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[Visitors at 'Digitizing Family Collections' table]

Description: Photograph of the 'Digitizing Family Collections' booth at Dallas Heritage Village, where several tables were set up for the DFW Archives Bazaar. There are two volunteers working with two visitors at the table. One volunteer is holding an informational packet that is provided at the table. There are photos, documents, a scanner, and a laptop for instruction as well.
Date: October 14, 2018
Creator: Williamson, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Morgan Gieringer and Evilu Pridgeon during presentation]

Description: Photograph of Morgan Gieringer, head of the UNT Special Collections department, speaking during the DFW Archives Bazaar in the Pilot Grove Church at the Dallas Heritage Village. Gieringer and Evilu Pridgeon gave a presentation titled "Collecting 'The Dallas Way': A Partnership to Preserve LGBTQ Archives at UNT". There are windows, pianos, and a doorway behind Gieringer and Pridgeon is standing near the door.
Date: October 14, 2018
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Southwestern booth in Dallas Heritage Village pavilion]

Description: Photograph of workers and volunteers at booths in the Dallas Heritage Village pavilion where several tables were set up for the DFW Archives Bazaar. The Southwester Baptist Theological Seminary's table is in the foreground and UTA Libraries is in the background. Two workers are adjusting the backdrop for the Southwestern table which is covered in old Biblical manuscripts and information about preserving them.
Date: October 14, 2018
Creator: Williamson, James
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Intangible Qualities of Rare Books: Toward a Decision-Making Framework for Preservation Management in Rare Book Collections, Based Upon the Concept of the Book as Object

Description: For rare book collections, a considerable challenge is involved in evaluating collection materials in terms of their inherent value, which includes the textual and intangible information the materials provide for the collection's users. Preservation management in rare book collections is a complex and costly process. As digitization and other technological advances in surrogate technology have provided new forms representation, new dilemmas in weighing the rare book's inherently valuable charac… more
Date: May 2006
Creator: Sheehan, Jennifer Karr
Partner: UNT Libraries

Texas Heritage Online Wiki

Description: This is the wiki for the Texas Heritage Online project. This project is a collaboration between the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. It is supported in part by funds granted by the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The goal of Texas Heritage Online was to promote collaboration among Texas institutions by establishing common standards, sharing best practices and facilitating cooperative funding to provide online access… more
Date: 2014
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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[News Clip: Cemetery for sale]

Description: Video footage from the NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 31, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 24 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Cemetery for sale]

Description: Video footage from the NBC 5 television station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 31, 2006, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trinity trench]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 24, 1982, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Stockyards]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 23, 1983, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Apollo capsule]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: January 7, 1981, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 54 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Trinity plan]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: April 30, 1986, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 33 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Preservation Awd]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: December 11, 1984, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 28 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fruit embargo]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: March 4, 1981, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 32 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Canoe trip]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: May 20, 1984, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 56 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Outhouse]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about civic groups efforts to preserve history.
Date: February 27, 1971, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Landmark ordinance]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the protection of Dallas Historic landmarks.
Date: January 25, 1971, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Untrammeled by Man? An Ethnographic Approach of Outdoor Recreation Management in Charon's Garden Wilderness

Description: Charon's Garden Wilderness Area within the Wichita Mountains National Wildlife Refuge in Oklahoma is a landscape that is granted federal protection through the Wilderness Act of 1964. The discourse of wilderness management is influenced by governmental policies and practice which organize knowledge surrounding the natural landscape, like with the formation and semantics of the Wilderness Act. The Wilderness Act establishes characteristics that are designed to monitor and control the landscape a… more
Date: December 2018
Creator: Lukins, Gabrielle M
Partner: UNT Libraries

Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories

Description: Presentation examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.
Date: August 23, 2023
Creator: Krahmer, Ana; Gieringer, Morgan Davis & Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: University Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories

Description: Conference paper examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.
Date: November 3, 2023
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis; Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries

Creating, Curating, and Preserving Digital Collections: Preserving the Digital Heritage

Description: Presented at the 2018 Ke Au Hou Pacific Librarianship Conference. This presentation describes a pre-conference workshop that provides attendees with a better understanding of the landscape related to digital preservation and access among cultural heritage institutions, key components in the ongoing process of preserving digital information, and the building blocks of digital preservation systems.
Date: May 1, 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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Exploratory Analysis of Born-Digital Newspaper Content

Description: This paper reports on exploratory investigations by the Texas Digital Newspaper Program to understand aggregate patterns in the generation of born-digital news editions by analyzing technical metadata extracted from the 3 million pages currently in the preservation collection.
Date: October 31, 2016
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
Partner: UNT Libraries Digital Projects Unit
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