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- 2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access
- Presentation for the 2008 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.
- Architecture of a Centralized Portal to Distributed Information: The Portal to Texas History
- This handout discusses the development of the architecture to build The Portal to Texas History through the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
- Archiving Web-published Materials
- Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2007 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference on the Web-at-Risk project and the Web Archiving Service (WAS).
- Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers
- Article discussing archiving web-published materials and a needs assessment of librarians, researchers, and content providers.
- Assessment Path Final Report
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report describes the major assessment activities, their contributions to the project, and key findings. The assessment work areas included needs assessment, collection planning, and WAS evaluation.
- Assessment: We know we should do it but does it have to be so difficult?
- This paper discusses assessment in library instruction programs.
- 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.
- At The Portal to Texas History
- This video presents The Portal to Texas History collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. It shows images from the collections including photographs, maps, newspapers, text documents, and objects.
- Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks
- This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing collections and distributed preservation networks.
- Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?
- 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.
- 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.
- Circulation Myth Busters!
- This presentation discusses circulation in the libraries and what the policies, processes, services, and resources are for the UNT Libraries circulation department.
- Collaborating with Your Local Public Library
- This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
- 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.
- Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials
- This paper discusses collaborations, best practices, and collection development for the preservation of born-digital and digitized materials.
- Collaborations: How Ussachevsky Interacted with Other Composers in the Creation of Electronic Music
- Presentation for the 2008 Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses collaborations and how Vladimir Ussachevsky interacted with other composers in the creation of electronic music.
- Collecting and Disseminating New Music: Originally Presented as "The Impact of Women in Music, New Composers Forum"
- Paper contributed to the 2002 Bar Harbor Music Festival. This paper discusses collecting and disseminating new music and the impact of women in music.
- Collection Plan for the CyberCemetery
- This report discusses the collection plan for the CyberCemetery, part of the Web-at-Risk project. The topics include the mission and scope, the selection, acquisition, descriptive metadata, presentation and access, maintenance and weeding, and preservation.
- Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. These policy and planning documents typically guide collection management within libraries and archives. Some familiar concepts and practices from collection development for non-digital materials easily transfer to collection development for web-based materials while some new concepts and unfamiliar practices are introduced. To effectively manage web collections, it is good practice to either create new policies and plans or modify existing collection policies and plans.
- Collection Planning Guidelines
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is developing a Web Archiving Service (WAS) that will enable the project's partner institutions to act as archive agencies that will assist the project's curators in building and managing archived collections of web-published materials.
- Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative
- This article offers a comparison of strategies and policies for building distributed digital preservation infrastructure.
- Connecting Constituents to Government Information: 150 Years of Congressionally Designated Libraries
- Article on connecting constituents to government information and 150 years of congressionally designated libraries.
- Content Producer Interview Questionnaire
- This document is an interview, questionnaire for the Web-at-Risk project. The purpose of this interview is to explore the issues information publishers or content producers have regarding web archives. The purpose of this discussion is to elicit the needs and thoughts of the users regarding web archives of materials created by a third party, such as a universal library.
- Content Provider Interviews: Summary Report
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report summarizes the results of the interviews with content providers. Section 2 identifies the interview methodology. Section 3 describes the results and Section 4 discusses the major findings.
- 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.
- Councilor's Report: 2006 Annual Conference - New Orleans
- This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in 2006, which took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Information about the topics discussed and issues that were brought up are included.
- Councilor's Report: 2006 Midwinter Meeting - San Antonio
- This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter meeting in 2006, which was held in San Antonio. The discussions include an increase in dues and several resolutions.
- Creating Online Tutorials
- This presentation is for Graduate Library Assistant training at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. In the presentation, the author discusses how to create successful online tutorials.
- Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 1
- This report discusses the curators' evaluation of Web Archiving Service (WAS) release 1, as part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report summarizes the feedback received from the curators and provides details details to illustrate the areas that were either confusing or problematic to them. Their recommendations as well as some considerations for future development are also included. Additionally, many of the observations and suggestions in the Quick Heuristic Evaluation of the WAS echo the feedback received from the curators. These commonalities are noted in the document.
- 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.
- Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 4
- This report discusses the curators' evaluation of WAS Release 4, part of the Web-at-Risk project.
- The Cybercemetery: Prolonging Usable Afterlife
- Paper for the 2004 IS&T Annual Archiving Conference. This paper discusses issues related to digital resource management when capturing and preserving web-based, heterogeneous digital materials produced by a variety of software in various versions.
- The Deep Web: Resource Discovery in the Library of Texas
- Article discussing the deep web and the new resource discovery service of the statewide virtual Library of Texas (LOT).
- The Depository Library Community and Collaborative Participation in E-Government: AskUS (FDLP Librarians) and We Will Answer!
- This book chapter examines the federal Executive Branch and Congressional vision of e-government and the role of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to demonstrate how the FDLP can effectively participate in existing e-government initiatives. The continuation of the Federal Depository Library Program's historic information dissemination, access, and preservation roles are now dependent upon multi-agency e-government collaboration. The collections and research expertise of Federal Depository libraries are the critical features missing in current e-government service models. The authors propose that the public service and resource discovery features now available at FDLP libraries be coordinated nationally via an AskUS-FDLP Library Portal.
- Developing Collections of Web-Published Materials
- This article discusses collection development practices to meet the unique characteristics of Web-published materials.
- Development of a portal to Texas history
- Article discussing the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' 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.
- Digitization of Government Information
- Report submitted by an American Libraries Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) ad hoc committee charged to "create a report advising GODORT on the best practices and procedures in the digital library field and advise GODORT on the most effective organizational structure for support of the government information community in pursuing digital library initiatives" (p. 2).
- 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.
- Earth, Rotation of
- Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses the rotation of the earth.
- Eclipses
- Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses eclipses.
- Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions
- Article discussing the effectiveness of a community health worker as sole diabetes educator.
- Electronic Archives and Partnerships - Preserving Government Information for Tomorrow
- This presentation discusses electronic archives, partnerships, and preserving government information. In this presentation, the authors discuss digital libraries and the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). They present the background of the FDLP, developing the Memorandum of Understanding, the CyberCemetery, and gives a current status of the FDLP.
- Employing Diffusion of Innovation Theory for Examining Adoption and Implementation of Preservation Metadata in the Cultural Heritage Community: An Exploratory Study
- Poster presented at the 2006 ALISE Conference (Doctoral Poster session). The poster was one of the five award-winning poster presentations for the best doctoral dissertation proposal.
- End User Interview Questionnaire
- This document is the end user interview questionnaire used for the Web-at-Risk project. It includes instructions for the interviewer, key concepts, and digital archive examples along with the questions to be asked.
- End User Interviews: Summary Report
- This report summarizes the results of the interviews with end users for the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. The project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University (NYU). The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build, store, and manage collections of web-published materials.
- 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 the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
- Paper for the 2007 IS&T Annual Archiving Conference. This paper describes how to enhance the quality of metadata and a modular approach to digital resource lifecycle management.
- Ensuring Universal Access for the Global Information Flow: Responding to the Demands of Scholarship in the Digital Age
- This presentation was presented in Session 6.4 Reports of Current Research (Juried Papers), at the 2005 ALISE Conference. It summarizes current situations and developing trends in information technologies. Africa is used as a case to illustrate how local policies have played important roles in the process of information globalization.
- Exploring the Texas Revolution Online through The Portal to Texas History
- This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution.