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- Understanding Connections: Examining Digital Library and Institutional Repository Use Overlap
- This paper examined how users navigated between other collections within the UNT IR, as well as within the UNT DL. Through this examination, we observed patterns between how users navigated between objects, understood which collections may have related to one another, examined why some unique items were used more than others, and viewed the average number of items used within a session
- 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.
- Out of the Oven and into the (Reusable) Bag: Sous-Vide Book Delivery
- This is a section of The Sustainable Library's Cookbook, which is a collection of sustainable activities for academic libraries. This particular section explores sustainable practices in the Access Services Department at the University of North Texas.
- Making Digital Collection Audio Visual Materials Accessible: Final Report
- This report documents the Making Digital Collections A/V Materials Accessible project which sought to learn about and initially address accessibility compliance issues, specifically related to A/V materials in the UNT digital collections. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
- Assessing a Professional Development Program for Academic Librarians
- This presentation describes how measures of need, participation, satisfaction, and impact are used to assess many aspects of a professional development program in a large academic library. It was presented at the Mountain Plains Library Association Conference of 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Cataloging for Makerspaces
- This poster shares how makerspace items are cataloged by UNT Libraries and how they benefit the library. It was presented at the Mountain Plains Library Association 2019 Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Mixed-Methods Assessment of a Mentoring Program
- This article describes how a large academic library's continuous cycle of mixed-methods assessment contributes to the success of their mentoring program. Assessment instruments include the Mentoring Competencies Assessment, the Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale, a satisfaction survey and a focus group.
- The collection assessment is done...now what?
- This presentation discusses how the UNT Libraries approaches collection assessment and its follow-up actions. It touches on the nature of collection evaluation in libraries in general and how UNT's assessment strategy employs a subject-oriented perspective in particular. It was presented at the Library Assessment Conference of 2018 in Houston, Texas.
- Using Metadata Record Graphs to Understand Digital Library Metadata
- This paper discusses the use of Metadata Record Graphs as a way of generating network-based metrics for metadata in six digital library collections, and evaluates the usefulness of network analysis versus more standard statistical data.
- Game Collections in Libraries: More than just Monopoly
- This poster was presented at the American Library Association (ALA) Conference & Exhibition in June of 2019 in Washington, D.C. The poster highlights the results of a game census completed in 2018 that documents games in library collections.
- 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.
- Beyond Makerspaces: Fabricating a Bibliographic Community
- This presentation focuses on the 3Dhotbed collection's goal of creating a bibliographic community. The team discusses their challenges of broadening the project while ensuring quality metadata and long-term preservation. It was presented at the Digital Library Federation Forum held in Las Vegas, Nevada on October 15-17, 2018.
- Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity
- UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity. Ultimately choosing to adapt the Points Process System developed by the University of Northwestern.
- Digital Library Federation 2019 Capacity Presentation Script
- Script notes for the presentation "Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity" at the 2019 Digital Library Federation Forum. UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity.
- Assessing the Success of Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians
- This paper is a part of the proceedings for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. It describes an academic libraries' assessment of their faculty mentoring program.
- Using Metadata Record Graphs to Understand Subject Usage in the UNT Theses and Dissertations Collection
- Presentation for the 22nd International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETD 2019), discussing the use of network analysis to evaluate subjects in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' ETD collection.
- Updates from the 3DHotbed Collection
- This presentation highlights the progress of the 3D History of the Book Education (3Dhotbed) collection. The team has focused on creating workflows, promoting the collection, adding new material, and assessment of the collection by users. It was presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries held in Austin, Texas.
- Using Metadata Record Graphs to understand controlled vocabulary and keyword usage for subject representation in the UNT theses and dissertations collection
- This article discusses the use of network analysis through the creation Metadata Record Graphs to analyze the interconnectedness of subject and keywords in the University of North Texas Theses and Dissertations collection. The analysis compares overlap of controlled terms (Library of Congress Subject Headings) and uncontrolled terms (keywords), as well as the effects of basic format normalization (to simulate editing values for consistency) to evaluate how well subjects connect in the collection.
- A Census of Game Collections in Libraries: Final Report
- This report documents the Census of Game Collections in Libraries project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant. The project set out to collect data on games in libraries' collection, house the data in the UNT repository to make it available to anyone, and establish a process to complete more in the future. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
- Make Your Space: Final Report
- This report documents the Make Your Space project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant for The Factory Makerspace. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
- Increasing Student Success with Information Literacy & Student Learning Outcomes
- This handout was created as part of the Information Literacy Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. The team conducted curriculum mapping project to improve UNT students' critical thinking and ability to use information effectively.
- 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.
- We Need Diverse Resources
- 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.
- Purchasing Power: Assessing Library Print Vendors
- This poster assesses the services of library print vendors using turn-around time to fulfill order and discounts off list price as found on the library services vendor's website.
- United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association Conference Presentation
- 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.
- Deciphering Signatures for Improved Discoverability of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
- This presentation looks 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.
- Information Literacy & Student Learning Outcomes: Increasing Student Success
- This poster was created as part of the Information Literacy Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. The team conducted curriculum mapping project to improve UNT students' critical thinking and ability to use information effectively.
- Improving Library Services for Patrons of All Abilities: Final Report
- Improving Library Services for Patrons of All Abilities: Final Report summarizes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity. The project aimed to increase the awareness and mindfulness of the needs of patrons with disabilities and to improve services offered to accommodate those patrons. The project was funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant.
- Special Collections podcast
- This report documents the Special Collections podcast project funded through the Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the project's activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
- Spatial characteristics of physical environments for human settlements in Jinsha River watershed (Yunnan section), China
- Article examines the land in the Yunnan Jinsha River watershed to conduct an integrated analysis of environmental factors and human settlements and provides recommendations for urban planning, land use, and disaster management.
- Righting the Ship: One library's experience from a front-line librarian's perspective
- This presentation explains the process librarians took to make collection cuts. They focused on larger vendors and subscriptions where possible, and they made decisions based on standardized criteria. It was presented at the Texas Council of Academic Libraries in September of 2019.
- Exploring the Utility of Metadata Record Graphs and Network Analysis for Metadata Quality Evaluation and Augmentation
- Article discussing the effectiveness of network analysis for evaluating digital library metadata records. It provides count- and value-based statistics as well as network metrics for each of the two collections identified for this research and compares the usefulness of various data values for metadata quality analysis.
- Don't Fence Me In: Engaging Local Music Communities to Preserve Texas Music: Final Report
- This report documents the Don't Fence Me In: Engaging Local Music Communities to Preserve Texas Music project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant for the Local/Independent Music Initiative of Texas (LIMIT). The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
- Grant Proposal: Developing a Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage
- Grant proposal narrative for a project to build a pilot data trust related to usage of open access (OA) monographs that will allow authors and institutions to analyze the data in a secured system. Includes appendices for principal related efforts, curriculum vitae for the principal investigators, descriptions for positions that will be hired with grant funds, budget information, and meeting agendas.
- Encouraging Adoption, Adaptation, and Creation of OER at UNT
- 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 by the Press and Libraries. These specifics of these programs will be presented.
- University Libraries: How do we Meet the Needs of Students with Disabilities?
- Poster presented at the 2019 Association on Higher Education and Disability (AHEAD) annual conference in July, 2019 in Boston, MA. This poster discusses about the University of North Texas Libraries' collaborative approach to support the needs of Students with Disabilities.
- By Popular Demand: Modifying Library Policies to Improve User Experience
- 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.
- Breaking Down Barriers to Accessing Technical Literature on Opaque Microcard
- 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.
- Cataloging for Makerspaces
- Although many school libraries include makerspaces, their catalogs do not always provide information about makerspace resources. Cataloging these resources can benefit school library users and staff in several ways. This article argues that how cataloging increases the visibility of the makerspace collection not only by making the items accessible for catalog users, but also facilitating browsing by collocating similar resources.
- Facilitating User Access through the Extraction of Documents from Digital Archives
- Poster presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL-2019). This poster discusses about the University of North Texas' archive of government websites known as the CyberCemetery. The UNT Libraries have begun to extract documents embedded within the vast collection of web archives. Many of these documents include reports and transcripts from the various committees and agencies found in the collections. Through this project, the UNT Digital Library expands its role as a steward of digital resources in addition to making information easier to find.
- Mapping the Inner Monstress
- 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 the non-human, and a mutual agency that might be productive of new ways of existing and acting in harmony.
- Haints & Haunts: Spiritual Correspondence in Harrow County
- 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 confront issues of trauma, memory, and childhood.
- Leveraging Machine Learning to Extract Content-Rich Publications from Web Archives
- 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? 2. What are the characteristics of web-published documents and publications that help content selectors identify them for inclusion in their local collection
- Metadata Record Graphs for Six Collections from the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections
- Paper providing background and the entire processed, intermediary data used for network analysis research regarding metadata from the UNT Digital Collections. It includes background and contextual information to reuse the data and provides complete datasets for metadata in six selected collections: the College of Music Recordings, Technical Report Archive and Image Library, the Texas Patents Collection, Texas State Publications, UNT Theses and Dissertations, and the University Photography Collection.
- Enhancing the Discovery of Tabletop Games
- Collections of three-dimensional materials may not be discoverable to library users if they lack adequate metadata. Discovery of these collections may be enhanced through the application of relevant cataloging standards and con-trolled vocabularies. This paper outlines how librarians at the University of North Texas Libraries used these strategies to increase access to a large collection of tabletop games.
- Managing Sudden Loss
- Managers often face tough, emotional situations at work. One of the biggest is guiding employees and departments successfully through the loss of a coworker. Not only are there emotional components but there are also more technical and procedural responsibilities that may be overlooked. These facilities, technological, and human resources tasks need to be handled sensitively and in a timely manner. Remembering whom to contact, what property needs to be considered, and how to produce final paychecks are just a few of the concerns managers will face in a trying time. This guide aims to serve as a checklist of the basic components and tasks managers will face after the sudden loss of an employee.
- Science Fair and Beyond: Selecting Excellent Science Books for Children and Teens
- This presentation attempts to answer the research question: "What percentage of parents do their children's science fair projects for them?" It also discusses about selection tools for finding useful science books.
- A New Approach to Academic Library Liaisons
- 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 variety of strategies for providing liaison services.