A PR From The University of Rachester: The University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries will take the lead in studying how best to develop an open-source online system that can unify access to traditional and digital library resources. With a $283,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the University will begin planning and requirements analysis activities for a new system known as eXtensible Catalog (XC).
XC has the potential to allow future library users at any level of proficiency to get more out of academic library collections and to give academic libraries more control over how best to help people gather information. As envisioned, XC’s simple yet powerful interface will allow users to navigate through comprehensive search results sorted into useful categories that will give them the resources they seek more easily.
Grants for Everyone
Hey how do I get on of those sweet Mellon grants?
Yeah I know, I’d have to be a faculty person, etc.at a large university…blah blah blah…but hey my ideas are as good as theirs ;).
By the way, what are the results after the big money is spent…do they create anything useful outside of the halls of ivy????
Yeah, I know. Probably. But I could create something
really useful too and still have money left for a vacat…oops…serious professional er conference.
Like what for example?