Description: This poster presentation discusses the Denton Declaration, an open data manifesto, and describes the process of developing the Declaration.

Description: 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.

Description: This presentation discusses adapting to change using ILLiad. Abstract: Interlibrary Loan at the University of North Texas Libraries has experienced many changes during the past year. We've organized into the Access Services Department, moved to a new office, and incorporated fresh techniques for providing customer service. This session will describe how we have incorporated changes through ILLiad, through services for our customers, and by cooperation among Access Services staff. Examples: Implementing Article Exchange and Odyssey for Lending, starting a faculty book delivery service, and loaning media items through ILL.

Description: This paper discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. Abstract: In 2008 five United States institutions collaborated to archive the U.S. federal government Web presence: the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, the Government Printing Office, and the University of North Texas (UNT). Their objective was to document the changes coincident with the shift in leadership of the U.S. executive branch. The five partners identified key resources from the U.S. .gov Top Level Domain and completed crawls from September 2008 until March 2009. The resulting End of Term (EOT) 2008 Web Archive, a 16 TB dataset, was distributed to partners interested in providing local services and access to the archive. The UNT Libraries investigated Portable Document Format (PDF) files, a class of content many information professionals associate with the traditional notion of “discrete documents”. Over four million unique PDF documents were extracted from the Archive and a series of metadata and information extraction processes were conducted for each document. Additionally, derivative raster images of the first page of each document were created. These metrics were ingested into a database for further analysis, which brought to light previously hidden characteristics of the ...

Description: This presentation discusses issues for law libraries and how law libraries can capture and preserve government web resources. It gives a background and new issues encountered when collecting web published resources, research, and collection development planning tools.