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2018 Census: Games in Libraries

Description: Presentation for Games in Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 2019. This presentation provides a snapshot of the previous census and discusses about the current state of gaming in libraries including types of games and equipment, online digital games, licensing, staffing budgets issues. Based on the analysis and synthesis of the survey feedback, the presentation speculates about common issues and what the future bring.
Date: May 31, 2019
Creator: Robson, Diane; Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Brannon, Sian

Adding Some Bam! Pow! Boom! to Your Outreach with Comics: A Roundtable Discussion

Description: This roundtable presentation and discussion provides an overview of outreach efforts at the UNT Libraries organized under the Comics Studies@UNT initiative from 2017-2019. It includes a discussion of the purposes and impact of doing outreach and programming using unique collections like comics & graphic novels to engage a diverse array of interdisciplinary and cross-cultural audiences, and to support ongoing research and teaching with these collections.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Martin, John Edward; Griffith, Bobby & Condrey, Coby

Assessing a Professional Development Program for Academic Librarians

Description: This presentation describes how measures of need, participation, satisfaction, and impact are used to assess many aspects of a professional development program in a large academic library. It was presented at the Mountain Plains Library Association Conference of 2019 in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: October 31, 2019
Creator: Harker, Karen; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine

Assessing an Academic Library Mentoring Program

Description: Considering the importance of mentoring not only for early career librarians but for librarians throughout their career, this presentation provides insights about the University of North Texas Libraries' mentoring program goals and detail analysis of assessment and evaluation methods.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine

Assessment of a Faculty Mentoring Program Using Validated Instruments

Description: This presentation focuses on the faculty mentoring program for librarians at the University of North Texas. They used validated instruments to ensure the quality of the program. It was presented at the Texas Association for Higher Education Assessment Conference in 2019.
Date: October 2, 2019
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine

Automating Authority Control Procedures

Description: This handout was given out as part of a presentation called "Automating the Authority Control Process." The presentation described the process UNT's library has transformed authority control process into a largely automatic process with the help of vendors and specialized software. This handout provides more detailed procedures than the presentation. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 conference at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Wolf, Stacey

Automating the Authority Control Process

Description: This presentation describes the process UNT's library has transformed authority control process into a largely automatic process with the help of vendors and specialized software. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 conference at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Wolf, Stacey

Automating the Authority Control Process

Description: Presentation for Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference 2019. This presentation argues that Authority control is an important part of cataloging since it helps provide consistent access to names, titles, subjects, and genre/forms. There are a variety of methods for providing authority control, ranging from manual, time-consuming processes to automated processes. However, the automated processes often seem out of reach for small libraries when it comes to using a pr… more
Date: May 13, 2019
Creator: Wolf, Stacey

Automating the Authority Control Process Notes

Description: These are the presentation notes for "Automating the Authority Control Process." The presentation described the process UNT's library has transformed authority control process into a largely automatic process with the help of vendors and specialized software. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 conference at Texas Woman's University in Denton, Texas.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
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Beyond “Set It and Forget It”: Proactively Managing Your EZproxy Server

Description: This article describes a half-day pre-conference workshop focused on the ins and outs of managing an EZproxy server. The presenter shared detailed information on how to use the EZproxy admin page to help reduce patrons’ barriers to access and identify potential security concerns. She also covered current topics of interest to the EZproxy community, such as how to modify database stanzas to support https.
Date: January 11, 2019
Creator: Rosenfeld, Jenny & Enoch, Todd

Breaking Down Barriers to Accessing Technical Literature on Opaque Microcard

Description: Poster presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL-2019). This poster discusses the Challenges of Microcards and UNT's collaborative project in partnership with the Technical Reports Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) that investigates the maturity of technologies that can be used to digitize microcards.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Milburn,Morgan C. & Phillips, Mark Edward

Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data

Description: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and prop… more
Date: May 9, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.

Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data

Description: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and prop… more
Date: May 9, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.

Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data

Description: Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2019 Membership Meeting. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for the sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a… more
Date: April 8, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
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Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data

Description: Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2019 Membership Meeting. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for the sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a… more
Date: April 8, 2019
Duration: 19 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.

Building Specialized Collections from Web Archives

Description: Presentation given at the Artificial Intelligence for Data Discovery and Reuse (AIDR) 2019 conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This presentation discusses 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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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

Cataloging for Makerspaces

Description: This poster shares how makerspace items are cataloged by UNT Libraries and how they benefit the library. It was presented at the Mountain Plains Library Association 2019 Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: October 31, 2019
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin
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Cataloging for Makerspaces

Description: Although many school libraries include makerspaces, their catalogs do not always provide information about makerspace resources. Cataloging these resources can benefit school library users and staff in several ways. This article argues that how cataloging increases the visibility of the makerspace collection not only by making the items accessible for catalog users, but also facilitating browsing by collocating similar resources.
Date: 2019
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin

Cataloging Resources for School Librarians

Description: Presentation for the Texas Library Association (TLA- 2019) conference, sponsored by The Texas Association of School Librarians (TASL) Division. This presentation discusses about the available cataloging tools and resources with particular emphasis for School Librarians.
Date: April 2019
Creator: Hauser, Bonnie & Freiley, Melissa
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A Census of Game Collections in Libraries: Final Report

Description: This report documents the Census of Game Collections in Libraries project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant. The project set out to collect data on games in libraries' collection, house the data in the UNT repository to make it available to anyone, and establish a process to complete more in the future. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
Date: July 17, 2019
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Robson, Diane
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