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- Preliminary Models for a Database of Composition Styles of Twentieth Century Composers
- Paper for the 1992 Music Library Association Contemporary Music Subject Access Roundtable Meeting. This paper discusses preliminary models for a database of composition styles of twentieth century composers.
- Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site
- This paper introduces the concept of web site usability, provides a brief introduction to the techniques, offers examples from two “real life” studies that show how the techniques of formal usability studies, focus groups, and card sorts can be used and offers tips and tricks for employing these techniques.
- Focus Group Report: ALA, Chicago, June, 2005
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
- Development of a portal to Texas history
- Article discussing the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Portal to Texas History.
- Piercing the Curtain: One Composer's Penetration into Eastern European Music Festivals: An Introduction to the Music of Gloria Coates
- Paper presented at the 2005 Women in Music/Contemporary Music Roundtable at the Music Library Association Annual Conference. This paper discusses the music of Gloria Coates and her radio program in Germany.
- My Texas History Notebook: Interactive Lesson Plans for Fourth and Seventh Grade - Grant Materials
- These grant materials were prepared for a project funded by Humanities Texas to develop and present online lesson plans that incorporate the interactive notebook style of learning. This method of teaching combines three pivotal concepts in educational research: spiral curriculum theory, multiple intelligences, and cooperative interaction. This problem-based learning system incorporates preview assignments, multiple intelligences teaching strategies, graphically organized notes, and processing assignments that require students to demonstrate their knowledge. The documents explore the research and methodology behind this style of pedagogy, and the elements of an interactive notebook. A work plan details how the project would work with master teachers to develop this curriculum. The project was funded for $7,200.
- Focus Group Report: University of North Texas - Denton - August 2005
- This report discusses a focus group that was part of the Web-at-Risk project. The report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
- Status Report Period: Fall Semester 2006 (Updated February 15)
- Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report details the status of the project and covers encountered problems and activities.
- XML to Lucene to SRW
- Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report documents procedures of parsing XML records into Lucene index and making those records available via SRW.
- Online College of Music Recordings at the University of North Texas
- Poster presented at the 2008 Music Library Association Annual Conference. This poster discusses online College of Music recordings at the University of North Texas (UNT).
- Update on Digitization at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries
- This presentation gives an update on the digital collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in their Digital Collection and The Portal to Texas History in 2008.
- Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries
- This presentation gives a basic outline of the work flow and processes involved within the Digital Projects Unit. Topics include scanning, digital preservation, and staffing.
- Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)
- This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2009 and the future projects planned.
- jEdit
- This Tech Talks presentation discusses the jEdit text editor. jEdit is an open-source text editor available online which is used within the Digital Projects Lab for programming and for editing XML metadata files. In this Tech Talk, Metadata Librarian Hannah Tarver describes some of the ways that jEdit can be customized to make editing quicker and easier for documents that use mark-up languages or plain text.
- Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Evaluation of Project Outcome: User Satisfaction Report, February 2010
- This report presents information about the IOGENE project. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in December 2007 for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas History. This document reports information about the survey questionnaire, the respondents, the research findings, and includes the positive overall outcome regarding user satisfaction with the work conducted in this project.
- Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Final Project Report, February 2010
- This report discusses a research project conducted by the UNT Libraries. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services for a two-year study to redesign the interface to The Portal to Texas History, a digital library program at the UNT Libraries. This report opens with background information for the project, describes the project's methods and working model, guides the reader through the project's three phases and associated feedback from the review process, and presents the revised model for application development. The report closes with measures of the project's success as well as reflections on the experience gained and its value for future digital library application development projects.
- Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Usability Tests: Summary Report, February 2010
- This is a summary report of the findings of usability tests. The UNT Libraries received a National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services in December 2007 for a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas History and to redesign the interface to the Portal to meet those requirements.
- Storage 101: The Basics
- This presentation discusses storage options for digital content, questions to ask when planning, and things to consider for storing and digitizing data.
- Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)
- This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2010.
- Discover America's Cultural Heritage Collections on the Web
- This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library collections. It also discusses the invisible internet, other Texas digital collections, other large digital collections, major digital collections in other states, subscription databases, and gives strategies for searching all of these databases.
- 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).
- Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals
- Article discussing the proportion of qualitative research over a 10 year period and correlates associated with its publication.
- Gas Well Drilling: What Does it Mean for North Texas?
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling: What Does It Mean for North Texas? Presenters include Dr. David Sterling, from the UNT Health Science Center, Dr. Terry Clower from the Center for Economic Development & Research, and Dr. Robert M. Figueroa from the Department of Philosophy & Religion.
- Emeritus College Presentation Lecture Notes
- These lecture notes accompany a presentation titled 'This Side of the Border: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of American Photographer Otis Aultman.' The lecture notes discuss the fifty-two presentation slides with the topics and details.
- This Side of the Border: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of American Photographer Otis A. Aultman
- This presentation discusses the Mexican Revolution, as seen through the camera lens of American photographer Otis A. Aultman. In 2009, El Paso Public Library's Archivist Marta Estrada received a grant from the UNT Libraries to digitize a portion of their Otis Aultman Photograph Collection and add it to The Portal to Texas History. El Paso Public Library's collection on the Portal consists of more than 500 digitized glass plate negative photographs that documents the Mexican Revolution through the eyes of Mr. Aultman, many of which have not been seen for a century.
- Vendor Relations: From Both Sides
- This presentation discusses vendor services and relations both as a service provider and as a customer of vendor services, in relation to digital libraries.
- Chronicles in Preservation Project
- Paper for the 2012 International iConference. This paper discusses the chronicles in preservation project.
- The DataRes Research Project on Data Management
- Paper for the 2012 International iConference. This presentation discusses data management and the DataRes Project.
- FRBR/FRAD Intentions and RDA: Where are we now?
- This presentation discusses Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR)/ Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD) Intentions and Resource Description and Access (RDA). This presentation includes information on the background and intent of FRBR, FRAD, and RDA, user tasks, and current issues.
- Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow
- Poster presented at the 2012 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Annual Conference discussing the ETD Lifecycle Management project, a collaborative project funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
- Rhapsody in Green: ETDs at the University of North Texas
- This presentation discusses electronic theses and dissertations at the University of North Texas (UNT). UNT began mandatory ETDs for both theses and dissertations in fall 1999, making it the 3rd institution in the world to go "electronic" in this way. There have been challenges along the way, but from the very beginning there has been a close and cordial relationship between the Grad School and the Libraries which serves to "book end" the student's ETD experience in a meaningful and productive way. During this session, UNT's ETD process from start to finish will be explained, especially the ways in which the Grad School and the Libraries work together to enhance the lifecycle management of students' research output at UNT.
- Toward Best Practices in Integrating ETDs and Associated Data: UNT's Approach
- Poster presented at the 2012 Texas ETD Annual Conference. This poster describes the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries approach toward best practices in integrating ETDs and associated data.
- 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.
- Gas Well Drilling
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling. This series features Dr. Adam Briggle, assistant professor of philosophy and religion studies, Dr. Matthew Fry, assistant professor of geography, Dr. Chetan Tiwari, assistant professor of geography and Nathanial Smith, a senior geography major.
- The Life Cycle of Electronic Theses and Dissertations
- This presentation discusses the life cycle of electronic theses and dissertations. The presentation includes a look at ETD programs today, definitions of lifecycle management, ETD lifecycle management challenges, and the IMLS ETD Lifecycle Management Project.
- Classification Of The End-Of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices To Web Archives
- This is the final report for the EOTCD project, which is formally titled 'Classification of the End-of-Term Archive: Extending Collection Development Practices to Web Archives.' The project commenced December 1, 2009 and ended November 30, 2012. The overview includes background information about the End of Term (EOT) 2008 Archive and a brief description of the activities conducted in the project's four work areas. Following the Overview there are three sections: Goals Accomplished; Significant Findings and Accomplishments; and Project Achievements.
- Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE
- Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE.
- Digital Curation Tools: Metadata Enhancement with Selenium IDE [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses metadata enhancement with Selenium IDE.
- Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability
- Paper accompanying a poster for the 2013 International iConference. This paper describes factors that affect digital resource discoverability.
- Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Overview of Factors that Affect Digital Resources Discoverability [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses factors that affect digital resource discoverability and digital curation activities that enhance the visibility of an institutional repository (IR) in an ever-changing digital landscape.
- The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders National Partnership
- Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project.
- The Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project: Multi Stakeholders Partnership [Poster]
- Poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs Project.
- Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Best Practices
- Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2013 International iConference. This paper discusses research on open access publishing fees and article processing charges.
- Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Best Practices [Poster]
- Poster presented at the 2013 International iConference. This poster discusses research on open access publishing fees and article processing charges.
- The Problem of Data: iSchools and the New Data Professional
- Paper outlining a fishbowl discussion event at the 2013 International iConference. The theme of the fishbowl event is data curation, data lifecycle, pedagogy, professional development, and library education.
- Don't judge a book by its Cover: The Human Library
- This poster introduces the lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Human Library. The "books" at this event are people who have volunteered to challenge prejudice through respectful conversation with members of the UNT campus and the greater Denton community who borrow them for fifteen to thirty minute conversation.
- Unplug Your Mouse: Workflow Automation with AutoHotkey
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses workflow automation with AutoHotkey. AutoHotkey provides an easy to use scripting language for assigning multiple actions to a single key command, or hotkey. The AutoHotkey syntax also supports programming constructs and the creation of graphical user interfaces for developing complex applications. This Tech Talk will demonstrate how to write AutoHotkey scripts and give examples of how the Digital Projects Unit is using the software to streamline repetitive tasks.
- One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Issue Timeline
- One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
- One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Issues, Pages, Uses
- One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History
- One Million Pages of Texas Newspapers: Texas Newspapers By County
- One poster visualizing the newspaper title distribution among Texas counties for the first one million pages of Texas newspapers in the Texas Digital Newspaper Collection hosted by The Portal to Texas History