**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 to develop
open source software 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.
Jennifer Bowen
Assistant Dean, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries
Co-Executive Director, eXtensible Catalog Organization, LLC
Received on Tue May 10 2011 - 15:55:20 EDT