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- Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management
- Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes the roles of metadata in facilitating the ETD lifecycle, methods to capture metadata manually and automatically, examples of programs using metadata to enhance ETD access, and strategies to manage metadata over time.
- Reengineering The Portal to Texas History
- This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
- Theses and Dissertations from Print to ETD: The Nuances of Preserving and Accessing Those in Music
- Book chapter discussing the unique challenges of digitizing music theses and dissertations.
- "The Silicon Dream": Breaking Glass on the Small Screen
- Book chapter discussing the Brian Gibson film "Breaking Glass" and the author's experiences viewing the film and thoughts about the impressions it made.
- Facilitating Discovery and Use of Digital Cultural Heritage Resources with Folksonomies: A Review
- This article explores the strengths and limitations of folksonomies through traditional indexing and taxonomies with an emphasis on the history of cultural heritage information retrieval.
- Characteristics of Tweets about African Cultural Heritage
- This article investigates broad characteristics of tweets about African cultural heritage with possible implications for marketing by cultural heritage administrators and other stakeholders.
- The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan Library
- Book chapter on the evolution of publishing agreements at the University of Michigan Library. Taking as an example an open-access journal with a single editor, this chapter discusses the various configurations of rights agreements used by the University of Michigan Library throughout the evolution of its publishing operation, the advantages of the various models, and the reasons for moving from one to another.
- HAM: A Hybrid Aquisitions Model for Public Libraries
- This book chapter discusses how to operationalize acquisitions through a discussion of various models of acquisitions, encompassing budgeting, working with vendors, selection, ordering, receiving, processing, and overall administration of the process.
- Out of the Oven and into the (Reusable) Bag: Sous-Vide Book Delivery
- This is a section of The Sustainable Library's Cookbook, which is a collection of sustainable activities for academic libraries. This particular section explores sustainable practices in the Access Services Department at the University of North Texas.
- Tower Cakes for Ranking Subscription Resources
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing a method to evaluate subscription-based resources based on objective data and subjective input.
- Open (Flu) Season: A Case Study of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia
- Book chapter discussing a project by the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine (CHM) in partnership with the University of Michigan Library's MPublishing division, to create an open source digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States.
- Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
- Book chapter on maintaining quality metadata and effective digital resource lifecycle management.
- Hiring and Training Graduate Assistants for the Academic Library
- Book chapter discussing hiring and training graduate assistants for the academic library.
- The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
- This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
- Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions
- This book chapter discusses digital collection preservation. The authors provide a philosophical base for cultural memory organizations' need to participate in distributed digital preservation solutions as community-owned and community-led initiatives. This chapter will be useful for all readers, particularly those with questions about the value of collaborative engagement in the digital arena for cultural memory organizations.
- Collaborating with Your Local Public Library
- This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
- A Voice of Their Own—Letting Library Collections Tell Their Story: The UNT Libraries Collection Map
- This chapter describes the development and use of a unique collection assessment tool, the Collection Map, to track the needs of academic disciplines and their fulfillment.
- Performance Practice: Crafting a Historically Informed Interpretation of Nouvelles Poésies
- This book chapter discusses performance practice and crafting a historically informed interpretation of "Nouvelles Poésies."
- Skins and Bones: The Horror of the Real
- This book chapter examines the ways in which horror, as an aesthetic mode or sentiment, is bound to an experiential perception of "the real."
- Guide to Options for ETD Programs
- Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes ETD access policies and intellectual property issues, deposit procedures, repository system options, ETD program management and ETD program services.
- Teaming up with Your Graduate School for Academic and Career Success
- As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate student community are essential. This chapter describes how the Library Research Support Services Department (LRSS) of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has collaborated with The Toulouse Graduate School (TGS) to support graduate students through the process of achieving the following three milestones: (1) writing the dissertation or thesis proposal, (2) completing the writing of the dissertation or thesis, and (3) developing an elevator speech for potential employers.
- Stop Folding the Dough: Intervening to Decide Whether or Not to Assess Again
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of the Assessment Workgroup at the University of North Texas Libraries.
- Rendering Repositories: Taking out the Fat and Getting to the Impact
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how to survey users for understanding the perceived value of digital library collections.
- Rubrics and Rutabagas: Only One is Useful for Assessing Staff During Evaluations
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how rubrics can be used for discussing employee performance expectations and evaluations.
- Professional Development Assessment Paella
- This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of a professional development program at University of North Texas Libraries.
- A snare in every human path: "Tamerlane" and the Paternal Scapegoat
- This book chapter examines Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Tamerlane" through Poe's reimagination of the artist-as-scapegoat figure as a viable alternative for preserving artistic integrity in the face of paternal and literary authority.
- Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library
- Book chapter discussing mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library.
- Scholarly Communications Librarian
- The Future Academic Librarian’s Toolkit is a thorough handbook designed to guide future academic librarians from library school through first several years. This chapter specifically focused on scholarly communications librarian, which is a relatively recent area of professional focus for academic librarians.
- Educating the Community: Preserving Tomorrow's Treasures Today
- This book chapter discusses educating communities. and preserving tomorrow's treasures today. Librarians, curators, archivists, and volunteers work hard to conserve and preserve materials as they are added to their collections, insuring that the materials can be safely used. However, not all genealogical and historical information is held in cultural institutions; unknown numbers of valuable information sources reside with individuals and in residences. By educating the community today on how to protect the treasures in their care, we have the potential to minimize the repairs needed for these items in the future.
- The Power of Images: From Postmodern Art to Memes
- This chapter examines the elements of visual grammar used in advertising media and postmodern art that is now used to create powerful memes.
- Providing Open Access to Heterogeneous Information Resources without Compromising Privacy and Data Confidentiality
- Book chapter discussing challenges raised by concerns about ensuring long-term access to digital resources verses data confidentiality and balancing the right level of data security that addresses compliance requirements in the context of libraries and cultural heritage institutions.
- Open Access Initiatives in Ethiopia's Higher Learning Institutions
- Book chapter outlining the state of OA policies and practices in Ethiopia's higher learning institutions.
- Preface [of the Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications]
- Preface of the Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications. The Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications articulates OA concepts and issues while demystifying the state-of-the-art knowledge domain in the areas of OA and scholarly communications from diverse perspectives as well as implications for the information and knowledge society.
- The Role of Open Access in Enhancing Equitable Curricula and Research Outputs: Global Context
- Book chapter exploring the changing publishing paradigms, particularly the role of OA and how increasing open dissemination of scholarly outputs can reduce inequities in curricula and research activities.
- Engaging with the IR Remotely
- Book chapter exploring approaches and methods of engaging with an institutional repository (IR) remotely.
- A Journal of One's Own: Developing an Innovative, Values-Driven Open Journal
- Book chapter sharing the authors' experiences with establishing a values-driven open journal and look at ways these values can be incorporated into the bones of a journal.