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University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Cooperative

Description: This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Scholarship Cooperative. This presentation describes what led to the UNT Digital Scholarship (DS) endeavor and campus planning effort, the aims and different scenarios studied, and the next steps planned.
Date: December 13, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Partner: UNT Digital Scholarship Cooperative (DiSCo)

Current Behavioral and Psychosocial Interventions for HIV/AIDS

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on AIDS. This presentation discusses recent directions in psychosocial research on HIV/AIDS in the United States.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Vosvick, Mark A.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

Geographic Distribution of HIV/AIDS in Texas

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on HIV/AIDS. This presentation discusses the geographic distribution of HIV/AIDS in Texas and the associated factors.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Oppong, Joseph R.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on HIV/AIDS. This presentation discusses HIV and AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Moore, Ami R.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service

HIV in Asia: History, Challenges, and Solutions

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on HIV/AIDS. This presentation discusses HIV in Asia, including its history, challenges, and solutions.
Date: December 1, 2011
Creator: Chng, Chwee-Lye
Partner: UNT College of Education

Gordon Knox Film Collection: Access to Three Family Collections: How'd We Do It

Description: This presentation discusses the digitization project of the Gordon Knox film collection. The University of North Texas (UNT) Media Library began working with the donors and assessing the project plan for digitizing this collection in 2007 and the films were made available in the UNT Digital Library in 2010. This presentation describes the strategies, initial challenges, processes, and lessons learned from working on this project.
Date: November 19, 2011
Creator: Stanton, Kimberly
Partner: UNT Libraries

National Status of Data Management: The DataRes and CLIR/Sloan Research Projects on Data Management Policies and Practices

Description: Presentation discussing the DataRes and the CLIR/Sloan Research Projects on data management policies and practices. This presentation discusses these two collaborating projects researching emerging policies and practices in data management. These research projects are being undertaken by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: November 1, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries

Cultural Memory and Heirloom Seeds: The Foundation of Local Food Systems

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. This presentation discusses heirloom seeds and covers information about the Foundation of Local Food Systems.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Veteto, James R.
Partner: UNT College of Public Affairs and Community Service

What's Wrong with Processed Food?

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. The topics include what processed food is, genetically-modified foods, functional foods, and the impacts of processed foods.
Date: October 24, 2011
Creator: Kaplan, David M.
Partner: UNT College of Arts and Sciences

TRAC, FDSys and putting it all together

Description: This presentation discusses TRAC, an open source web-based project management and bug tracking system, and the Federated Digital System (FDSys), an advanced digital system that authenticates, preserves, versions, and provides permanent public access to federal government information.
Date: October 18, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries

NCLB: The Myth, The History, The Reality

Description: This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on No Child Left Behind. In this presentation, the author discusses the law's impact on curricula and student learning, particularly in mathematics.
Date: October 5, 2011
Creator: Tunks, Jeanne L.
Partner: UNT College of Education

Introduction to the UNT Digital Collections

Description: Presentation on the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History. The topics include featured collections in The Portal to Texas History and in the UNT Digital Library, and the special collections of maps and their features and usage.
Date: October 1, 2011
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Partner: UNT Libraries

Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination

Description: This presentation discusses marketing and promoting a library's government documents department. The author explains the marketing strategy as consisting of the Four P's: using Passionate Pro-active Promotions and Presentations to make your documents department a destination for answers. The author offers specific examples of promotional events and items, collaboration with other organizations and libraries, and specific ways that the University of North Texas (UNT) has marketed the benefits of… more
Date: October 2011
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Partner: UNT Libraries

Organization of Long-Term Interstellar Distributed Digital Preservation Networks

Description: This presentation discusses the organization of long-term interstellar distributed digital preservation networks. Long term (centuries) management of large growing public bodies of information is both more and less understood. This presentation discusses what we can learn from current efforts to develop long term strategies for digital preservation.
Date: October 1, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries

Distributed Digital Preservation ETD Workshop

Description: This presentation is designed to provide institutions with Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) initiatives with information about preserving ETDs. In this presentation, the authors discuss ETDs and preservation needs, MetaArchive and distributed preservation, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)/MetaArchive ETD DDPN Archive, collections management for preservation, MetaArchive and its member roles and responsibilities, and the ETD Lifecycle Management Project.
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: McMillan, Gail & Halbert, Martin
Partner: UNT Libraries

Metadata Records Translation And Evaluation for Multilingual Information Access

Description: This presentation was given as an invited talk to faculty and students at Universidad AutĂłnoma del Estado de MĂ©xico (UAEM) in Toluca, Mexico. The presentation discusses research on multilingual information access and the Metadata Records Translation (MRT) Project.
Date: September 2011
Creator: Chen, Jiangping
Partner: UNT College of Information

Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Preservation

Description: This presentation discusses community-driven approaches to digital preservation. The authors state the importance of collaboration and who is collaborating and how. In addition, information on some core principles of collaborative preservation and what these look like in practice.
Date: August 12, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin & Skinner, Katherine
Partner: UNT Libraries

How to Take Better Photographs: Control Quality by Controlling the Camera

Description: In this Tech Talk presentation, the authors demonstrate simple ways to improve a photograph by making use of camera controls and by considering location, lighting, and composition. The authors will introduce basic information about using manual camera settings to control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and the authors will discuss specific "shooting" situations such as portraits, group photos, and events.
Date: July 27, 2011
Creator: Jones, Jerrell & Hall, Nathan
Partner: UNT Libraries

Collection Development and Management Issues

Description: This presentation discusses collection development and management issues. It describes considerations to keep in mind, suggestions and strategies, and ideas for successful digitization projects.
Date: July 23, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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