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Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?

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.
Date: July 10, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna

Building Digital Archives

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.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson

The Case for a Publishing Analytics Data Alliance

Description: Digital technology is making it possible for publishers and libraries to gather data on the dissemination and use of scholarly publications in unprecedented detail and on an unprecedented scale. While data arising from the digital distribution of content provides new opportunities for understanding the scholarly communication ecosystem, it also creates socio-technical challenges for understanding how scholarly content is shared and used across networked knowledge landscapes. Libraries and insti… more
Date: October 2015
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.

Cataloging that Works: How to Make E-books Findable

Description: Presentation for the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference as part of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group sponsored program. This presentation discusses a study on the discoverability of ebooks in library catalogs.
Date: June 29, 2014
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Harker, Karen

The Challenge of Open Access and the Humanities

Description: Presentation for the 2014 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference, as part of the 'Emerging Opportunities in Open Access' interactive panel session. This presentation discusses the challenges of open access and the humanities.
Date: July 25, 2014
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.

Chronicles in Preservation: Curation Practices for Born-Digital and Digitized Newspaper Collections

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.
Date: April 3, 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Walters, Tyler

Circulation Myth Busters!

Description: This presentation discusses circulation in the libraries and what the policies, processes, services, and resources are for the UNT Libraries circulation department.
Date: December 3, 2007
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie

Collaborating in Tough Times: Responding to State Cuts

Description: This presentation was for a panel session with librarians from school, public, academic, and the North Texas Library Partners (NTLP) at the Texas Library Association (TLA) annual conference. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaboration strategies during difficult financial periods and funding cuts.
Date: April 18, 2012
Creator: LaBoon, Jennifer D.; Ewell, Lana; Sears, Suzanne; Leuzinger, Julie & Wright, Adam

Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens

Description: 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.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna

Collaborative Approach to Address Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Challenges

Description: Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Summer Meeting. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaborative approaches to address scholarly communications and digital curation challenges.
Date: June 14, 2013
Creator: Helge, Kris; Waugh, Laura & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Collaborative Strategies for Digital Preservation of Newspapers

Description: This presentation discusses collaborative strategies for the digital preservation of newspapers. The University of North Texas (UNT) Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP), the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the Chronicles in Preservation Project are discussed with information on what they do, the importance of newspaper digitization projects, and how collaboration can further efforts in this area.
Date: April 11, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin

Combined Library Services Desk: Round Table Discussion

Description: Presentation for a round table discussion at the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses combining library service desks.
Date: August 16, 2013
Creator: Hardikar, Bethany; Abrams, Sarah & Whitmer, Susan

Combining Circulation and Reference Desks into a Single Service Point

Description: Presentation for the 2014 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses a project of combining circulation and reference desks into a single service point at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: July 25, 2014
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann; Abrams, Sarah; Dolan, Holly & Martinez, Francesca

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

Connect With Your Part-Time Library Staff: Using Learning Styles to Individualize Training

Description: Presentation discussing ways in which supervisors can individualize their training of part-time library staff based on individual learning styles. Training techniques currently in practice at the University of North Texas (UNT), Willis Library, for part-time shelvers will be demonstrated as well as assessment methods utilized to determine the effectiveness of staff training.
Date: 2011
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie

Content Curation and Online Portfolios: Tools and Tips

Description: Presentation for the 2015 Texas Library Association Annual Assembly Continuing Education Program. This presentation discusses tools and tips for content curation and online portfolios.
Date: July 8, 2015
Creator: Hardin, Gregory

Copyright and Authors' Rights: Fact or Fiction?

Description: Presentation for the Toulouse Graduate School summer workshop series. This presentation discusses copyright, authors' rights including creative commons licensing, repositories, and open access.
Date: July 28, 2015
Creator: McKinnon, Laura F. & Waugh, Laura

Copyright and Creative Commons (CC) Licenses

Description: Presentation for the 2015 Southwestern Association of Law Libraries (SWALL) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses copyright and creative commons (CC) licenses.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: McKinnon, Laura F. & Waugh, Laura

Copyright and Social Media

Description: Presentation for the Oklahoma Library Association on copyright and social media.
Date: April 2, 2014
Creator: Helge, Kris & McKinnon, Laura F.
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