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We Need Diverse Resources

Description: This was presented at the Brick and Click conference in 2019 at Northwest Missouri State University. It focused on building a diverse collection of resources and creating a welcoming space for all.
Date: November 1, 2019
Creator: Monahan, Jo

United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association Conference Presentation

Description: These are the notes for the presentation "Deciphering Signatures for Improved Discoverability of Electronic Theses and Dissertations." presentation looked at identification problems during the digitization of theses and dissertations. It was presented at the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association 2019 conference in Charleston, South Carolina.
Date: September 26, 2019
Creator: Berg, Jeremy; Wolf, Stacey & Yanowski, Kevin

Encouraging Adoption, Adaptation, and Creation of OER at UNT

Description: To complement UNT’s limited inclusive-access program, the UNT Libraries has taken the lead on two programs designed to encourage adoption, adaptation, and creation of OER at UNT. The first, OER Summer Grants, provides research funding for faculty who adopt an open textbook, modify an existing one, or create new supplemental material. The second, UNT Open Texts, is a partnership with the UNT Press that provides research funding for faculty who author a new open textbook to be published jointly b… more
Date: August 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.

By Popular Demand: Modifying Library Policies to Improve User Experience

Description: Presentation given at the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation explains the UNT Libraries' policies and modifications that have been made to improve services to users. It emphasizes the importance of asking for input from stakeholders and also argues that updating policies accordingly can show to users that their feedback and comments are taken seriously.
Date: 2018
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh; Johnston, Pamela & Cunningham, Chris

Breaking Down Barriers to Accessing Technical Literature on Opaque Microcard

Description: Poster presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL-2019). This poster discusses the Challenges of Microcards and UNT's collaborative project in partnership with the Technical Reports Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) that investigates the maturity of technologies that can be used to digitize microcards.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Milburn,Morgan C. & Phillips, Mark Edward

Mapping the Inner Monstress

Description: This presentation was delivered as part of a literary conference on "Monstrosity and the Topography of Fear" sponsored by the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. It argues that the Alex Garland film Annihilation (2018) and the Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda comic series Monstress (2015) both enact post-human dramas of colonization by the Other, figured as both alien and natural forces, but leave room for the possibility of "hybrid bodies" that allow for integration of the human and t… more
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Martin, John Edward

Haints & Haunts: Spiritual Correspondence in Harrow County

Description: This presentation was delivered as part of a panel on "Comics and the Epistolary Tradition" at the 2018. Popular Culture Association National Conference. The panel was sponsored by the Comics & Comic Art section of the PCA. It discusses the theme of "correspondence" in the comic series Harrow County, considering the term as part of its narrative and supplementary content, including letters from readers. It argue that the comic creates a shared community of artists, readers, and characters to co… more
Date: March 28, 2018
Creator: Martin, John Edward

Leveraging Machine Learning to Extract Content-Rich Publications from Web Archives

Description: Poster presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL-2019). This poster discusses about ways of Identifying content-rich documents among the wealth of materials available via web archives. This research attempts to answers the following two research questions: 1. What role do web-published documents and publications play in developing collections in the broad categories of institutional repositories, state government documents, and publications from the federal government? … more
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Fox, Nathaniel T. & Phillips, Mark Edward

A New Approach to Academic Library Liaisons

Description: This presentation reviews  the University of North Texas approach to revamp the philosophy for, and means of supporting, subject librarians as they provide library services to the university community. Crafting a new philosophy of liaison librarianship can be both  an exciting and a daunting process. New models of service have emerged that offer exciting opportunities to improve librarian skill sets, clarify expectations  of subject librarians, standardize assessment of liaisons, and identify a… more
Date: April 17, 2019
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Condrey, Coby

Adding Some Bam! Pow! Boom! to Your Outreach with Comics: A Roundtable Discussion

Description: 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.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Martin, John Edward; Griffith, Bobby & Condrey, Coby

Subject-Based Collection Evaluation: Context, Assessment Strategies, and Enhancement

Description: 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.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Crawford, Laurel; Harker, Karen & Condrey, Coby

Collaborative/Shared Management in Libraries

Description: This presentation provides an overview of collaborative management at the UNT Digital Libraries Division. It includes a discussion of available tools and mechanisms that facilitate effective communications among the various units and members and how role definition and designation of responsibilities help to manage complex digital projects.
Date: August 10, 2018
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia

Assessing an Academic Library Mentoring Program

Description: 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.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine

Open Tools for Publishing Education: A Workshop on Pedagogy and Practice

Description: This presentation was part of a two-day course at the 2019 Force11 Scholarly Communication Institute designed to explore possible uses of open publishing platforms, including Pressbooks, Wordpress, OJS, and Omeka, to teach scholarly communication and publishing concepts, as well as practical skills, in libraries or higher education institutions.
Date: August 2019
Creator: Martin, John Edward

Neurodiverse STEM Students and the Academic Library

Description: This presentation discusses about Neurodiverse STEM Students that characterized by neurologically-based variations in patterns of thought or behavior including: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia. The presentation identifies available support in the Academic Library and classroom.
Date: July 19, 2019
Creator: Anderson, Chelsea & O'Toole, Erin

Student Use of Interactive Whiteboards in an Academic Library Setting

Description: In January 2011, the University of North Texas Libraries installed two Hitachi StarBoards in the new Collaboration and Learning Commons of the Eagle Commons Library for patrons to use independently. This presentation reports preliminary findings from a web survey on students use of smart technologies and interactive whiteboards at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Elizondo, Yvette & O'Toole, Erin

Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data

Description: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and prop… more
Date: May 9, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.

Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data

Description: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and prop… more
Date: May 9, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.

Promoting Partnership and Interdisciplinarity in Evolving LIS Education

Description: Panel presentation for The Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS-2019). The panel brings together diverse stakeholders and explored the current landscape shaping the future of information, language and power in a global and digital world. The combined presentation slides offer summary of panelists' perspectives on partnership, interdiciplinarity, new challenges, as well as new opportunities for LIS research.
Date: April 27, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Zavalina, Oksana; Baker, Rose M.; Palmer, Alexis & Phillips, Mark Edward
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