Scholarly practice, participatory design, and the eXtensible catalog / Nancy Fried Foster ... [and others], editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foster, Nancy Fried.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Online library catalogs--United States--Use studies.

Online library catalogs.

Academic libraries--United States--Use studies.

Academic libraries.

Communication in learning and scholarship--Technological innovations.

Communication in learning and scholarship.

Information behavior.

Research.

Information retrieval--Research.

Information retrieval.

United States.

Information behavior--Research.

Electronic information resource searching.

Online bibliographic searching.

Libraries and scholars.

Genre:

Use studies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 156 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : Association of College and Research Libraries, 2011.

Summary:

This book reports on the eXtensible Catalog (XC) project begun at the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries. XC is a set of open-source applications developed at the University of Rochester, designed to provide patron access to resources across a range of databases, metadata schemas, and standards. For the project, site-based teams conducted 80 workplace interviews at four universities--Cornell, Ohio State, Yale, and the University of Rochester--yielding new knowledge about the research processes of students and faculty members, mainly in the humanities and social sciences but also in scientific fields. Contributors argue for the value of developing services, spaces, and tools in collaboration with the people who will actually use them. The research sheds light on how faculty members use journal literature, archives, and special collections, and the personal management of scholarly information. There is no subject index. Foster directs anthropological research for the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780838985748

0838985742

OCLC:

716068728