (from-to) | 196-200 |
Number of pages | 5 |
Journal | Performance Measurement and Metrics |
Volume | 20 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 11 Nov 2019 |
Externally published | Yes |