Am getting ready to go to the Nancy Fried Foster-led CLIR Intermediate Workshop on Participatory Design in Academic Libraries at Goucher College later this week, and am looking forward to it — a lot! In addition to what I’ll learn, I know I’ll enjoy the manner of learning: Nancy instills confidence while she’s passing on pearls of participatory wisdom. Thought I’d share with you our beforehand reading for the workshop, since I think it may be of interest. It’s:
Chapter I of Scholarly Practice, Participatory Design and the eXtensible Catalog: “Why Do User Research for the eXtensible Catalog Project?” by Nancy Fried Foster, Jennifer Bowen and David Lindahl. (http://hdl.handle.net/1802/12375) and
Chapter 6 of Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester: “Photo Surveys: Eliciting More Than You Knew to Ask For” by Judi Briden. (http://hdl.handle.net/1802/7520)
Further optional reading is: Judi Briden and Ann Marshall, “Snapshots of laptop use in an academic library,” Library Hi Tech 28, no. 3 (2010): 447.
A colleague and I facilitated a participatory design session back here at home after the Introductory workshop, and I’ll be bringing back everything I learn this time (or as much of it as I can get into my laptop) to share with others. I’ll probably provide a summary here on the blog, too. So tune in later this week for updates!
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