A reading list is a list of reading items recommended by an academic to assist students’ acquisition of knowledge for a specific subject. Subsequently, the libraries of higher education institutions collect and assemble reading lists according to specific courses and offer the students the reading list service. However, the reading list is created based on localised intelligence, restricted to the academic’s knowledge of their field, semantics, experience and awareness of developments. This investigation aims to present the views and comments of academics, and library staff, on an envisaged aggregated reading list service, which aggregates recommended reading items from various higher education institutions. This being the aim, we build a prototype, which aggregates reading lists from different universities and showcase it to 19 academics and library staff in various higher education institutions to capture their views, comments and any recommendations. In the process, we also showcase the feasibility of collecting and aggregating reading lists, in addition to understanding the process of reading lists creation at their respective higher education institutions. The prototype successfully showcases the creation of ranked lists of reading items, authors, topics, modules and courses. Academics and library staff indicated that aggregated lists would collectively benefit the academic community. Consequently, recommendations in the form of process implementations and technological applications are made to overcome and successfully implement the proposed aggregated reading list service. This proof-of-concept demonstrates potential benefits for the academic community and identifies further challenges to overcome in order to scale it up to the implementation stage.

阅读清单是学术界推荐的阅读项目清单，以帮助学生获取特定主题的知识。随后，高等院校图书馆根据特定课程收集并整理阅读清单，为学生提供阅读清单服务。但是，阅读清单是根据本地化的情报创建的，仅限于学者对其领域，语义，经验和发展意识的了解。这项调查旨在提出学者和图书馆工作人员对设想的汇总阅读清单服务的意见和评论，该服务汇总了来自各个高等教育机构的推荐阅读项目。为此，我们构建了一个原型，它汇总了来自不同大学的阅读清单，并向各个高等教育机构的19位学者和图书馆工作人员展示，以获取他们的观点，评论和任何建议。在此过程中，除了了解各自高等教育机构创建阅读清单的过程之外，我们还展示了收集和汇总阅读清单的可行性。该原型成功展示了阅读项目，作者，主题，模块和课程的排名列表的创建。学者和图书馆工作人员表示，汇总的清单将使学术界集体受益。因此，提出了以过程实施和技术应用的形式提出的建议，以克服并成功实施建议的汇总阅读列表服务。