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Assessing the Success of Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians

Description: 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.
Date: 2019
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine
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Building Specialized Collections from Web Archiving

Description: Short paper presented at Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR). This short paper presents work on creating datasets of high-value publications and documents from web archives that can be used for machine learning research to help classify these large collections of data.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Caragea, Cornelia & Phillips, Mark Edward
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Data for development: The case for Africa

Description: Conference paper presenting the results of a systematic review of data use practices by African countries to support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) #2 – agriculture.
Date: October 18, 2019
Creator: Assefa, Shimelis; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
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Exploring Open Access Ebook Usage

Description: Environmental scan and recommendations for sharing usage data about OA monographs among stakeholders in scholarly communication
Date: May 6, 2019
Creator: O'Leary, Brian & Hawkins, Kevin S.
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The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

Description: This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Henson, Brea
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Identifying Gaps in Tools and Interfaces for Assessing Metadata Quality

Description: White paper discussing qualitative research conducted by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries regarding perceptions of quality by metadata creators and their managers. These perceptions of metadata quality are intended to identify gaps in tools and interfaces used to create metadata.
Date: February 19, 2019
Creator: Fox, Nathaniel T.; Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
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Metadata Record Graphs for Six Collections from the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

Description: 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 Coll… more
Date: August 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
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Using Metadata Record Graphs to Understand Digital Library Metadata

Description: 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.
Date: September 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Zavalina, Oksana & Tarver, Hannah
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