Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog--eEditions e-book
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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the authors
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.
Introduction
Nancy Fried Foster, Katie Clark, Kornelia Tancheva and Rebekah Kilzer
Chapter I
Why Do User Research for the eXtensible Catalog Project?
Nancy Fried Foster, Jennifer Bowen, and David Lindahl,
University of Rochester
Chapter II
Stumbling Blocks and their Workarounds in the Research Process
Gabriela Castro Gessner and Wendy Wilcox, Cornell University
Chapter III
Networking and the Changing Environment for Academic Research
Maureen Donovan, Ohio State University Libraries
Chapter IV
How Faculty Members Use Journal Literature: Do Not Assume—Just Ask
Katie Clark, University of Rochester
Chapter V
The Use of Archives and Special Collections
Melissa S. Mead, University of Rochester
Chapter VI
Personal Management of Scholarly Information
Kaila Bussert, Kathy Chiang, and Kornelia Tancheva, Cornell University
Authors and Editors