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Collaborating on Scholarship

Description: The presentation examines the considerations and processes for collaborating on scholarship from the perspective of academic librarians. It includes how to choose team members, facilitate collaboration and organize all the elements of a project to create a successful publication or presentation. Also included are administrative responsibilities, thoughts on handling problems, and examples of delineating responsibilities. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference hel… more
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian
Partner: UNT Libraries

Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey

Description: Poster presented at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses open source software tools coded with AutoHotkey that the UNT digital libraries group has developed for digital curation during the pre-ingest stage of the digital resource lifecycle.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Weidner, Andrew; Wilson, Robert John & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries

From New to Noteworthy: The Scholarly Impact Service at the University of North Texas

Description: This poster presents the Scholarly Impact Service at the University of North Texas from its start in the summer of 2017 to its more established position by October 2020. The overview includes some of the resources used by the team of librarians, including their library guide, consultation checklist, and promotional flyer. It was presented at the Bibliometrics and Research Assessment Symposium which was held virtually by the National Institutes of Health Library on October 7-9, 2020.
Date: October 7, 2020
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

[Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard]

Description: Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata." In includes examples of dates that meet Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards, examples of problems encountered when normalizing date displays for users, additional statistics related to already-valid dates in the digital collections at the time that the standards were formally adopted, and links to online materials.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

[Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports]

Description: Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort." In includes a brief overview of the project, a list of hardware and software used in the project, and a detailed list of the steps for each stage of the process (Inventory, Scanning, Processing, Metadata, and Upload).
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Willis, Shannon
Partner: UNT Libraries

High-Quality Diet of Journals: Comparison of Top-ranked with Most-used Journals at a Large Academic Library

Description: Presentation is a follow-up on work from the UNT Libraries regarding compiled data from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and its comparison to UNT holdings. Journal usage data has been added to provide a more complete answer to the original question posed previously. The presentation focuses less on the technology and steps for gathering this data, and more on the results and the limitations of such an analysis. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on Au… more
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Byrne, Sephra & Harker, Karen
Partner: UNT Libraries

How Digital Libraries can Create a Culture of Open Access on Campus

Description: Presentation for a panel discussion at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This panel presentation discusses how digital libraries can create a culture of open access on campus. Five panelists discuss their perspectives, strategies, challenges, and progress.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Najmi, Anjum; Waugh, Laura; Helge, Kris; Stark, Shannon & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Managing Change Through Teamwork: UNT Libraries' Transition to Access-Based Collection Development

Description: Presentation contains information on University of North Texas Libraries' move to increase access-based collection development. The presentation includes a plan that will increase collaboration between internal and external library employees in order to prevent the furthering of silos between Public Services and Technical Services. The presentation also mentions tips on structure, implementation tools, organization, and information sharing. This presentation was given at the Cross Timbers Libra… more
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Crawford, Laurel; Condrey, Coby; Miller, Erin & Rowe, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries

Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region's Maps Online

Description: This poster discusses the Mapping the Southwest Project, involving putting our region's maps online. The poster includes background information on the project, the project plan, workflow and equipment, and the impacts and lessons learned.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Jones, Jerrell; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Phillips, Mark Edward; Hodges, Ann; Huseman, Ben et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Metadata and XML

Description: This presentation discusses how XML can help store metadata. The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit developed the UNTL metadata element set with IndexData that tailored the data to meet their needs.
Date: November 7, 2003
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries

Multiplying by Division: Mapping the Collection at University of North Texas Libraries

Description: Presentation given at the Charleston Conference on November 7, 2015 This presentation focuses on the University of North Texas Libraries' Collection Map, a collection assessment tool used to provide additional data and increased flexibility. The presentation centers on "an assessment-based future" for UNT Libraries and details an improved system in which collections are proactively assessed.
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Harker, Karen; Klein, Janette & Crawford, Laurel
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action

Description: This paper discusses how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. It delves into some of the reasons why this convent is not yet preserved, and examines the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type.
Date: June 7, 2016
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine; Wilson, Marc & Zarndt, Frederick
Partner: UNT Libraries

One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Dataset

Description: This dataset represents the first million pages of Texas newspapers added to The Portal to Texas History as part of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. The dataset consists of 123,184 newspaper issues from 569 titles, comprising 1,000,003 pages. Additionally the 3,349,156 item uses associated with this dataset as of April 7, 2013 are included.
Date: April 7, 2013
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries
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