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User Stories
User stories are a way to capture a system's functional requirements.
From Wikipedia
a user story is one or more sentences in the everyday ... language of the end user ... that captures what a user does or needs to do...
User stories are a quick way of handling customer requirements without having to create formalized requirement documents and without performing administrative tasks related to maintaining them.
For FindingAids, we write user stories to quickly and efficiently capture the 'who', 'what', 'where' and 'why' of a functional requirement.
We use two templates for writing our user stories. They are semantically the same, but some authors may prefer one or the other
- "As a who where, I what because why."
- "As a role where, I want goal/desire so that benefit."
- NYU faculty
- NYU undergraduates
- NYU graduate students
- non-NYU community
- As an NYU faculty member in New York, I want to get the full text of my discovered electronic resource so that I can continue my research.
- As a Courant faculty member in my office, I want a discovered book that's currently available delivered to the Courant library, so I can continue my research without a trip to Bobst.
Background: Faculty member in arts & sciences, been at NYU for his whole career; teaches several introductory courses a year about history of New York City.
User Story: As a faculty member, I’d like to know more about archival resources available to me for teaching purposes
Background: Kaley is a sophomore in the College of Arts and Science. She is doing a joint major in linguistics and French. As she cares about the environment, she wishes to be able to load ebooks on her iPad instead of having to make photocopies.
User Story: As a student, I’d like to be able to search in one place and get the full scope of resources, including primary resources, which my professor is really keen on me using for my research.
Background: Eric is a part time student pursuing a masters degree in Digital Media Design for Learning at Steinhardt. His technical skills are advanced. He mainly uses the library website to find known citations or check whether he can get articles he found in Google Scholar for free.
User Story: As a graduate student in DMDL, I’d like to be able to get an appointment to learn more about the cookbook collection in Fales, which I heard about from my professor, as I’m working on a multimedia project on the history of food politics in North America. Images would be very useful.
Background: Teresa is a film documentarian researching Ed Koch's life as mayor of NYC during the aids crisis. She thinks that documentaries are accessible ways to provide a snapshot of history in compelling and concise way. She is not affiliated with NYU.
User Story: Even though I’m not affiliated with NYU, I’d like to be able to see what Ed Koch information availe in your special collections terms of images and video, and see what copyright restrictions apply to potentially using the material
Background: Pete is a retired genealogist who is researching his grandfather, who was part of a union. He likes researching his family history so as to get a sense of where he came from. He is not affiliated with NYU.
User Story: I'd love to use the Tamiment collections to find out more about my granfather, via union information.