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- Expanding Access to Oklahoma Newspapers: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
- Presentation highlighting the partnership between the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Library and the Oklahoma Historical Society to digitize Oklahoma newspapers and make them accessible online through the Gateway to Oklahoma History. It was presented at the 2021 National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference held virtually by the Library of Congress on September 9 and 13-16, 2021.
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication
- Presentation on the concepts of open access and scholarly communication. This presentation covers the background of these topics and their definitions, tools and policies for open access, technology and emerging trends, challenges/opportunities that open access faces, and ultimately relates this information to open access initiatives in developing countries.
- The Heart of Librarianship: A Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries
- Presentation that provides a summary of the literature on library outreach and indicates how the literature review has impacted outreach developments at the UNT Libraries. Outreach has a positive impact on student success, but a clear definition of what outreach is looms beyond the literature. Intermixed with marketing, advertising, broader engagement methods, and social media use, outreach has become a catch-all term for activities that bring awareness to library resources, services, programs, spaces, and employees. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' Public Services Conversation Hour, an internal, divisional peer learning and training program.
- Leveraging Digital Library Infrastructure to Build a Language Archive
- Presentation describing the ongoing CoRSAL (Computational Resource for South Asian Languages) project, including background on the UNT Digital Library infrastructure and metadata schema, specific fields that have presented issues or areas of discussion for language data records (language, creator/contributor, and relation), and final conclusions about the collaboration so far.
- There’s an App for That! Using Technology to Support Executive Functioning & Coping Skills
- Presentation discussing some of the challenges college students with autism face, possible academic supports, and how apps can play a role in supporting learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It was presented at the UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center's 10th annual Adventures in Autism Intervention and Research Conference held on July 28, 2018 in Denton, Texas.
- Pedagogy for Practical Library Instruction – An Online Program
- This presentation highlights an online program developed to introduce academic librarians to pedagogy and describes the overall outline of the program, the structure of the modules, and the implementation plan for this program. It was presented at the 2020 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held virtually on August 7, 2020.
- Establishing a Smooth Video Production Workflow
- Presentation covers a 5-step video creation workflow to produce educational videos. It was presented at the 2021 Virtual Conference of the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) held on April 20-23, 2021.
- Forming and Maintaining Communities of Practice in Online Professional Development
- This presentation explores building your own community of practice, addressing mindsets that may limit ideas, and discusses different approaches and frameworks for forming and maintaining communities of practice within online professional development. It was presented at the 2019 Annual Conference of the Texas Distance Learning Association (TxDLA) held on March 25-28, 2019 in Galveston, Texas.
- Techniques and Technologies for Teaching and Learning Online
- This presentation explores several techniques and technologies used to deliver information to learners in synchronous and asynchronous environments. It was presented at the Art Libraries Society of North America's Texas-Mexico Chapter Annual Meeting on November 13, 2020.
- Implementing Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) at the University of North Texas
- Presentation on the University of North Texas Libraries’ implementation of Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) headings in their catalog. It was presented at the American Library Association's (ALA) Core Interest Group Week event which was held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.
- The Heart of Librarianship: A Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries
- Presentation that provides a summary of the literature on library outreach and indicates how the literature review has impacted outreach developments at the UNT Libraries. Outreach has a positive impact on student success, but a clear definition of what outreach is looms beyond the literature. Intermixed with marketing, advertising, broader engagement methods, and social media use, outreach has become a catch-all term for activities that bring awareness to library resources, services, programs, spaces, and employees. It was presented at the Library History Seminar XIV: Libraries Without Borders event which was held virtually on June 10-12, 2021.
- Utilizing TikTok for Library Peer-to-Peer Outreach
- This poster will cover the results and experiences of using Tiktok as a form of peer-to-peer outreach to share research tips with other college students. Specific examples, learned best practices, and future plans for improvement will be discussed. It was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Distance and Online Learning Virtual Poster Session held April 26-30, 2021.
- Trivia, Alliances, & Polls: Reimagining Virtual Outreach and Student Engagement
- Presentation on the transition to remote outreach and student engagement in an academic library. It was presented at the North American Virtual Reference Online Conference held February 23-25, 2021.
- The Texas Digital Newspaper Program: Reading Through the Eyes of Time
- Presentation introducing the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on The Portal to Texas History. It provides examples on different ways to explore the collection and includes other, similar resources that might be of interest. It was presented at the RootsTech 2021 virtual conference.
- Taking Your Students Through Time: By Traveling Through Newspapers
- Presentation introducing the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and providing possible uses for it in the classroom. It was presented for the Fall 2020 HIST 4750.001, Social Studies Teaching Methods, course.
- Preserving History By Building Access: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program
- Presentation on how to build digital newspaper collections via the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on The Portal to Texas History. It highlights grant opportunities that are available to support libraries in building access to their newspapers and demonstrates how to use the digital newspaper collections. It was presented at the Texas Library Association District 9 Fall 2020 meeting held virtually on October 29, 2020.
- Collaborative Clusters: Rethinking User Needs and Breaking Down Barriers
- University of North Texas Libraries established an innovative centralized system designed to increase transparency, evidence-based decision-making, and user-centeredness. A series of internal focus groups have revealed that traditional structures continue to silo and homogenize collections. How can libraries better design electronic collections to serve the needs of underserved users? It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries conference held on March 8-11, 2021.
- Prepare to Share
- This presentation provides an overview of the landscape and factors to consider in choosing among the options for printing and selling an open textbook. It was originally presented as part of Pub101, an online course from the Open Education Network, on February 24, 2021.
- GitAnnotated: Creating a Digital Annotated Bibliography on GitHub
- Presentation describing the process to create an annotated bibliography using GitHub so multiple users could access and contribute to it. The authors share some background, learning resources, problems, and how to contribute to the GitHub site.
- Moving Toward a Praxis of Zen Librarianship: Expanding Librarianship with Mindfulness
- Bibliography of resources related to Zen Librarianship. It is a supplementary resource to a poster presented at the Texas Library Association Conference held April 19-22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.
- Zen Librarianship-Moving Toward a Praxis of Zen Librarianship: Expanding Librarianship with Mindfulness
- Presentation on creating a Praxis of Zen Librarianship which frames reference and research assistance practices in academic libraries with theory and contemplative methodologies. It is a supplementary resource to a poster presented at the Texas Library Association Conference held April 19-22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.
- 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.
- Empowering Student Workers Using Flipped and Agile Project Management
- Presentation introduces the concepts of Flipped Instruction and Agile Project Management and discusses how those methodologies may be applied to student roles in library and digital humanities projects. It was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Together Wherever virtual event held on June 8-12, 2020.
- 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.
- 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.
- High-Quality Diet of Journals: Comparison of Top-ranked with Most-used Journals at a Large Academic Library
- Presentation is a follow-up on work from the UNT Libraries regarding compiled data from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and its comparison to UNT holdings. Journal usage data has been added to provide a more complete answer to the original question posed previously. The presentation focuses less on the technology and steps for gathering this data, and more on the results and the limitations of such an analysis. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on August 7, 2020.
- Making It Local: Developing a Local Usage Collection System
- Presentation on the creation of a locally-based system for collecting and displaying electronic resource usage data at the UNT Libraries. The process is discussed in-depth with goals, next steps, and links to tools and documentation. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
- UNT Scholarly Works
- Compilation of presentations related to Scholarly Communications from UNT Libraries. The presentations introduce the UNT Scholarly Works repository, how to submit items to the repository, and how items are processed; the second portion of the presentation focuses on Open Access at UNT and the goal of Open Access movement; and the final presentation highlights how to approach copyright and authors' rights and options available to authors.
- Re-Opening the Library
- Presentation discussing how the UNT Libraries operated during Spring 2020 semester which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The library was labeled an essential service, so it continued operation by adapting services. It was presented during a webinar, "Re-opening the Library," organized by the Texas Digital Library on May 7, 2020.
- Design Tips & Tricks for Presentations and Posters
- Presentation that highlights the use of basic design principles when creating presentations and posters. It was organized by the UNT Libraries' Career Development Committee and held virtually on May 12, 2020.
- Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships
- This presentation focuses on how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries was able to develop a successful partnership with the UNT Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) and move outside the Libraries’ normal sphere of influence to help create a patent internship program for students. It is a presentation for a contributed paper at the Texas Library Association 2020 Virtual Summer of Learning conference.
- Collaborating on Scholarship
- The presentation examines the considerations and processes for collaborating on scholarship from the perspective of academic librarians. It includes how to choose team members, facilitate collaboration and organize all the elements of a project to create a successful publication or presentation. Also included are administrative responsibilities, thoughts on handling problems, and examples of delineating responsibilities. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on August 7, 2020.
- To Meet or Not to Meet: How We Really Feel
- Presentation highlights meeting science in the context of libraries with support from a survey conducted by the authors. Topics include the predictors of success for productive meetings, what academic librarian perceptions of effective meeting leadership are, and learn about the “best practices” for meeting participation and leadership. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on August 7, 2020.
- Automating the Authority Control Process
- This presentation introduces ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. The presenter describes how their library handles authority control, describe vendors and programs, and demonstrate a few automated authority control processes using MarcEdit, Sierra, OCLC and a few other programs.
- E-Resource Cataloging: Challenges and Solutions
- In this presentation, catalogers from a large academic library share how they make e-resources discoverable through their approach to record quality assessment, batch editing with regular expressions in MarcEdit, and record load tracking. The presenters also provided handouts with helpful information about their processes and procedures.
- So You Want to Print and Sell Open Textbooks?
- This presentation provides an overview of the landscape and factors to consider in choosing among the options for printing and selling an open textbook.
- 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.
- Collaborating on Scholarship
- Presentation for the UNT Libraries Career Development Workgroup. This presentation discusses the benefits of collaboration on scholarship with examples from the library environment. It presents an overview of the process as well as providing suggestions for those interested in collaborating on projects.
- TRAIL Microcard Scanning Project
- Presentation on the topic of microcard digitization presented at the annual meeting for the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL). This presentation discusses the opaque microcard format and a project conducted by the UNT Libraries to produce high-quality digital files from the format.
- Microfiche Scanning at UNT
- Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the digitization of microfiche as part of the technical report digitization activities at the UNT Libraries.
- NACA Metadata Uplift Update
- Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the metadata cleanup activities for the collection of technical reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which is hosted by the UNT Libraries for TRAIL.
- Sustaining the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
- Presentation given at the Preservation and Archiving Special Interest Group (PASIG) conference 2019 held in Mexico City, Mexico. This presentation discusses the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) at the UNT Libraries and the process to enhance the sustainability of the program.
- CoRSAL Collection @ UNT Digital Library
- Presentation given at the third Computational Resource for South Asian Languages symposium in 2019 at the University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas. This presentation describes the activities of the UNT Libraries to provide infrastructure and support for language documentation archiving and preservation via the CoRSAL Collection.
- Using Metadata Record Graphs to Understand Digital Library Metadata
- Presentation discussing the evaluation of network analysis (with Metadata Record Graphs) for metadata in six digital library collections, to determine the usefulness of network-based metrics compared to other statistical data.
- Building Specialized Collections from Web Archives
- Presentation given at the Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR) 2019 conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This presentation discusses work on creating datasets of high-value publications and documents from web archives that can be used for machine learning research to help classify these large collections of data.
- Extracting "Documents" from Web Archives
- Presentation was given at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries in Austin, Texas. This presentation discusses an IMLS funded research grant to use machine learning techniques to help identify high-value publications from web archives.
- Using Web Archives
- Presentation given as part of the UNT Graduate Student Workshops by the UNT Libraries. This presentation discusses how students can make use of web archives in their existing research as well as providing a general overview to the topic of web archiving. it presents examples of how web archives can be incorporated to locate missing content, link directly to content at a given time, and how to preserve existing web content for future reference.
- Managing Language Data @ UNT Digital Library: CoRSAL Collection
- Presentation presented at the Second International Workshop on Language Documentation and Digital Archiving, held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi, India. This presentation discusses how language data is being hosted by the UNT Digital Library for long-term preservation and access.
- Texas Borderlands Newspaper Collection: Newspaper Preservation and Access, One Page at a Time
- Presentation given at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019 in Austin, Texas. This presentation discusses the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) and the Texas Borderlands Newspaper Collection, a project funded by the TexTreasures program of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC).
- CyberCemetery
- A presentation that was given at the Web Archiving Texas (WATx) 2019 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. This presentation discusses the CyberCemetery, a web archive of defunct federal websites hosted by the UNT Libraries.