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- The Long and Winding Road of an Assessment Committee
- Presentation on the experiences of an academic library assessment committee at the UNT Libraries. It includes the committee's development, challenges, and lessons. It was presented at the 2022 Library Assessment Conference held virtually on November 1-3, 2022.
- "Unity in Diversity": A Conversation around the Interdisciplinary Identity of Information Science
- Presentation on the Interdisciplinarity of Information Science with the goal to engage researchers and educators in a discussion about ways in which information science can remain a diverse field, realize its full potential, build a strong identity, and delineate the roles of stakeholders in diversity, as well as identify potential barriers.
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication
- This presentation covers the background and definition, stakeholder roles, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities, and current/emerging trends in Open Access and Scholarly Communication.
- Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Looking Ahead to a Post-Pandemic Future
- Presentation that covers open access in the context of Ethiopia. This presentation provides examples of the background of open access and scholarly communication, the policy frameworks in place (including the White House OSTP Call to Action), the challenges and opportunities in relation to developing nations, and the emerging trends in institutional initiatives in Ethiopia.
- Who still checks stuff out?: A look at physical circulation during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Presentation examining the changes to physical circulation of the University of North Texas Libraries' physical materials collection.
- Where Does Information Literacy Fit? Mapping The Core
- This presentation highlights a curriculum mapping project at the University of North Texas Libraries. The project seeks to improve the capacity of UNT students for critical thinking and the ability to use information effectively. The key aim of the initiative was to strengthen core library services to enhance high-impact practices. It was presented at the Cross-Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 Conference held by Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.
- Assessment of a Faculty Mentoring Program Using Validated Instruments
- This presentation focuses on the faculty mentoring program for librarians at the University of North Texas. They used validated instruments to ensure the quality of the program. It was presented at the Texas Association for Higher Education Assessment Conference in 2019.
- Automating Authority Control Procedures
- This handout was given out as part of a presentation called "Automating the Authority Control Process." The presentation described the process UNT's library has transformed authority control process into a largely automatic process with the help of vendors and specialized software. This handout provides more detailed procedures than the presentation. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 conference at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
- Automating the Authority Control Process
- This presentation describes the process UNT's library has transformed authority control process into a largely automatic process with the help of vendors and specialized software. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 conference at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
- Automating the Authority Control Process Notes
- These are the presentation notes for "Automating the Authority Control Process." The presentation described the process UNT's library has transformed authority control process into a largely automatic process with the help of vendors and specialized software. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 conference at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
- Book History Meets 3D: The 3Dhotbed Project
- This presentation is an overview of the 3Dhotbed Project that seeks to enhance book history instruction by providing access to affordable teaching tools and related materials for pedagogical purposes. It was presented at the Born to Be 3D: Digital Stewardship of Intrinsic 3D Data conference held by the Library of Congress on November 2, 2018.
- Adding Some Bam! Pow! Boom! to Your Outreach with Comics: A Roundtable Discussion
- This roundtable presentation and discussion provides an overview of outreach efforts at the UNT Libraries organized under the Comics Studies@UNT initiative from 2017-2019. It includes a discussion of the purposes and impact of doing outreach and programming using unique collections like comics & graphic novels to engage a diverse array of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural audiences, and to support ongoing research and teaching with these collections.
- Subject-Based Collection Evaluation: Context, Assessment Strategies, and Enhancement
- This presentation discusses how the UNT Libraries approaches collection assessment and its follow-up actions. It covers the nature of collection evaluation in libraries in general and how UNT's assessment strategy that employs a subject-oriented perspective in particular.
- Assessing an Academic Library Mentoring Program
- Considering the importance of mentoring not only for early career librarians but for librarians throughout their career, this presentation provides insights about the University of North Texas Libraries' mentoring program goals and detail analysis of assessment and evaluation methods.
- A Campus-based Author-pays OA Publishing Service
- Presented at the 2017 NFAIS Open Access Conference. In June 2015 the University of North Texas Libraries launched a for-fee service for publishing works of scholarship from authors affiliated with the university. While authors can choose from a menu of editing and design options, all publications are made free to read online through the institutional repository. Editing and design are carried out by freelancers and vendors, with charges passed on to authors; project management is provided by libraries staff for free. This service is meant to complement the UNT Press, which operates under a traditional university press model. This presentation reflects on the parameters of the service—such as charging authors, delivering publications through the repository, requiring free public access but not Creative Commons licenses, and not organizing peer review or charging for project management—and on what authors have chosen from the menu of options since the service was launched.
- Toward a Better Understanding of Open Access Policy Assessment
- Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In this presentation, the speakers will use current scholarship on IR and assessment methods to tease apart elements useful for understanding the fluid components of an open access policy.
- Deciphering Signatures for Improved Discoverability of ETDs
- Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. This lightning round presentation describes the creation of a database for deciphering and cataloging signatures for recently-digitized theses and dissertations.
- Exploratory Analysis of Metadata Edit Events in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2015 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses an exploratory analysis of metadata edit events in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital collections.
- An Exploratory Analysis of Subject Metadata in the Digital Public Library of America [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2015 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses an exploratory analysis of subject metadata in the Digital Public Library of America.
- 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.
- Copyright and Social Media
- Presentation for the Oklahoma Library Association on copyright and social media.
- Creative Commons Licenses: Benefits, Pitfalls, and Use
- Presentation for the Oklahoma Library Association on the benefits, pitfalls, and use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses.
- Student-Centered Value Research: Assessment activities of the UNT Libraries
- This presentation discusses student-centered value research and the assessment activities of the UNT Libraries. The UNT Libraries value research initiatives provide a means of measuring the Libraries' contribution to UNT's strategic goals.
- Mining Newspaper Archives
- This presentation discusses mining online newspaper archives. The topics in this presentation include the types of information found in these newspapers, the technology and standards for digitizing newspapers and offering effective search and navigation, ways to search, view, and browse the newspapers and how to use the search results.
- The Portal to Texas History Usability Test
- This presentation discusses a usability test conducted on users of The Portal to Texas History website managed by the University of North Texas. The study looks at the navigation of the Portal website and recruited users that UNT sees as their target audience. This presentation discusses the purpose of the usability testing, the test environment, test methodology, the usability scenario and tasks, user profiles, findings and analysis, and recommendations.
- Folksonomy
- This Tech Talk presentation explores Folksonomy. The author explores some of the more common aspects of folksonomies in the context of Web 2.0.
- Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library
- This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflows, how they overcame challenges, and how the use of established models and standards helped them find solutions to the workflow. It presents the editing system created for the Digital Projects Unit, the organizational structure for each object, and identifiers.