VCU Libraries Faculty Vita

Xiaochang (Shaw) Yu

Systems Librarian (Associate Professor)
Library Information Systems, James Branch Cabell Library, 234-F
Email: xyu@vcu.edu | (804) 827-3553

Education

Ph. D. Philosophy. University of Georgia, 1995.
M.L.I.S. Library and Information Science. University of South Carolina, 1993.
M.S. Artificial Intelligence. University of Georgia, 1992.
M.A. Philosophy. University of Southern Mississippi, 1987.

Previous Professional Experience

Reference Librarian and Bibliographer
University of Northern Iowa, 1993-1996

Publications

Yu. "Media and AV" in Magazines for Libraries, 16th edition (William A. Katz, editor). NY: Bowker, 2007.

Yu. "Internet and World Wide Web" in Magazines for Libraries, 15th edition (William A. Katz, editor). NY: Bowker, 2006.

Yu and John Duke. "Authenticating Users Inside and Outside the Library: Implementing a Proxy Server." Internet Reference Services Quarterly 4 (1999).

Yu and Donald Nute. "Introduction to Defeasible Deontic Logic" in Defeasible Deontic Logic (Donald Nute). Kluwer Academic Pub., 1997.

Yu. "Advancing Reference Information Systems on the Web." Internet Reference Services Quarterly 1(3) (1996).

Presentations

"Automated thesis and dissertation processing" with John Duke. The 8th International Symposium on Electronic Theses & Dissertations, Sydney, Australia. September 2005

"XML made easy". Computers in Libraries 2003, Washington, DC. March 2003

"Utilizing an SFX parser to populate e-journal problem reports with serial data automatically" with Part of a panel discussion on innovations using SFX. SFX/MetaLib Users Group (SMUG) Meeting. June 2005

University Committee Work

Enterprise Directory Services Team. 2001-2004.

Security Workgroup. 2000-2001.

Internet Access Implementation Committee. 1999-2000.

Professional Organizations