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- Modular Curation for ETD Repositories
- This paper discusses the Lifecycle Management of ETDs project led by the University of North Texas (UNT) and funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). This paper explains the research methodology the project took to evaluate these various tools, IRs and related submission systems; share findings; and discuss how these findings have solidified implementation improvements for the above mentioned curation technologies (Clam, AV, JHOVE/JHOVE2, DROID & FITS).
- Studying Ourselves: Libraries and the User Experience at UNT
- This presentation was part of a program discussing applications of traditional sociological and anthropological research methods to the study of libraries, librarians and library use. This presentation discusses a user-centered study conducted about the UNT Libraries.
- Textbooks Weighing You Down? Check out our E-Readers [Poster]
- This poster discusses a grant project for purchasing e-book readers as a way of circulating textbooks to college students at the University of North Texas. The poster includes text, a timeline, graphs, photos of marketing materials, and sample survey questions from the project.
- Collaborative Approach to Address Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Challenges
- Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Summer Meeting. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaborative approaches to address scholarly communications and digital curation challenges.
- Bibliography for "Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians"
- This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the 2013 Library Management Institute Summer Conference. This bibliography contains citations for information related to encouraging research and publication among academic librarians.
- Encouraging Research and Publication among Academic Librarians
- Presentation for the 2013 Library Management Institute Summer Conference. This presentation discusses encouraging research and publication among academic librarians. It covers topics on why support is needed, related surveys and methodology, respondents, and library research committees.
- Preparation is Key: Lessons Learned from an ERMS Implementation
- This presentation discusses lessons learned from an Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS).
- Exploring the Evolving Landscape of Open Access
- Presentation for a workshop at the 2013 Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the impact of open access for students, the impact of open access on universities, and the impact of open access on publishing practices.
- The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto
- Poster for 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This poster discusses the Denton Declaration, an open data manifesto created in May 2012 at the University of North Texas (UNT).
- How Digital Libraries can Create a Culture of Open Access on Campus
- Presentation for a panel discussion at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This panel presentation discusses how digital libraries can create a culture of open access on campus. Five panelists discuss their perspectives, strategies, challenges, and progress.
- 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.
- Student-Centered Value Research: Assessment activities of the UNT Libraries
- This presentation discusses student-centered value research and the assessment activities of the UNT Libraries. The UNT Libraries value research initiatives provide a means of measuring the Libraries' contribution to UNT's strategic goals.
- UNT Libraries Budget Increase Analysis 2013: A proposal to increase the budget of the University of North Texas Libraries to meet the needs of the campus
- Report put together at the invitation of the University of North Texas (UNT) President at the 2013 budget hearings. This report was prepared to inform a budget increase decision for the UNT Libraries.
- Quality Customer Service on a Budget
- Presentation on offering quality customer service on a budget. The author explains how the UNT Libraries improved workflows and services offered while cutting expenditures.
- Open Letter to the UNT Community: Planning for FY13 Library Budget Reductions - April 11, 2013
- Letter to the University of North Texas (UNT) community from the Dean of the UNT Libraries, Dr. Martin Halbert. This letter discusses planning for the 2013 fiscal year library budget reductions.
- Improving Access to Web Archives through Innovative Analysis of PDF Content
- This paper discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. The paper discusses the overall workflow and describes the tools used to extract document features. Findings suggest opportunities for the development of retrieval tools that will provide new ways of selecting content and building collections from large Web archives.
- Reducing Service Points in the Academic Library: How to Provide Quality Customer Service in the Face of Budget Cuts
- This paper discusses how to provide quality customer service in the face of budget cuts.
- In With The New: Adapting To Change Using ILLiad
- This presentation discusses adapting to change using ILLiad.
- Finding High Level Evidence in PubMed
- The presentation defines high level evidence in medical literature and demonstrates how to find it using MeSH and Clinical Queries.
- Do They (Or We) Know It's Clipping? Sound Quality and the Music Librarian's Role in Educating Younger Listeners
- Presentation for the 2013 Music Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses sound quality and the music librarian's role in educating younger listeners.
- UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Alzheimer's Disease and Dementia. This series features Dr. Meharvan Singh, professor and chair of the Department of Pharmacology and Neurosciencea at the UNT Health Science Center, Dr. Bert Hayslip, regents professor in the Department of Psychology, and Kyle Page, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Psychology.
- Teaching RDA: A First Attempt
- This presentation discusses teaching Resource Description and Access (RDA). The author describes a first attempt at teaching two students RDA as part of a formal library-school class on 'Special Problems in Music Cataloging.'
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Creating A Featured Book Display: Marrying old and new technologies
- This Tech Talk presentation describes the process used to select the individual works and the inspiration behind the solution to the problem - a physical representation of a digital object.
- Combined Services Desk Report
- Report for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries on the combined services desk.
- From the Chair: Collaborating for Success
- This article is from the 2013 Chair of the American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODART) discussing collaborating for success.
- From the Chair: Importance of Mentoring
- This article is from the 2013 Chair of the American Library Association (ALA) Government Documents Round Table (GODART) discussing the importance of mentoring.
- Hidden Collections Redux: Summer 2013
- This report is offers an update on the hidden collections at the UNT Libraries. Its purpose is to serve as a true representation of the collections in the UNT Libraries with little or no access.
- Librarians' Career Development Program Assessment Instruments
- This document includes surveys that were developed for the University of North Texas Libraries' Career Development Program which promotes and supports the research, scholarship, and leadership activities of the Libraries' faculty librarians.
- The Problematic Future of Research Data Management: Challenges, Opportunities, and Emerging Patterns Identified by the DataRes Project
- Paper presented at the 8th International Digital Curation Conference on the problematic future of research data management.
- Reengineering The Portal to Texas History
- This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
- It Takes A Village To Save The Web: The End Of Term Web Archive
- Article discussing the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project of the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas, the California Digital Library, and the United States Government Printing Office.
- Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow
- Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) 2012 Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the early findings from an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project hosted by the University of North Texas (UNT) that is researching and documenting a range of life cycle curation and preservation practices for Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
- iCAMP: Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve
- This presentation discusses the iCAMP project; Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve. It discusses research data management curricula gaps, a summary of other key projects and findings, the iCAMP project aims and research methodology, gives a review of iCAMP results, and offers questions raised for the future.
- 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.
- End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive: PDF Content Analysis
- This presentation discusses the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries collaborated with members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) on the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Harvest from October, 2008 to February, 2009. The project team archived 160,211,356 URIs during this collaboration, which became a research dataset for an IMLS-funded grant to investigate collection development using web archives. The project team analyzed the 10,318,073 PDFs and developed a retrieval and exploration system for collection developers interested in acquiring and developing born-digital collections from the End of Term Web Archive.
- ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012
- Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.
- The Library Publishing Coalition Project
- Presentation for the 2012 CNI Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the Library Publishing Coalition Project.
- The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States
- This article discusses a bellwether regarding a nation's electronic information infrastructure, the legal regulations that govern the infrastructure, the resulting citizen-trust in its government and its e-readiness in seven countries.
- UNT Speaks Out On Coming Home
- This video recording is of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home. This series features presentations by Dr. Shelley Riggs, Dr. Adriel Boals, and Doctoral Student Cindy Hasio. Dr. Shelley Riggs is a professor of psychology, director of the Family Attachment Lab, and is conducting the Student Veteran Research Project at the University of North Texas (UNT). She discusses the family relationships of veterans after deployment. Dr. Adriel Boals is professor of psychology and has a grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) to study innovative approaches to understanding and treating Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other responses to trauma and stress. He discusses what PTSD is and what causes it. Cindy Hasio is a doctoral student in the College of Visual Arts and Design. She discusses methods and findings from a project she participated in related to how veterans narrated their experiences through art. Her component of the study evaluated participants and described what they gained through creating arts and crafts. Stuart Presley, Domingo Rodriguez, and James Rumor are a panel of three student veterans who describe their experiences after deployment.
- Veterans' Week: UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home as part of Veterans Week. There will also be a panel of three student veterans describing their experiences after deployment.
- Student Research and Open Access
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out as part of International Open Access Week at the University of North Texas (UNT). This panel discusses student research and open access.
- Food Day [2012]
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Food We Eat. This series features Dr. Dornith Doherty, professor in the College of Arts and Design, Dr. Pankaj Jain, assistant professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and College of Public Affairs and Community Service, and Jennifer Jensen Wallach, associate professor in the College of Arts and Sciences.
- Faculty Research and Open Access
- Poster introducing the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out as part of International Open Access Week at the University of North Texas (UNT).