Happy new year! And welcome to the January 2022 e-books for FE newsletter.

e-books procurement 2022

We are now starting the annual e-books procurement process, and taking a different approach from previous years. Rather than asking library staff to provide us with spreadsheets of wanted titles, we would like your feedback on what you consider to be the high priority areas for you and your teaching colleagues and students, in the following areas:

1. Subject
2. Qualification
3. Awarding body
4. Level

Please feedback your comments to andrew.jackson@jisc.ac.uk no later than the end of the day on Friday 14 January.

We realise this is a quick turnaround, but want to ensure your views are taken into account in the call-out document that ProQuest will send to publishers on Monday 17th January.

We hope this will remove some of the burdensome time commitments of previous years, particularly for the procurement Focus Group. ProQuest do not ask publishers for specific titles, but for titles which are relevant to the four numbered elements above, so the process will be the same from that point of view. We have already ensured the ProQuest call-out document contains a request for T Level titles (for current courses and those beginning in September) and ESOL titles.

VLR re-design: teaching staff wanted

The FE and Skills Content Team are currently looking at how we might re-design our Vocational Learning Resources and we would like to interview teaching practitioners to better understand what issues and challenges they face when using digital learning content.

We are particularly interested in hearing from teaching staff who teach a subject related to our current Vocational Learning Resources content (e.g. Construction, Digital and IT, Education and Childcare, Hairdressing and Health and Social Care) and use some form digital learning content as part of their teaching practice.

The interviews will take around 30-45 minutes and will take place on Zoom. Please do let your teaching staff know about this opportunity, and for more information please click here: https://feandskillscontent.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2022/01/07/vocational-learning-resources-redesign-project/

Top 20 users in December 2021

Well done to all organisations who reached a spot in the top 20.

Rank	Organisation	User sessions
1	New City College London	3342
2	South Thames College	1893
3	LTE Group	1810
4	Brighton, Hove and Sussex Sixth Form College	1766
5	The Sixth Form College Farnborough	1657
6	Varndean College	1588
7	West Nottinghamshire College	1338
8	Hereford Sixth Form	1327
9	Bedford College	1271
10	East Kent College Group	1219
11	The Trafford College Group	1162
12	Grŵp Llandrillo Menai	1154
13	West Herts College	1093
14	South and City College Birmingham	1018
15	Newham Sixth Form College	993
16	The College of Richard Collyer in Horsham	948
17	Coventry College	943
18	Truro and Penwith College	923
19	Coleg Cambria	916
20	Bradford College	914

 Mergers: If your organisation has recently merged with another, ProQuest may not have the most current merger information and your merger may not be reflected in the usage data. Please check with ProQuest and request that they update your account to reflect the merger. Their e-book support contact address is: ebooksupport@proquest.com

Top 20 titles in December 2021

Rank	Title	User sessions
1	CACHE Technical Level 3 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care	7860
2	CACHE Level 3 Child Care and Education: Early Years Educator	4446
3	BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 1	4053
4	BTEC Nationals Business Student Book 1: For the 2016 Specifications	2690
5	BTEC Nationals Applied Science Student Book 1	2622
6	AQA A-Level Business	2351
7	BTEC Nationals Business Student Book 2: For the 2016 Specifications	2230
8	AQA A-Level Biology (Year 1 and Year 2)	1749
9	BTEC National Construction Student Book: For the 2017 Specifications	1722
10	CACHE Level 2 Diploma for the Early Years Practitioner	1701
11	BTEC Level 3 Nationals Applied Science Student Book 2	1661
12	CACHE Level 2 Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care	1643
13	BTEC Nationals Health and Social Care Student Book 2: For the 2016 specifications	1581
14	Psychology: the Science of Mind and Behaviour (8th edition)	1182
15	AQA A-Level Geography: For A-level and AS (4th edition)	1050
16	BTEC Nationals Sport and Exercise Science Student Book	1007
17	OCR Psychology for A-Level Book 1	988
18	Anatomy and Physiology (5th edition)	950
19	BTEC Nationals Information Technology Student Book	949
20	Global Politics for A-Level	941

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