DDA and STEM @ UNT: What we have learned
Date: July 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Description: This presentation discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the University of North Texas (UNT). For the Texas STEM Librarians' Conference, the author will present data and information about the pilot program, and how the Discovery Collection and the purchased titles are distributed, particularly regarding the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. Of particular interest is a scenario analysis of the selections to determine which purchase model would have been most effective for the money spent. This has already impacted decisions being made to expand the program in the next fiscal year.
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Fostering a Culture of Research and Publication in Academic Libraries
Date: July 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Wahl, Diane
Description: This presentation discusses research and publication in academic libraries. A survey of ARL academic library deans and directors was conducted to determine how they encourage the scholarly productivity of librarians. The results indicate that a variety of strategies are used, including mentoring programs, support for external training, library research committees, manuscript editing assistance, software support, student or graduate assistant help, formal training programs, research funding, release time and sabbaticals. Information also was provided about the requirements for promotion, tenure and continuing appointment at ARL libraries.
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Measuring the Impact of Preserving Digital Assets
Date: June 13, 2012
Creator: Belden, Dreanna & Murray, Kathleen R.
Description: This presentation discusses measuring the impact of preserving digital assets. This presentation reports the initial findings of a study of the impact of digitizing assets, specifically: (a) a framework of impact areas and indicators and (b) findings for the Portal's content partners and users.
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Classifying the End-of-Term Archive
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Description: This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive project. Abstract: For users, selecting relevant content from Web archives is often a daunting endeavor. This Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research project, Classification of the End-of-Term Archive, investigated whether link analysis and the cluster analysis were effective techniques for classifying the materials in the EOT Archive to improve discovery. Classification of the resulting clusters by subject matter experts in government information indicated that the structural analysis was not effective at creating clusters of related websites when authored by four or fewer federal government parent agencies. The results also suggested that cluster analysis might be effective at identifying topically related websites across agency authors, which would be highly desirable to both system developers and users. To investigate this, subject matter experts applied subject tags to the websites in two sets of machine-generated clusters. The findings indicate that the cluster analysis successfully identified strongly related content in 61% of clusters.
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Classifying the End of Term Web Archive
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Description: This poster discusses a research project on classifying the End-of-Term Archive. This Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research project investigates whether link analysis and cluster analysis were effective techniques for classifying the materials in the End-of-Term archive to improve discovery.
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Measuring the Impact of Preserving Digital Assets
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Belden, Dreanna
Description: This paper discusses measuring the impact of preserving digital assets. Abstract: The Portal to Texas History is a gateway to humanities collections within the digital library of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries (http://texashistory.unt.edu). Currently, materials from more than 190 content partners are available and the number of partners continues to grow. While ever-increasing numbers of partners and assets are signs that digitally preserving and making resources Web-accessible is a desirable thing, universities, cultural heritage institutions, and funding agencies increasingly expect measurements that report the impact and value resulting from digitizing and preserving assets. Because the Portal is fairly unique in both the number and scope of its content partners, it serves as a good case study for measuring the impact of digitization for two key digital library stakeholder groups: content providers and users. This paper reports the initial findings of a study of the impact of digitizing assets, specifically: (a) a framework of impact areas and indicators, (b) findings for the Portal's content partners and users.
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Enhancing Content Visibility in Institutional Repositories: Maintaining Metadata Consistency Across Digital Collections
Date: May 2012
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Description: This poster discusses enhancing content visibility in institutional repositories and maintaining metadata consistency across digital collections. This poster discusses strategies to deal with the task of maintaining consistency and the creation of and adherence to institutional-specific policies for metadata quality.
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Lifecycle Management of ETDs: Toward A Collaborative Approach To Stakeholders' Involvement In ETDs Curation
Date: May 2012
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Henry, Geneva & Stark, Shannon
Description: 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.
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"Mapping the Southwest": UNT-UTA Collaborative Project
Date: May 2012
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Jones, Jerrell & Hodges, Ann
Description: This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Mapping the Southwest is a 3-year project (2010 to 2013) funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) We the People grant. For this project, the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries partner with the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Library's Special Collections to digitize 5,000 historically-significant (mostly) rare maps. The collection includes maps dating from 1493 to the present and features noted cartographers. While containing maps of all parts of the world, the collection particularly emphasizes the region of the Gulf Coast and the Greater Southwest, which has been defined as the area comprising the state of Texas and the other southwestern states annexed by the United States after the U.S. War with Mexico of 1846-1848. All of the materials digitized for this grant project will be available online for free public access through The Portal to Texas History. More than 1,000 items are already available at http://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/UTAM/browse/. The authors have registered almost 20,000 uses, and as the authors complete the project, the authors expect even more users around the world to access this new collection. ...
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Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video: A Webcast
Date: April 26, 2012
Creator: Stanton, Kimberly
Description: This presentation was given for 'Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video: A Webcast, sponsored by Alexander Street Press and Library Journal. In this presentation, the author discusses when and how video is used in instruction with examples and ideas for increasing faculties' usage of streaming videos.
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