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Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners: This column article discusses how academic librarians can assist with increasing student retention in STEM fields.
Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships: This paper focuses on how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries was able to develop a successful partnership with the UNT Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) and move outside the Libraries’ normal sphere of influence to help create a patent internship program for students. The paper is published in the Texas Library Journal Special Edition for Summer 2020, and it was a contributed paper at the Texas Library Association 2020 Virtual Summer of Learning conference.
Access to Geographical Information in Library Catalogs: a Case Study: Conference paper exploring three case studies on how methods of retrieval of geographic data offered by libraries. The online catalog (Case no. 1) includes various materials available to users. Case no. 2 is Special Collections in general, including the Portal to Texas History. Case no. 3 is a particular collection digitized by UNT: The map collection of the University of Texas at Arlington.
Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?: This article discusses the financial sustainability of scholarly publishing and libraries, based off the author's presentation given at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2016 Satellite Meeting on Libraries as Publishers: Building a Global Community.
The Action of Action Research: A Case Study of Four Projects in a Professional Development School: Introductory paper to the special section on education in the 2010 edition of The Eagle Feather, which examines the viability of action research as a meaningful form of research applicable to social settings, such as schools.
Advances in academic video game collections: This article discusses how the UNT Media Library developed a video game collection to support student retention, student recreation, and classroom instruction. The article also will explain how the Library successfully met challenges involved in collection development, related technology, space needs, and the challenges it sees ahead.
After-math: Counting the Aftereffects of Potentially Spiritually Transformative Experiences: Abstract: This article provides a summary of current literature regarding the nature of spiritual development, types of potentially spiritually transformative experiences (pSTEs), and both short- and long-term aftereffects of pSTEs— biological, psychological, spiritual, and social. The author concludes that in the aftermath of pSTEs, experiencers, their intimates and associates, and their healthcare providers should be prepared to experience integration that can be manageable or be deeply challenging and that can be relatively brief or can last for years.
American Society for Indexing Conferences: An Analysis of Major Topics, 1997-2011: Article offering an analysis of major topics at the American Society for Indexing Conferences from 1997 through 2011.
Analysis of URL References in ETDs: A Case Study at the University of North Texas: Article discussing a case study at the University of North Texas (UNT) on an analysis of URL references in electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Aquiline Books at UNT: A Progress Report: Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In June 2015, the UNT Libraries launched a for-fee service for publishing works of scholarship from authors affiliated with the university. While authors can choose from a menu of editing and design options, all publications are made free to read online through the institutional repository. In this presentation, we reflect on our choices in designing the publishing service—such as not organizing peer review, delivering publications through the repository, requiring free public access but not Creative Commons licenses—and on what authors have chosen from the menu of options over the past two years.
Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers: Article discussing archiving web-published materials and a needs assessment of librarians, researchers, and content providers.
Are We There Yet? Toward a Workable Controlled Vocabulary for Music: This article discusses moving toward a workable controlled vocabulary for music.
Art book indexes reviewed: Article discussing index characteristics considered important by reviewers of art books.
Artificial Intelligence, Libraries, and Information Retrieval: Article discussing artificial intelligence, libraries, and information retrieval.
ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012: Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.
Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program: This article describes how measures of need, participation, satisfaction, and impact are employed to assess many aspects of a professional development program in a large academic library.
Assessment in Fieldwork Courses: What Are We Rating?: This article uses inductive content analysis to assess fieldwork evaluations in library school coursework.
Assessment of Cataloging Services in an Academic Library: This article contains survey data on cataloging services as assessed by personnel in the Public Services Division and the Catalog and Metadata Services Department.
Associations Between Psychopathy and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale in Incarcerated Males: A Combined Latent Variable- and Person-Centered Approach: Article describes study which sought to replicate and extend current knowledge on the relevance of emotion regulation (ER) for psychopathy, focusing on a sample of incarcerated adult males.
Automated Creation of Analytic Catalog Records for Born-Digital Journal Articles: Article summarizing the approach to bibliographic metadata development at the University of Michigan Library for journal articles published and archived in HathiTrust.
Becoming an Associate Dean: A Librarian’s Tale of Lessons Learned: Article shares the leadership lessons learned by a librarian who once served as a faculty member but then became an Associate Dean. Transitioning from a faculty role to an administrative one creates a landscape of learning that promotes growth and exposes challenges. This is the submitted/accepted manuscript version of the article.
A beginner’s guide to library association service: This article explains the immediate and long-term benefits of service to new librarians. It also covers finding and selecting service opportunities, serving effectively in those roles, and documenting service activities. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article.
Best Practices for Librarians Embedded in Online Courses: Article discussing research on embedded librarian services in collaboration with faculty in online courses.
Beyond Scholarly Communications: The Role of Open Access in Facilitating Digital Preservation: This paper is paired with the presentation slides of the same title.
Beyond “Set It and Forget It”: Proactively Managing Your EZproxy Server: This article describes a half-day pre-conference workshop focused on the ins and outs of managing an EZproxy server. The presenter shared detailed information on how to use the EZproxy admin page to help reduce patrons’ barriers to access and identify potential security concerns. She also covered current topics of interest to the EZproxy community, such as how to modify database stanzas to support https.
Biography indexes reviewed: Article discussing research on biography reviews and indexes.
Bradstreet, Anne Dudley (1612-1672): Encyclopedia article on American poet Anne Dudley Bradstreet.
Briefing the Case: Constitution Day Outreach to Campus and Community: Article discussing Constitution Day outreach to campuses and communities.
Building a Better Librarian: Why Your Work As A Librarian Begins LONG Before Your Graduate Program: This articles discusses why ones work as a librarian begins long before their graduate program.
A Case of Jekyll and Hub: Conference proceedings of a revised script for a presentation describing the process to create an annotated bibliography using GitHub so multiple users could access and contribute to it. The authors share some background, learning resources, problems, and how to contribute to the GitHub site.
Cataloging for Makerspaces: Although many school libraries include makerspaces, their catalogs do not always provide information about makerspace resources. Cataloging these resources can benefit school library users and staff in several ways. This article argues that how cataloging increases the visibility of the makerspace collection not only by making the items accessible for catalog users, but also facilitating browsing by collocating similar resources.
Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA: This article discusses changes in music cataloguing systems.
The Challenge of Multimedia Networking: Article reviewing texts that examine both the promise and peril of developing networked multimedia systems.
Collaborating on Scholarship: Best Practices for Team Research Projects: Article on collaborating on scholarship. Collaborating on scholarship has the potential to provide many advantages, including benefiting from others’ expertise, reinforcing accountability, and providing motivation. However, working with others is tricky—consider compatible work habits, receptivity to criticism, and commitment to fulfill responsibilities. Decisions to be made include where to publish, in what order authors’ names will appear, and how the manuscripts will be written. Who will coordinate? Who will write what? Who will revise? Also, consider how to address problems—missed deadlines, less-than-stellar quality, how to say “no” in the future, and more. This version is the authors' manuscript.
Collaboration in scholarly communication: Opportunities to normalize open access: This article discusses scholarly communication from a holistic perspective and includes some strategies implemented at University of North Texas Libraries.
Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative: This article offers a comparison of strategies and policies for building distributed digital preservation infrastructure.
Computational studies of the potential energy surface for O(³P) + H₂S: Characterization of transition states and the enthalpy of formation of HSO and HOS: Article on computational studies of the potential energy surface for O(³P) + H₂S and the characterization of transition states and the enthalpy of formation of HSO and HOS.
Connecting Constituents to Government Information: 150 Years of Congressionally Designated Libraries: Article on connecting constituents to government information and 150 years of congressionally designated libraries.
Consequences of Internal Ethnic Political Conflict: Introduction to the special section on political science in the 2006 edition of The Eagle Feather
A cooperative for big data in scholarly publishing: Presented at the 2017 Public Knowledge Project International Scholarly Publishing Conference. This lightning talk presents a vision for a cooperative of stakeholder institutions called the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.
Copyright, Digital Media, and Libraries: Article offering a brief bibliography on the subject of copyright and digital media in the context of libraries.
Copyright, Open Access, and Library Instruction: Article discussing copyright, open access, and library instruction.
Councilor's Report: 2006 Annual Conference - New Orleans: This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in 2006, which took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Information about the topics discussed and issues that were brought up are included.
Councilor's Report: 2006 Midwinter Meeting - San Antonio: This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter meeting in 2006, which was held in San Antonio. The discussions include an increase in dues and several resolutions.
Creating a Faculty Book Delivery Service: Supporting Faculty Research: Article on creating a faculty book delivery service and supporting faculty research.
Creating a Library Publishing Program for Scholarly Books: Your Options Are Limited: This commentary article discusses the key questions to be addressed before establishing a library publishing program for scholarly books.
Creating a Sustainable Professional Development Program: Article describing a professional development program for academic librarians at a large research university that has been operating continuously for eight years. Multiple components of the program and their related practices and procedures contribute to its longevity and continuing relevance for librarians.
Creating Open Access to a Historic Newspaper from an International Port City [Article]: Article exploring a collaboration between the University of North Texas' The Portal to Texas History and the Rosenberg Library to archive and provide digital, open access to Galveston's newspapers. It was published as part of the conference proceedings from 87th IFLA World Library and Information Congress (WLIC) held in 2022.
Culinary Indexers' Reference Sources: In this article, the author presents a bibliography of reference sources recommended by culinary indexers.
Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Open Access and BIG Data: Issues and Considerations: Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2019 pre-conference held on October 19, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The panelists discussed cybersecurity challenges and provided an assessment of the cybersecurity issues related to open access and big data.

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