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From Common to Commons: Repurposing a Traditional Reading Room at the University of North Texas Science and Technology Library [Presentation]
Presentation for the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarians Conference. This presentation discusses repurposing a traditional reading room at the University of North Texas (UNT) Science and Technology Library.
11,664 kilometers across the sea: Bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands
Presentation for the 2013 International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Conference. This presentation discusses the LEAP program at UNT and bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands.
Building Digital Archives
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.
Making it Work, Making it Fun: Metadata in Action
This presentation discusses metadata and how to ensure quality. It illustrates how the University of North Texas (UNT) utilizes a metadata analysis tool and a metadata template creator.
Research, Rummage, and Reconnoiter: Online Exploration at The Portal to Texas History
This presentation discusses what The Portal to Texas History is and the benefits that it provides to the community and to educators. It also illustrates how to use The Portal to Texas History, shows examples of the collections, and discusses future goals.
A Cost-Benefit Approach for Describing and Processing Digital Objects
This presentation discusses the costs and benefits associated with creating the metadata and ensuring metadata quality in The Portal to Texas History.
Digitization Basics for Museums
This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and illustrates what types of items are in the collection and the resources available to museums, educators, and partners. It also discusses the future goals of The Portal to Texas History.
Teaching With The Portal to Texas History
This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how the collections and resources for educators are used to enhance learning and as teaching aids.
Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens
This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Update on Digitization at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries
This presentation gives an update on the digital collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in their Digital Collection and The Portal to Texas History in 2008.
Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)
This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2009 and the future projects planned.
Discover America's Cultural Heritage Collections on the Web
This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library collections. It also discusses the invisible internet, other Texas digital collections, other large digital collections, major digital collections in other states, subscription databases, and gives strategies for searching all of these databases.
The Portal to Texas History and Digital Projects at UNT
This presentation discusses the two digital collections in the UNT Libraries, The Portal to Texas History and the Digital Library. It discusses the benefits of these collections, how the partnerships work with organizations who contribute to the collections, and gives examples of the projects and items within these two collections.
Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)
This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2010.
Innovation and Sustainability in Digital Publishing
This presentation accompanies introductory remarks given as a panelist in the session "Publishing and Preserving OA Content" during the 2014 Open Access Symposium, "The Business and Economics of Open Access."
The Quick and the Dirty: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Database Overlap at the Journal Title Level
Presentation for the 2014 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual Conference on database overlap at the journal title level.
A Model for Integrating the Publication and Preservation of Journal Articles
Presentation for Open Repositories 2014 discussing a model for integrating the publication and preservation of journal articles.
Reference Beyond the Desk: Nontraditional Modes of Reference
This presentation discusses virtual reference services in libraries. The topics include virtual reference systems, with examples of what other institutions have adopted, collaborative virtual reference services with examples, and how reference librarians away from their desk and even off campus have developed new referencing services.
Open Access to UNT Faculty's Scholarly Publications
This presentation discusses open access policies at the University of North Texas (UNT). The topics include an introduction to open access, a discussion of open access policies, and implementation ideas for workflow and technology support.
What's My Leadership Color?
This presentation discusses leadership skills in relation to colors. The topics relate to the "True Colors" quiz, leadership colors, attributes and stressors, and esteem and colors. The discussion is based on "True Colors - An Approach to Understanding Self and Others" by Julie Ray, Partners in Learning.
Enemies of History: Murderers of the Past
This presentation is about a workshop for high school students. The workshop focused on preservation and how it relates to the study of history.
Teaching Information Literacy: A Performance Based Cycle
This presentation discusses teaching information literacy and a project to assess student searching skills. It includes background information on the project, discusses the performance cycle of information literacy, active teaching, learning, and assessing, student navigation skills, and software and strategies.
APA Review Library Information Sciences End of Program Exam
Presentation for a University of North Texas (UNT) School of Library and Information Sciences (SLIS) 5900 course. This presentation gives instruction for the American Psychological Association (ALA) citation style for electronic journals.
Library and Information Science End of Program Exam Survival Tips
Presentation for a University of North Texas (UNT) School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) 5900 course. This presentation discusses library and information science end of program exam survival tips and how to write three 2500 word essays in one week.
APA Review: Citing Social Media and Websites
Presentation at the University of North Texas (UNT) for the research fellows from the National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan. This presentation discusses citing social media and websites.
BI's via LibGuides: All your eggs in one basket
Presentation for the 2013 Texas Library Association (TLA) Library Instruction Round Table. This presentation discusses BIs via LibGuides.
The Portal to Texas History
This presentation presents information about The Portal to Texas History, a digital gateway to cultural heritage collections in Texas. This presentation discusses the IOGENE project, the research processes involved in developing The Portal to Texas History, the research with genealogists, and shows illustrations of the contents of The Portal to Texas History.
At Risk: Capturing and Preserving Web Resources
This presentation discusses the Web-at-Risk project and the issues related to capturing and preserving web resources. It introduces collection development issues, organization and metadata issues, and the findings that support the needs for a web archiving service.
Budget Status of the UNT Libraries 2014: Library Town Hall Meeting on the Library Budget Shortfall
Presentation for the September 2014 Library Town Hall Meeting. This meeting discussed the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries budget status and shortfalls.
Redefining Collection Development at UNT Libraries
Presentation for the June 12, 2014 University of North Texas (UNT) Library Dean's Council meeting. This presentation discusses a proposal for redefining collection development at the UNT Libraries.
Professionalism and Your Career: Tips for the Work Place and Your Future Careers
Presentation for a UNT Libraries workshop for student assistants. The presentation discusses professionalism in one's career and offers tips for the work place and future careers.
Quality Customer Service on a Budget
Presentation on offering quality customer service on a budget. The author explains how the UNT Libraries improved workflows and services offered while cutting expenditures.
Study Blue
This presentation is part of the Eagle Commons Library CLC Workshop Series. It introduces Study Blue, an online study tool system. This article outlines what Study Blue can do, its features, and offers examples for how to navigate and best utilize the system.
Assessing Student Critical Thinking Skills in Single Library Instruction Class
Presentation for the 2011 Phoenix Staff Development Day discussing how to assess the critical thinking skills of students in single library instruction classes. The challenges and solutions are discussed, as well as a recommendation for, and example of, a library instruction worksheet that can be used.
Lexicon of Jazz Invective: Hurling Insults Across a Century with Big Data [presentation]
Presentation for the Texas Music Library Association Fall 2014 Meeting. This presentation discusses the lexicon of jazz invective and hurling insults across a century with big data.
When Fulltext Searching Isn't Enough: Text Encoding for Manuscripts and Other Special Collections Materials
Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Special Collections Affinity Group Fall 2014 Meeting. This presentation discusses text encoding for manuscripts and other special collections materials.
Unity in Diversity, ETDs at UNT: and a look towards BibFrame
Presentation for the 2014 Texas Music Library Association Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) at the University of North Texas (UNT) and BibFrame.
Keeping it Real: A Comprehensive and Transparent Evaluation of Electronic Resources
Presentation slides from a pre-conference workshop at the 2014 Charleston Annual Library Conference. The workshop discusses a comprehensive and transparent evaluation of electronic resources.
In Search of Charles B. Ward [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2014 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. This presentation discusses Charles B. Ward (1864-1917) and includes a biography and further implications for biography and musical reception history through resources originally created with different purposes in mind.
From a Shed in Ojai to a Library in Denton: Reassembling and Preserving the Maynard Ferguson Collection at UNT [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2010 Texas Music Library Association (TMLA) Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses reassembling and preserving the Maynard Ferguson collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
"In Case of Sudden Death, Burn This": The Simon Bucharoff Collection at the University of North Texas Music Library [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2012 Texas Music Library Association (TMLA) Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses the Simon Bucharoff collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) music library.
Customer Service in the Library
Presentation to the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Access Services student assistants. This presentation discusses customer service in the library.
Access to Geographical Information in Library Catalogs: a Case Study
Presentation for the Pioneer America Society Annual Conference. This presentation discusses a case study on access to geographical information in library catalogs.
GIS Trends and Open Access
Presentation for the 2016 Open Access Symposium discussing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and data in relation to open access initiatives.
The Life Cycle of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This presentation discusses the life cycle of electronic theses and dissertations. The presentation includes a look at ETD programs today, definitions of lifecycle management, ETD lifecycle management challenges, and the IMLS ETD Lifecycle Management Project.
A Model for Integrating the Publication and Preservation of Journal Articles [Revision]
Revised version of a presentation for Open Repositories 2014 discussing a model for integrating the publication and preservation of journal articles.
Merging Departments, Service Desks and Staff: Managing Change While Improving Customer Service and Staff Morale
Presentation for the 2014 Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses merging departments, service desks and staff and managing change while improving customer service and staff morale.
TALL Texans 2013 Workplace Leadership Development Project
Presentation for the Texas Library Association Annual Conference on TALL Texans 2013 and the workplace leadership development project.
Measuring Value and Impact: A Study of the UNT Digital Library Collections
Presentation for the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) discussing value and impact and a study of the UNT Digital Library collections.
Copyright and Social Media
Presentation for the Oklahoma Library Association on copyright and social media.
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