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Metadata Practices of Academic Libraries in Kuwait, Oman, and Qatar: Current State, Risks, and Perspectives for Knowledge Management

Developing, implementing, and managing metadata is crucial to successful knowledge management, and academic libraries have traditionally played a central role in these activities. The Arabian Gulf countries are underrepresented in the existing research into library metadata practices. This exploratory study used semi-structured interviews of metadata managers at 8 universities with the goal of developing understanding of the current state of metadata practices, including descriptive cataloging,… more

Date: June 2022

Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Aljalahmah, Saleh

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT College of Information

Neurodiverse STEM Students and the Academic Library

This presentation discusses about Neurodiverse STEM Students that characterized by neurologically-based variations in patterns of thought or behavior including: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), ADHD, Dyslexia, Dyspraxia. The presentation identifies available support in the Academic Library and classroom.

Date: July 19, 2019

Creator: Anderson, Chelsea & O'Toole, Erin

Item Type: Presentation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: New Reports and Findings

This report looks at how staff at eight academic institutions gained new insight about how students and faculty use their libraries, and how the staff are using these findings to improve library technologies, space, and services. Participatory design is a relatively recent approach to understanding library user behavior. It is based on techniques used in anthropological and ethnographic observation. The report is based on a series of presentations at the second CLIR Seminar on Participatory Des… more

Date: February 2014

Creator: Council on Library and Information Resources

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Psychiatric Disorders Among Opioid Dependents: Socioeconomic and Gender Difference

The psychiatric disorder rates among opioid dependents have alarmingly increased over the last decades, and these disorders are higher for women than men and higher for individuals in low socioeconomic groups. Previous knowledge asserted that opioids had no addictive or harmful effects that could lead to psychiatric disorders, but the recent discovery of opioid-related knowledge reversed the existing belief. The purpose of this research is to discover how the new knowledge has changed regarding… more

Date: June 2022

Creator: Kim, Yong-Mi

Item Type: Text

Partner: UNT College of Information

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Scholarly Communications Librarian

The Future Academic Librarian’s Toolkit is a thorough handbook designed to guide future academic librarians from library school through first several years. This chapter specifically focused on scholarly communications librarian, which is a relatively recent area of professional focus for academic librarians.

Date: 2019

Creator: Martin, John Edward

Item Type: Book Chapter

Partner: UNT Libraries

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Teaming up with Your Graduate School for Academic and Career Success

As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate student community are essential. This chapter describes how the Library Research Support Services Department (LRSS) of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has collaborated with The Toulouse Graduate School (TGS) to support graduate students through the process of achieving the following three milestones: (1) writing the dissertation or … more

Date: 2018

Creator: O'Toole, Erin; Barham, Rebecca; Monahan, Jo & Smith, Susan

Item Type: Book Chapter

Partner: UNT Libraries