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- Organizing a Successful Workload Analysis Project
- Presentation sharing the process for developing and executing a workload analysis project at the University of North Texas Libraries for the Cataloging and Metadata Services department. It was presented at the Creative Solutions in Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Resources Management Conference held by Amigos Library Services on February 15, 2024.
- Working Towards an Index of Music Printed in American Newspapers: 1900-1920
- Presentation highlighting a project to create an index of music printed and shared via newspapers in the United States from 1900 to 1920. It also shares some results of the project so far. It was presented at the Texas Music Library Association's fall meeting held October 20-21, 2023 in Denton, Texas.
- Cultivating Cooperation: Creating the Vendor Reciprocity Scale
- Presentation on the development of a Vendor Reciprocity Scale (VRS) by the University of North Texas Libraries as a way to download institutional knowledge of patterns of vendor behavior, and the presentation encouraged thoughtful and productive discussion on our collective knowledge surrounding best practices in business partnerships and negotiations as a way to help refine the VRS.
- Welcoming Families to the Academic Library: Lessons Learned Supporting Student-Parents
- Presentation discussing the development of an inclusive and supportive environment for student-parents by Access Services at the University of North Texas Libraries. This presentation will discuss the challenges encountered during the implementation of these initiatives, including the lack of attendance and engagement with the target audience.
- Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Computer Science & Computer Engineering
- Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of computer science and computer engineering. This collection analysis was focused on the use, age, growth, and gaps of the material relevant to these programs.
- These Tunes Ain't Straight In Line: Grateful Dead Shows and Problems with Music Cataloging Outside of the Western Art Paradigm
- Presentation provides an overview of the structure upon which modern library resource description is based, and we will highlight the difficulties of imposing this description standard on music for which it was not optimized, using examples from the Grateful Dead repertoire. It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 44th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Turtles All The Way Down To The Tracks: What And Where Is Terrapin Station?
- Presentation discussing the interpretation and importance of the Grateful Dead's song, "Terrapin Station." It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 40th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Making Sense of the Curriculum for the Knowledge Management Practitioner within Society 5.0
- This presentation for panel discussion #396 is about making sense of the curriculum for the Knowledge Management Practitioner within Society 5.0. It addresses the iSchool's version of "harnessing the power of information and technology, and maximizing the potential of humans" by recommending forward-thinking KM curricula and capabilities relevant to Society 5.0.
- Data-Driven Decision-Making Practice in Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia
- This presentation details how the authors' study investigates the practice of data-driven decision-making in higher education institutions in Ethiopia. The study also involved interviews with two directors from the university's education program relevance and enhancement office and four senior officers from library departments.
- Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia, Systematic Review
- This presentation asserts that in Ethiopia, the BDA concept and its implementation are either not know or left insignificant. The aim of this study was to investigate the current trends, challenges and opportunities of applying BDA in precision medicine globally and take lessons for Ethiopia.
- Digital Innovation in Education: the Evolution of Open Access
- Presentation details digital innovation in education, specifically, the evolution of open access.
- Research and Successful Promotion at UNT Libraries
- Presentation describes how there are multiple paths to promotion as a librarian at UNT. It details the ways in which employees with UNT libraries are able to be successful in academia and higher education.
- Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communications
- The presentation is about changing the landscape of scholarly communications. The presentation describes how using social justice lenses could promote OA and OER.
- Flexible OA Support in Academic Publishing: IGI Global's Premiere Platinum Open Access Book in Collaboration with University of North Texas
- Presentation presents "Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications", and details chapter information.
- Beyond Scholarly Communications: The Role of Open Access in Facilitating Digital Preservation
- Presentation asserts that ensuring long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing cultural heritage intuitions today. This presentation looks broadly into the contributions that open access (OA) has made towards facilitating the preservation of data.
- Open Science and Open Data: Issues and Considerations
- Presentation describes how the open access movement is transforming scholarly communication.
- Extractive Automatic Text Summarization Techniques for Afaan Oromoo - Afroasiatic Language in Ethiopia
- Presentation describes how there is an enormous amount of textual materials, which can be difficult for humans to distil effectively. Researchers have targeted producing summaries of doctors' prescriptions, lengthy information articles. These manner readers can take advantage of quite a few records on numerous subjects inside a brief span.
- Reducing Epistemic Injustices in Scholarly Output Management: Individual and Collective Levels
- Presentation discusses scholarly output dissemination and production in different disciplines. It also touches on the role of open access and the removal of barriers in facilitating access and enhancing the research impact.
- The Role of Open Access in Promoting Equitable and Human-Centered Teaching and Learning Environment: Post-Pandemic Academia
- Presentation discusses how the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier. All these developments provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable content and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations.
- Knowledge Sharing Practices Among Faculty Members in Higher Education Institutions
- Presentation asserts that knowledge is regarded as an organization's most valuable strategic resources. This presentation highlights and discusses knowledge sharing practices among faculty members in higher education institutions.
- My Fulbright Experience: Ethiopia (2019-20) & South Africa (2021-22)
- Presentation describes Daniel Alemneh's experiences as a Fulbright Scholar.
- Roles of Library for Quality Education and Research: Emerging Trends in the Information Professions
- Presentation asserts that in times of information scarcity, libraries provided the most effective way of sharing material.
- Towards Reducing Epistemic Injustices Identified During Fulbright Experiences
- Presentation describes how teaching is one of the activities as a Fulbright Scholar. Alemneh describes a plethora of open-source tools and technologies used to prepare, organize and deliver the courses I taught.
- Indexing in a Digital World
- Presentation is about how; the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier and provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable contents and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations. Despite this, the ever-expanding digital information resources in the Web, has evolved without much regard to resources management and organization issues.
- Scholars Experiencing Epistemic Injustice Due to Management of Scholarly Outputs
- Presentation describes the ways scholars experience epistemic injustice. Authors of the presentation claim that these cases of epistemic injustice are due to management of scholarly outputs.
- On the Open Road: The Story of an OA Publication through the Stakeholders Journey
- Presentation discusses the process to publishing an open access book, and they discuss the critical role of OA in facilitating equitable global education. Authors of the presentation also introduce current and future work in the area of open access.
- Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Languages and Literatures
- Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of languages and literatures. This collection analysis was focused on the four languages which undergraduates and graduate degrees are offered, including literatures and cultures.
- Implementing a Serial Title Database: A UNT Case Study
- Presentation outlining information about the deployment of a new serial title database in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections, including background information, purpose of the database, record modeling, and integration into the public interface.
- Oral Histories in The Portal to Texas History
- This presentation focused on the background and workflows of adding oral histories to The Portal to Texas History. It was presented as part of the Oral History Forum Webinar Series.
- Representing Serial Titles in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections
- Presentation exploring the use and representation of serial titles in the digital collections maintained by the UNT Libraries. It explores the technical aspects and challenges of the project.
- Using Digitized Historical Newspapers to Engage Sociology Students in Local History [Presentation]
- Presentation highlighting a course developed by Dr. William Scarborough at the University of North Texas (UNT) on intersectionality for undergraduate students. Partnering with the UNT Libraries to engage with primary sources, particularly newspaper collections, to conduct archival analysis related to the history of power, domination and resistance in Texas communities.
- Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories
- Presentation examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.
- Scavenger Hunts, Zoom & Trolls: Lessons Learned from Virtual Outreach
- Poster highlighting virtual outreach events to engage students during the COVID-19 pandemic. These events utilized Zoom’s video conferencing technology and aimed to be entertaining while also promoting the library’s virtual reference services.
- Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Reproductive Rights
- Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of reproductive rights. The Reproductive Rights collection focuses on resources about specific health issues related to the female reproductive system, the social questions around human reproduction, and the public health implications.
- Tips and Tricks for Using Create Lists in Sierra
- Presentation on using the Create List function in Sierra, a library service platform. It covers the basics of how to use create lists, some best practices, as well as some slightly more advanced uses like Import records, JSON queries, and using Regular Expressions in the search info. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Automating Monthly Clean Up: No longer a babysitter
- Presentation on automating the clean up of catalog records in Sierra using SQL queries and Python scripts. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.
- Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative
- Presentation highlighting the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. The Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative aims to remove some of the barriers trans individuals face accessing information and to provide more equitable access to our services and collections. The presentation shares the different phases of the project with guidance for others looking to start similar initiatives at their library, even if there is little administrative support.
- Leveraging Collaboration and Peer-to- Peer Strategies to Expand Outreach Efforts
- Presentation highlighting changes made in the University of North Texas Libraries' Access Services Department to address changing workflows and service demands, including reallocating duties to create a position that focuses on outreach and programming for the department.
- Multi-Directional Leadership
- Presentation exploring leadership as a multi-directional relationship. It was presented at the 2023 Conference on Academic Library Management held June 5-9, 2023.
- Responding to User Feedback about Digital Newspaper Collections
- Presentation sharing how the University of North Texas Digital Libraries manages user feedback and requests for The Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program Awardee Meeting held on September 29, 2022.
- Accessible History: Putting a Century of The Chronicles of Oklahoma Online
- Presentation sharing the project workflows for digitizing back issues of The Chronicles of Oklahoma. It has been published since 1921, and in 2020, the Oklahoma Historical Society partnered with the UNT Digital Library to make the back issues freely available through The Gateway to Oklahoma History. It was presented at the 2023 NASIG Conference held May 22-25, 2023 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- UNT Writing Center @ Willis
- This presentation promotes the work of student employees in the UNT Writing Center located in Willis Library. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
- How May I Help You?
- This presentation shares the experiences of the author while working as a Library Services Academic Assistant that support the UNT Libraries' Access Services team. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
- Texas Lutheran University STRENG Slides
- This presentation highlights the author's work digitizing 35mm slides from the Evelyn Fielder Streng Slide Collection. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
- What I've learned as a Feedback Assistant
- This presentation shares the author's experiences working as a Feedback Assistant in the UNT Digital Library. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
- Working with Metadata: MISAME
- This presentation highlights the author's work with the UNT Digital Library collection for Mnemothèque Internationale des Arts Electroacoustiques (MISAME). It was presented at the UNT Libraries' 2023 Student Snapshots Symposium held in Denton, Texas.
- Open Access Publishing Requirements
- Presentation exploring Open Access, federal mandates for public access to research data, and support services available from the UNT Libraries. It was presented as part of the Division of Research and Innovation's Research BREAKS webinar series.
- Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Gaming Production
- Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of gaming production.
- Organizing a Successful Workload Analysis Project
- Presentation focusing on a project-based experience to analyze workflows within technical services that influenced workload leveling and understanding of work across technical services at the UNT Libraries. It was presented at the CORE Interest Group Week held March 6-10, 2023.
- Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Geography & The Environment
- Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of geography and the environment.