Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?
Date: July 10, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Description: This presentation discusses the costs and values of digital collections. It looks at the digital collections held at the University of North Texas (UNT) and does a cost comparison of the options based on their choices including the expenses that are related to building their digital collections.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Briefing the Case: Constitution Day Outreach to Campus and Community
Date: 2012
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
Description: This article discusses Constitution Day outreach to campus and community. The celebration of Constitution Day (or Citizenship Day) on September 17th each year began in 2005 as a mandate for all publicly funded educational institutions to provide instructive activities that recognize the adoption of the United States Constitution in 1787 (U.S. Department of Education). There are many creative and engaging ways to commemorate the signing of our Constitution. The University of North Texas has its own traditions, which are shared in this document along with some other resources and ideas to get others started on Constitution Day celebrations at their own institutions.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Brown bag on iConference - 2013
Date: March 5, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This presentation was created for a brown bag luncheon about the 2013 iConference. It includes discussion on participants, the venues, programs, the role of the UNT Libraries, and reflections on the event.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Building a Better Librarian: Why Your Work As A Librarian Begins LONG Before Your Graduate Program
Date: July 2012
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.
Description: This articles discusses why ones work as a librarian begins long before their graduate program. The field of librarianship has undergone dramatic changes in the past 5 years; perhaps most notably in the number and type of open positions, as well as the job application process itself. Numbers point to a bleak market, and countless blogs lament the situation while offering never ending "to do lists" for the aspiring librarian. The author offers her own suggestions from personal experience; tools that she not only developed to secure a promising position at a prestigious university library in her chosen area, but also continue to use in her present position in anticipation of advancement. This piece is directed to those aspiring librarians seeking advice on the perilous journey ahead, as well as to the author's peers; the colleagues, supervisors, and mentors of aspiring librarians who seek to offer the same assistance we have all benefited from in the past.
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Building Digital Archives
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Description: This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections
Date: May 31, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation describes the infrastructure and collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital initiatives. This discusses issues related to searching and explains possible solutions to best enhance metadata and searching capabilities.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA
Date: September 2012
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Description: This article discusses cataloguing in 2012. Abstract: The major looming changes in music cataloguing today-the cataloguing code 'Resource Description and Access' (RDA); a system of genre/form and medium terms, to be used as "subjects;" and a not-yet-determined replacement for the encoding system MARC-result from a concern for the needs of the user. The first thorough, systematic analysis of user needs was 'Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR).' RDA is designed around the conceptual framework presented in that document. Similarly concerned with user needs is the new system of genre/form and medium terms that will soon replace the current workaround of using "subject headings" for what an item 'is', instead of only for what an item is 'about.' Because catalogue data created according to RDA cannot be adequately expressed in the current MARC format, another initiative is underway to develop a new encoding framework to replace MARC.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Challenge of Multimedia Networking
Date: 1993
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Description: This article discusses the challenge of multimedia networking. There is no question that computer applications such as word processing, electronic mail, and desktop publishing have changed the way people work. These computer applications have enhanced users' capacity for communication and have improved their productivity. The success of these applications has prompted both vendors and researchers to continue to seek new ways to further advance the information technology revolution. Enter the latest innovation: networked multimedia systems.
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Challenges in Web Archiving UNT Perspective
Date: July 21, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Description: This presentation discusses making Web archives more usable for libraries, building digital library collections from Web content, and understanding how Web archives should fit into traditional library metrics.
Contributing Partner: UNT Libraries
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Chronicles in Preservation: Curation Practices for Born-Digital and Digitized Newspaper Collections
Date: April 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Walters, Tyler
Description: This presentation discusses the Chronicles in Preservation project. This project aims to study, document, and model the use of data preparation practices and distributed digital preservation frameworks to collaboratively preserve digitized and born-digital newspaper collections. This presentation gives the background of the Chronicles in Preservation project, the State of the Field report, and early findings.
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