Browsing YUL research and professional contributions by Author "cd7f116a2714cc247be9a06b3c362073"
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After Launching Search and Discovery, Who Is Mission Control?
Denton, William; Taves, Adam (2010-10-15)Reference librarians are whiny and demanding. Systems librarians are arrogant and rude. Users are clueless and uninformed. A new discovery layer means that they need to collaborate to build it and then — the next ... -
At Their Fingertips: Customized Library Resources in Course Management Systems and Student Portals
Coysh, Sarah J.; Denton, William (2009-06-06)Portals and Course Management Systems such as Moodle bring together resources students need. Why not also include library resources to increase library-student communication? York University librarians have capitalized ... -
Behind the Scenes at a Search Engine
Denton, William (2008-03-20)An introduction to how search engines work and how they decide what to show on their results pages. Power Point slides for a talk given in York University Libraries' Research Frontiers series. -
Divisiveness, Communication Failure, and Boundary Wars as Tragicomedy
Denton, William; Taves, Adam (2011-06-21)Reference librarians are whiny and demanding. Systems librarians are arrogant and rude. Users are clueless and uninformed. A new discovery layer means that they need to collaborate to build it and then--the next ... -
FRBR and the History of Cataloging
Denton, William (Libraries Unlimited, 2007-11-30)An explanation of where FRBR (Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records) comes from, given by a look at the work of librarians such as Panizzi, Cutter, Ranganathan, and Lubetzky, and an examination of four themes ... -
Libraries and Archives Augmenting the World
Denton, William (ALA TechSource, 2014-05) -
MATH 4400 (History of Mathematics) library session
Denton, William (2016-01-11) -
MATH 5400 (History of Mathematics) library session
Denton, William (2016-01-12) -
A Modest Proposal for a More Efficient Organizational Decision-Making Effectiveness Structure at York University Libraries
Denton, William (2013-07-12)I propose a new committee to speed up decision-making and increase organizational effectiveness. I realize there will be objections to the creation of yet another committee, but please read on: this committee obviates the ... -
One Big Library
Allison-Cassin, Stacy; Denton, William (2009-01-30)As Wendy Newman says, it looks like there are many different kinds of libraries (public, academic, school, national, medical, special) but really there's just One Big Library with branches all over the world. We cover the ... -
The One Big Library Unconference
Allison-Cassin, Stacy; Denton, William (Ontario Library Association, 2008)A summary of what happened at the One Big Library Unconference held in Toronto, Ontario, on 27 June 2008. -
Ordering Things
Coysh, Sarah J.; Denton, William; Sloniowski, Lisa (Library Juice Press, 2018-03-01) -
Review of Implementing FRBR in Libraries: Key Issues and Future Directions, by Yin Zhang and Athena Salaba
Denton, William (2010-09-16) -
SPLURGE: Scholars Portal Library Usage-Based Recommendation Generation Engine
Denton, William; Metcalf, Cameron; Bowrin, Kevin (2012-10-20)We will outline the birth and delivery of SPLURGE (Scholars Portal Library Usage-based Recommendation Generation Engine). SPLURGE came about as an idea to build up a book title recommendation service by pooling circulation ... -
Usability Testing of VuFind at an Academic Library
Denton, William; Coysh, Sarah J. (2011-03-01)The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of an academic library's implementation of a discovery layer (VuFind 1.0 RC1) as a next-generation catalogue, based on usability testing and an online survey. -
What We Talk About When We Talk About FRBR
Schneider, Jodi; Denton, William (2009-03-05)When vendors talk about FRBRization they usually mean grouping manifestations into works. When we talk about FRBR, we mean something far richer and rewarding. What FRBRization algorithms are available and in use now, how ...