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Accessible History: Putting a Century of The Chronicles of Oklahoma Online

Description: Presentation sharing the project workflows for digitizing back issues of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. It has been published since 1921, and in 2020, the Oklahoma Historical Society partnered with the UNT Digital Library to make the back issues freely available through The Gateway to Oklahoma History. It was presented at the 2023 NASIG Conference held May 22-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Date: May 25, 2023
Creator: Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.; Scott, Megan E. & Carroll, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries

Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

Description: While technology has made producing copies of digital content almost entirely free, there is no escaping that publishing, according to most definitions of the term, still requires time and money. Any publishing service offered by a library must find a way to achieve financial sustainability—that is, operate without losing money. However, even "losing money" is a tricky concept, especially when taking into account varying definitions of operating expenses (overhead costs) under different mod… more
Date: August 12, 2016
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

Description: 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.
Date: August 18, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Adding Some Bam! Pow! Boom! to Your Outreach with Comics: A Roundtable Discussion

Description: This roundtable presentation and discussion provides an overview of outreach efforts at the UNT Libraries organized under the Comics Studies@UNT initiative from 2017-2019. It includes a discussion of the purposes and impact of doing outreach and programming using unique collections like comics & graphic novels to engage a diverse array of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural audiences, and to support ongoing research and teaching with these collections.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Martin, John Edward; Griffith, Bobby & Condrey, Coby
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Advanced Data Analytics Academic Program Review

Description: This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Advanced Data Analytics-related resources and materials to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was generated as part of the UNT Libraries’ contributions to the university’s Academic Program Reviews, which are conducted by the Accreditation office in the Division of Planning. The UNT Libraries’ Collection Assessment Department evaluated collections’ ability to meet the curricular and research needs of the a… more
Date: July 28, 2023
Creator: Harker, Karen
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Advances in academic video game collections

Description: 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.
Date: August 29, 2020
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine & Rodriguez, Allyson
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Africana Studies Collection Evaluation Report

Description: This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Africana Studies collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
Date: October 15, 2021
Creator: Harker, Karen
Partner: UNT Libraries
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After-math: Counting the Aftereffects of Potentially Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Description: 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 chall… more
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Aim for Accessibility: Creating Accessible LibGuides for Library Patrons

Description: This report documents the "Aim for Accessibility: Creating Accessible LibGuides for Library Patrons" funded through the Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes the project activities, the budget, project outcomes, other relevant results/information, best practices, and future program continuity.
Date: 2020/2021
Creator: Roy, Meranda M.; Stayton, Jennifer & Ranjit, Utsav
Partner: UNT Libraries

All-Gender Restrooms: Necessary and Possible

Description: Poster exploring the need for all-gender restrooms and the processing for implementing them in the University of North Texas Libraries' Annex building. It was presented at the University of North Texas Equity & Diversity 2023 Conference held in Denton, Texas.
Date: March 23, 2023
Creator: Peebles, Emily; Ross, Alyssa; Ericson, Lora & Brannon, Sian
Partner: UNT Libraries

Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento [Presentation]

Description: Presentation for the 2011 International Conference on Open Repositories. This presentation discusses the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the archiving of the reference URLs.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
Partner: UNT Libraries
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