Product Description: The Living Library describes the evolution of one possible future for academic libraries: as laboratories for cross-disciplinary investigation. At the University of Maryland, a collaboration among the Libraries, the School of Architecture and the Department of Anthropology led to the participation of students, faculty and staff in an initiative to design a full renovation of the main library building with the guidance of professionals in anthropology and architecture...read more

Product Description: Studying Students: A Second Look presents the results of further ethnographic projects within the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries. Topics range from how college students learn the ropes to their use of technology and how they study and write their research papers...read more

Product Description: As part of the development of eXtensible Catalog (XC), a project sponsored by the University of Rochester's River Campus Libraries, four institutions conducted eighty interviews and numerous workshops to understand how researchers learn about, acquire, and use scholarly resources...read more

Product Description: Studying Students: The Undergraduate Research Project at the University of Rochester provides a view into the groundbreaking application of ethnographic tools and techniques to the understanding of undergraduate students and their use of information...read more