**Apologies for cross-posting**

 

We are pleased to announce the release of a new book, Scholarly
Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog, based on user
research for eXtensible Catalog, available now from ACRL
[http://www.alastore.ala.org/detail.aspx?ID=3408] or Amazon
[http://tinyurl.com/3ooljvx]. As part of the development of eXtensible
Catalog (XC), a project sponsored by the University of Rochester's River
Campus Libraries, and funded by the Mellon Foundation and project
partners, four institutions conducted eighty 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.
Editors: Nancy Fried Foster, Katie Clark, Kornelia Tancheva and Rebekah
Kilzer. Authors: Jennifer Bowen, Kaila Bussert, Katherine Chiang, Katie
Clark, Maureen Donovan, Nancy Fried Foster, Gabriela Castro Gessner,
David Lindahl, Melissa S. Mead, Kornelia Tancheva and Wendy Wilcox.

 

 

Randall Cook, PMP

eXtensible Catalog Organization

University of Rochester River Campus Libraries

585-273-2042

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