Scholarly practice, participatory design, and the eXtensible catalog

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    • Foster, Nancy Fried

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Scholarly practice, participatory design, and the eXtensible catalog

Nancy Fried Foster ... [et al.], editors

Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011

  • : pbk. : alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

  • Why do user research for the eXtensible catalog project? / Nancy Fried Foster, Jennifer Bowen, and David Lindahl, University of Rochester
  • Stumbling blocks and their workarounds in the research process / Gabriela Castro Gessner and Wendy Wilcox, Cornell University
  • Networking and the changing environment for academic research / Maureen Donovan, Ohio State University Libraries
  • How faculty members use journal literature : do not assume
  • just ask / Katie Clark, University of Rochester
  • The use of archives and special collections / Melissa S. Mead, University of Rochester
  • Personal management of scholarly information / Kaila Bussert, Kathy Chiang, and Kornelia Tancheva, Cornell University

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Description

As part of the development of eXtensible Catalog (XC), a project sponsored by the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries, four institutions conducted 80 interviews and numerous workshops to understand how researchers learn about, acquire, and use scholarly resources. Research findings informed the design and development of XC, a set of open-source applications that provides access to resources across a range of databases, metadata schemas, and standards. In this volume, members of the project team report on key findings of the user research that was done at Cornell University, Ohio State University, the University of Rochester, and Yale University, and discuss the value of including library users and technology specialists from many disciplines in the software design and development process. This book is appropriate for academic librarians, academic libraries, schools of information science and librarianship, library educators, and researchers.

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