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- Employing Diffusion of Innovation Theory for Examining Adoption and Implementation of Preservation Metadata in the Cultural Heritage Community: An Exploratory Study
- Poster presented at the 2006 ALISE Conference (Doctoral Poster session). The poster was one of the five award-winning poster presentations for the best doctoral dissertation proposal.
- The Impact of Open Access on the Current Landscape of Scholarly Communication
- Presentation for Jimma University in summer 2015 discussing the impact of open access on the current landscape of scholarly communication.
- Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative
- This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources.
- Theses and Dissertations from Print to ETD: The Nuances of Preserving and Accessing Those in Music
- Book chapter discussing the unique challenges of digitizing music theses and dissertations.
- Ensuring Universal Access for the Global Information Flow: Responding to the Demands of Scholarship in the Digital Age
- This presentation was presented in Session 6.4 Reports of Current Research (Juried Papers), at the 2005 ALISE Conference. It summarizes current situations and developing trends in information technologies. Africa is used as a case to illustrate how local policies have played important roles in the process of information globalization.
- The Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Communication: Stakeholders' Roles in a Global Ecosystem
- Presentation for a panel at the 2014 University Partnerships Workshop, sponsored by the U. S. Department of State and the U. S. Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan. This presentation discusses the evolving landscape of scholarly communication and stakeholders' roles in a global ecosystem.
- Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
- Paper for the 2007 IS&T Annual Archiving Conference. This paper describes how to enhance the quality of metadata and a modular approach to digital resource lifecycle management.
- The UNTL Metadata Guidelines: [Version-2, 2006]
- Report on the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries metadata guidelines. This report discusses describing digital objects in a consistent way that ensures long-term preservation and that provides for optimum searching, discovery and retrieval of information by users of our heterogeneous digital collections.
- Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities
- Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2005 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper provides an overall scenario in the areas of aggregating a variety of digital formats, archiving digital content, and innovative uses of digital library technologies.
- Meeting the Demands of Digital Scholarship: Challenges and Opportunities [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2005 ASIS&T Annual conference. This poster discusses challenges, opportunities, and meeting the demands of digital scholarship.
- Targeted Access for Varied Audiences to Integrated, Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources
- Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2003 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This paper describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History project, which aims to integrate and ensuer long-term access to large quantities of heterogeneous digital resources from many different institutions.
- Targeted Access for Varied Audiences to Integrated, Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2003 ASIS&T Annual Conference. The poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History project, which aims to integrate and ensure long-term access to large quantities of heterogeneous digital resources from many different institutions.
- The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Information Resources: Lessons from Texas History Portal [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2005 IS&T Archiving Conference. This poster describes issues related to portal building and explores compliance and interoperability issues. It also assesses the current status and the emerging trends in innovative uses of portal technologies and provides an overall scenario.
- The Issues of Compliance and Interoperability in Integrating Heterogeneous Digital Resources: Lessons from the Texas History Portal
- Paper for the 2005 IS&T Archiving Conference. This article discusses the issues of compliance and interoperability in integrating heterogeneous digital resources and lessons from the Texas History Portal.
- A Metadata Approach to Preservation of Digital Resources: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience
- Article discussing metadata approaches to preservation of digital resources and the experiences of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
- Emerging Trends and Evolving Issues in Open Access and Scholarly Communications
- Presentation for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses emerging trends and evolving issues in open access and scholarly communication.
- Lifecycle Management of ETDs: Toward A Collaborative Approach To Stakeholders' Involvement In ETDs Curation
- This presentation discusses the management and curation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). It highlights and discusses the early findings of an IMLS-funded project on Lifecycle Management of ETDs.
- "Mapping the Southwest": UNT-UTA Collaborative Project
- This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to digitize 5,000 historically-significant, rare maps of the American southwest.
- Mapping the Southwest Project: Putting the Region's Maps Online
- This poster discusses the Mapping the Southwest Project, involving putting our region's maps online. The poster includes background information on the project, the project plan, workflow and equipment, and the impacts and lessons learned.
- Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience
- Paper accompanying a poster for the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Conference. Paper discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' digital libraries' implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
- Integrating Controlled Vocabularies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Portal to Texas History Experience [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2007 ASIS&T Annual Conference. This poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital libraries implementations experience. It discusses various scenarios and strategies for integrating controlled vocabularies in the uncontrolled digital library world.
- Curating the Southwest Region's Maps: UNT-UTA Collaborative Project
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference discussing the Mapping the Southwest project. Mapping the Southwest was a 3-year project (2010-2013) funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) We the People grant. This presentation discusses the background of the project, the goals and activities, impacts, and lessons learned.
- Gathering Customer Input Prior to Home Page Redesign: An Ontological Study
- Document accompanying a poster presentation on an ontological study of customer input prior to a home page redesign.
- Gathering Customer Input Prior to Home Page Redesign: An Ontological Study [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2002 AMIA Annual Symposium. This poster discusses an ontological study on gathering input prior to home page redesign.
- Digitization of Government Information
- Report submitted by an American Libraries Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) ad hoc committee charged to "create a report advising GODORT on the best practices and procedures in the digital library field and advise GODORT on the most effective organizational structure for support of the government information community in pursuing digital library initiatives" (p. 2).
- Factors Affecting Selection of Information Sources: A Study of Ramkhamhaeng University Regional Campuses Graduate Students
- Poster presented at the 2011 International iConference. This poster presents research conducted on students at Ramkhamhaeng University (RU).
- Organizational Alignment
- This paper discusses organizational alignment and digital preservation.
- Open Access: The Global Scene
- Presentation for a panel at the 2014 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This panel presentation discusses global open access practices.
- My InfoQuest and the Handheld Librarian
- This presentation discusses My InfoQuest, a service that lets you text a question to a librarian and receive a quick response on your mobile device.
- Setting S.M.A.R.T. Goals For Smart Staff Development
- This presentation discusses setting goals for staff. This presentation will talk about writing SMART goals that are clear and achievable and that meet the needs of the organization and its individuals for training.
- Using Assessment to Guide Strategic Planning
- This presentation discusses using assessments to guide strategic planning.
- Getting to know you... LEAP
- This presentation discusses LEAP and getting to know students, mentors, and the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Information faculty.
- Altmetrics: New Ways of Measuring Research Impact
- Presentation for a workshop on altmetrics and new ways of measuring research impact. The workshop shows how the behavior of scholars is changing and how these changes are being monitored to show research impact in new ways.
- Evaluating Collections on a Regular Basis
- Presentation for the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group meeting at the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses a service at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to evaluate collections on a regular basis.
- The Overhaul of Collection Evaluation
- Poster presented at the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Annual Conference. This poster discusses research on a project by the UNT Libraries' Collection Development Department on an expanded collection assessment beyond the bounds of accreditation reviews.
- Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then...
- This paper accompanies a poster presentation on patron driven acquisitions. The ups and downs of initiating and assessing a patron acquisitions program at the University of North Texas (UNT) will be highlighted. Emphasis will be placed on changing the philosophy of collection development, how to start the program (through a jobber or direct), coordinating print and electronic acquisitions processes, and assessing the first year's purchases.
- Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then... [Poster]
- This poster discusses patron driven acquisitions. The ups and downs of initiating and assessing a patron acquisitions program at the University of North Texas (UNT) will be highlighted. Emphasis will be placed on changing the philosophy of collection development, how to start the program (through a jobber or direct), coordinating print and electronic acquisitions processes, and assessing the first year's purchases.
- Studying Distance Students: Methods, Findings, Actions
- In this presentation, the authors discuss methods for assessing the needs of distance students and for effectively gathering input, emphasizing technology that did and did not work. The authors also identify ways to evaluate what was learned and to work with librarians and faculty.
- 11,664 kilometers across the sea: Bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands
- Presentation for the 2013 International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Conference. This presentation discusses the LEAP program at UNT and bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands.
- Book Reviews in an Electronic Age
- Poster presented at the 2012 IAMSLIC Annual Conference. This poster discusses research on book reviews in marine and aquatic journals to gain insight into the characteristics of the reviews and their value to librarians and research.
- The Fear of Extinction before Enlightenment
- This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 20th Annual Juried members Exhibition.
- One Bookmark to Rule Them All: How the use of a bookmark linked to the Librarian's LibGuides profile can empower research and serve the instructional materials needs of the Librarian
- Poster presented at the Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference. This poster discusses how the use of a bookmark linked to the Librarian's LibGuides profile can empower research and serve the instructional materials needs of the Librarian.
- Spiritual Anatomy: In the Image of the Universal Mind
- This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 21st Annual Juried Members Exhibition.
- What is it Worth? A Guide to Art Valuation and Market Resources
- This article serves as an introduction to new and mostly free online art auction and market sites and some traditional paper resources that are essential to answer reference questions about art value.
- Creating Value Beyond the Library: Best Practices for Embedded Librarianship
- Presentation for the 2013 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation discusses creating value beyond the library and best practices for embedded librarianship.
- Encouraging Digital Scholarship in Graduate Education
- Panel presentation for the 2015 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses strategies for encouraging digital scholarship in graduate education.
- Lessons Learned: Digitization of Cooke County Ledgers
- This paper describes a grant project to digitize Cooke County, Texas ledgers. The project was funded in part by the National Historic Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) and involves digitizing and hosting several rare and unique collections representative of the Civil War. The UNT Archives partnered with the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit (DPU), which managed all stages of the digitization. This paper describes and examines the process the DPU implemented to digitize the Cooke County ledger collection; in doing so, it provides insight into the problems one might encounter, as well as recommendations for institutions that may be considering similar digital projects.
- Adventures in Digital Preservation (and how not to lose your way)
- Presentation for the 2013 Conservation Savvy: From Expert to DIY Conference. This presentation discusses adventures in digital preservation and how not to lose your way.
- At The Portal to Texas History
- This video presents The Portal to Texas History collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. It shows images from the collections including photographs, maps, newspapers, text documents, and objects.
- Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?
- This presentation discusses the costs and values of digital collections. It looks at the digital collections held at the University of North Texas (UNT) and does a cost comparison of the options based on their choices including the expenses that are related to building their digital collections.