Back with the pre-entry project people today.

This time they want to link to reading lists which isn't a bad idea.

Except...

how many students before they even arrive are going to want multiple page reading lists?! Perhaps a few items of indicative reading - which the academics have already put into the pre-entry project. But not full blown reading lists when the academic has gone overboard anyway!

and then there's which reading list?
the Library collects them and puts them onto a library system
a local bookshop does the same
(fortunately we collaborate and share what we get)

Sad though it is to say, the bookshop lists look much nicer than the library computer system equivalents. Perhaps unsurprisingly so. But of course the bookshop ones prioritize buying a copy of the book and don't link through to electronic full text when we have it (though they do manage to have a small link that's you'd barely guess its purpose that links to the library catalogue entry for an item).

It just all seems a bit unjoined up as yet. Ironically the reading lists wouldn't even go in the Library part of the pre-entry project!