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- Access Services 2.0 through Employee-Directed Planning
- Presentation discusses utilizing participatory leadership techniques such as circle practice and World Cafe´ to enhance employee involvement in organizational planning. Access Services employees were empowered to participate in setting goals, future planning, and restructuring the department. The details of the process, lessons learned, and challenges will be shared. It was presented at the 2022 Access Services Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Beyond Makerspaces: Fabricating a Bibliographic Community
- This presentation focuses on the 3Dhotbed collection's goal of creating a bibliographic community. The team discusses their challenges of broadening the project while ensuring quality metadata and long-term preservation. It was presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum held in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 15-17, 2018.
- Challenges and Successes in Technology Roadmap Implementation: Lessons Learned from Public and Private Sector Roadmaps
- This document is a PDF version of MS Powerpoint presentation by Jack Eisenhauer and Ross Brindle from Energetics Incorporated (www.energetics.com) to Energy Technology Roadmaps Workshop, organized by the International Energy Agency (IEA). This event was held in Paris, France on May 15-16, 2008.
- Combined Library Services Desk: Round Table Discussion
- Presentation for a round table discussion at the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses combining library service desks.
- Copyright Workflow for the Institutional Repository
- Presentation on the methods for discovering publisher policies and gaining permissions to make previously published works available through an institutional repository. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative - Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation Affinity Group meeting on December 16, 2016 at the Dick Smith Library at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.
- Creating Value Beyond the Library: Best Practices for Embedded Librarianship
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses creating value beyond the library and best practices for embedded librarianship.
- Curating the Southwest Region's Maps: UNT-UTA Collaborative Project
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference discussing the Mapping the Southwest project. Mapping the Southwest was a 3-year project (2010-2013) funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) We the People grant. This presentation discusses the background of the project, the goals and activities, impacts, and lessons learned.
- Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 2/3
- This report discusses the curators' evaluation of WAS release 2/3, part of the Web-at-Risk project.
- Distributed Digital Preservation ETD Workshop
- 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.
- dkNET's Resource and Authentication Reports for Researchers
- Presentation on dkNET's relevant tools for researchers. It was presented at the STEM Librarians South Conference which was held virtually on July 16, 2020.
- The E-Quality Service Model: Collaboration between the Reference and Circulation departments as a means to improve the library experience for distance education patrons in an academic library
- This presentation discusses collaboration between the reference and circulation departments as a means to improve the library experience for distance education patrons in an academic library. The two authors give perspectives from the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
- 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.
- Enhancing Descriptive Metadata Records with Freely-Available APIs
- Article on enhancing descriptive metadata records with freely-available Application Programming Interfaces (APIs).
- Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation.
- ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English
- ETS Corpus of Non-Native Written English was developed by Educational Testing Service and is comprised of 12,100 English essays written by speakers of 11 non-English native languages as part of an international test of academic English proficiency, TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language). The test includes reading, writing, listening, and speaking sections and is delivered by computer in a secure test center. This release contains 1,100 essays for each of the 11 native languages sampled from eight topics with information about the score level (low/medium/high) for each essay. The corpus was developed with the specific task of native language identification in mind, but is likely to support tasks and studies in the educational domain, including grammatical error detection and correction and automatic essay scoring, in addition to a broad range of research studies in the fields of natural language processing and corpus linguistics. For the task of native language identification, the following division is recommended: 82% as training data, 9% as development data and 9% as test data, split according to the file IDs accompanying the data set.
- External Funding, Infrastructures, and Digital Possibilities
- Presentation discussing grant work, types of grants, and lessons learned by University of North Texas Libraries when working with grants. This presentation was given as part of the Texas State University Research Libraries 2022 Grant Series.
- Facilitating Discovery and Long-term Access to Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Notes About Those in Music
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. In this presentation, the authors discuss facilitating discovery and long-term access to electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and offer notes about music ETDs.
- Filling the Gap: A Focus on Accessibility and Curriculum in Equipment Lending
- Presentation discussing the steps taken to create a new circulating collection of equipment items, from needs assessment and item selection to circulation and promotion. Best practices for cataloging, circulation, and item storage will be discussed. Presenters share a LibGuide created to enhance the discoverability of the collection and discuss decisions made about content and format. The presenters also highlight project successes, as well as some of the challenges faced and lessons learned. It was presented at the 2022 Access Services Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
- Implementing the Extended Date/Time Format in Digital Collections
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses the implementation of the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) within the University of North Texas (UNT) digital collections. It includes a summary of the kinds of date formats in the EDTF with examples from the digital collections, a description of methods used to implement and utilize the machine-readability of the format, and an overview of reasons that other institutions may want to consider switching to the EDTF.
- Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks
- This Tech Talk presentation explores METS. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. Maintained by the Library of Congress, it provides a standard vocabulary and set of data structures for encoding hierarchical digital object content and metadata. In this presentation the author explains more about these parts of METS, and discusses how METS may be applicable to digital collections in the UNT Libraries.
- Investigations Into Using Machine Learning Models to Automate the Sorting of Digitized Texas State Publications.
- This poster highlighting the development of machine learning model to automate part of the process of digitizing and archiving documents from the Texas State Depository Program. This particular part of the process is the sorting of documents to facilitate metadata creation. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
- Mapping the Way for Information Literacy Skills in Child Development Research
- Presentation for the 2014 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Information Literacy Satellite Meeting on conjunction with the IFLA World Library and Information Congress. This presentation discusses mapping the way for information literacy skills in child development research.
- Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?
- This presentation briefly introduces the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and their mission. It explains the structure of the Digital Projects Unit having the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History, and discusses their metadata structure and its role in Digital Projects.
- Mindful Study Breaks
- This presentation is a workshop that provides a structured program of five mindfulness exercises to help individuals learn how to develop mindfulness practices that may be useful when studying. The program is connected to an optional research study on mindfulness programming in libraries.
- Mixed-Methods Assessment of a Mentoring Program
- This article describes how a large academic library's continuous cycle of mixed-methods assessment contributes to the success of their mentoring program. Assessment instruments include the Mentoring Competencies Assessment, the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, a satisfaction survey and a focus group.
- More El Niños May Mean More Rainfall Extremes
- Researchers at NASA and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), studying changes in tropical precipitation patterns, have noted a higher frequency of El Niños and La Niñas over the last 21 years. In addition, when either of those events occur, the world can expect more months with unusually high or low precipitation with droughts more common than floods over land areas.
- More Than Just a Job: Student Employee Success in Academic Libraries
- Presentation describes how being a student assistant at UNT Libraries impacted Holly Dolan. The presentation also includes perspectives from other student workers, as well as advice on how to improve library programs to ensure the success of student workers. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Texas Library Association Annual Conference.
- More Than Just a Job: Student Employee Success in Academic Libraries [Audio]
- Audio for presentation describing how being a student assistant at UNT Libraries impacted Holly Dolan. The presentation also includes perspectives from other student workers, as well as advice on how to improve library programs to ensure the success of student workers. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Texas Library Association Annual Conference.
- Name Authority Control: An institutional repository approach
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses the importance of name authority, how the UNT Name App tool addresses challenges with name authority, the migration and implementation process, and implications for future use.
- NDNP at UNT: Building Open Access To Our Heritage
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) at the University of North Texas (UNT). The author gives a background of the project, discusses the production, the data and workflow, collaboration efforts, and helpful software tools.
- The Next Generation of Creative Commons Licenses, What's New in CC 4.0
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses the next generation of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and what is new in CC 4.0.
- Open Access to Our Heritage: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses open access to our heritage and the history, development, workflow, and content of the Gateway to Oklahoma History digital newspaper repository.
- Pay It Forward: Mentoring library students for career development
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) conference. The authors discuss mentoring library students for career development.
- pedagogy4liaisons
- This website is a digital annotated bibliography that contains resources for the subject librarians and liaisons at the UNT Libraries. This repository is a digital copy of an annotated bibliography produced for the UNT Libraries’ Subject Librarian Workgroup. This digital platform allows for collaboration between the UNT liaisons to produce a list of resources for self-directed learning in pedagogy and theory in librarianship that may inform librarianship practices at the UNT Libraries.
- Progress report of the Interagency Climate Change Adaptation Task Force
- This report describes work by the Interagency Climate Change Task Force. The group's goals include forming recommendations for a national strategy for climate change adaptation, improving the resilience and adaptive capacity of the federal government towards climate change, and improving public understanding of specific climate change vulnerabilities.
- Regulations Governing Water Pollution Control Measure Plans and Permit Application Review
- This law was passed by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to protect human health and the environment by controlling water pollution.
- Scaling up to meet growing needs
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. The author discusses scaling up to meet the growing needs of a digital library.
- Serenity Now! Overcoming the Fear of Negative Evaluation
- Presentation for the 2018 Texas Women in Higher Education Annual Conference. This presentation discusses fear of negative evaluation (FNE), including perceptions of FNE and ways to overcome it.
- Texas Digital Newspaper Program Issue Dataset for IFLA/Rootstech Analysis
- This dataset contains the descriptive metadata harvested from the Texas Digital Newspaper Program collection on The Portal to Texas History and is accompanied by a dataset derived from the harvested metadata. This dataset was used for an IFLA Newspaper Section and Rootstech presentation.
- Transforming an Academic Library from a Traditional Service Model to a Community Partner
- Presentation for the 2015 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses transforming an academic library from a traditional service model to a community partner.
- Transitioning to SciFinder-n: What to Expect
- Presentation on SciFinder-n and the updates made from SciFinder. It was presented at the STEM Librarians South Conference which was held virtually on July 16, 2020.
- Using Digital Primary Resources in Instruction: Developing Digital Scholarship with Undergraduate Researchers
- Presentation for the 2019 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the use of digital primary resources for undergraduate instruction.
- Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette
- Presentation for the 2018 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference. This presentation discusses how you can advocate for your library while maintaining vendor relationships.
- With great power comes great responsibility: Libraries & publishers providing accessible content
- Article reporting on a panel session of the same title from the Charleston Conference 2021. The panelists revealed how their organizations implemented accessibility initiatives that provide print disabled users with greater access to online content, and the author provides an overview of their discussion.