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- OA usage reporting: Understanding stakeholder needs and advancing trust through shared infrastructure
- Article describes how the complexity of usage reporting for open access content continues to grow, particularly with content syndication to organizations such as ScienceDirect and ResearchGate, which deliver content across multiple platforms at an unprecedented scale. This paper brings together four different perspectives and walk through what is known, then start to unpack the questions for which they do not have answers.
- Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Languages and Literatures
- Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of languages and literatures. This collection analysis was focused on the four languages which undergraduates and graduate degrees are offered, including literatures and cultures.
- Engaging with the IR Remotely
- Book chapter exploring approaches and methods of engaging with an institutional repository (IR) remotely.
- Creating a Sustainable Professional Development Program
- Article describing a professional development program for academic librarians at a large research university that has been operating continuously for eight years. Multiple components of the program and their related practices and procedures contribute to its longevity and continuing relevance for librarians.
- In the Know UNT Library Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Activities
- Presentation highlighting the activities of the UNT Libraries regarding DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility). It was hosted by the UNT Libraries' Dean Council and the Library Council for Diversity and Inclusion.
- Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative (TALI)
- This report documents the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative (TALI) project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
- Special Collections Spanish Translation Pilot Project
- This report documents the Special Collections Spanish Translation Pilot Project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes the project purpose, activities, budget, outcomes and best practices, and program continuity.
- Public Health and Health Communications Collection Evaluation Report
- This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Public Health and Health Communications collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
- Improving Subjects in the Digital Collections with Data: White Paper
- White paper discussing the results of a public survey regarding keyword assignment for digital library photographs and providing initial analysis regarding the responses and next steps for the project.
- An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia
- This presentation covers a study conducted on tourism in Ethiopia. The study used an Ontology approach to research how Ethiopian tourism destination information can be supported with a machine-readable and interoperable model, be made visible and accessible to both international and local tourists, and improve reusability, integrity, and retrieval of tourist information in Ethiopia.
- Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo, Afro-Asiatic Language in Ethiopia
- Presentation that reports on a research study to develop Speaker Independent, Continuous Speech Recognizer for Kafi Noonoo (Afro-Asiatic language that belongs to North Omotic sub family in Ethiopia).
- Open Access and Scholarly Communication
- Presentation on the concepts of open access and scholarly communication. This presentation covers the background of these topics and their definitions, tools and policies for open access, technology and emerging trends, challenges/opportunities that open access faces, and ultimately relates this information to open access initiatives in developing countries.
- Associations Between Psychopathy and the Trait Meta-Mood Scale in Incarcerated Males: A Combined Latent Variable- and Person-Centered Approach
- Article describes study which sought to replicate and extend current knowledge on the relevance of emotion regulation (ER) for psychopathy, focusing on a sample of incarcerated adult males.
- Using Metadata Record Graphs to understand controlled vocabulary and keyword usage for subject representation in the UNT theses and dissertations collection
- This article discusses the use of network analysis through the creation Metadata Record Graphs to analyze the interconnectedness of subject and keywords in the University of North Texas Theses and Dissertations collection. The analysis compares overlap of controlled terms (Library of Congress Subject Headings) and uncontrolled terms (keywords), as well as the effects of basic format normalization (to simulate editing values for consistency) to evaluate how well subjects connect in the collection.
- The collection assessment is done...now what?
- This presentation discusses how the UNT Libraries approaches collection assessment and its follow-up actions. It touches on the nature of collection evaluation in libraries in general and how UNT's assessment strategy employs a subject-oriented perspective in particular. It was presented at the Library Assessment Conference of 2018 in Houston, Texas.
- Assessing the Success of a Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians
- Presentation for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. This presentation describes the assessment of a mentoring program at an academic library.
- Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance
- This article studies the marketing practices of predatory journals through the analysis of a a subset of the 1,816 e-mails received by a single university biology faculty member during a 24-month period.
- Information Fluency Initiative: Curriculum Mapping Group Procedures and Timeline Report
- This report documents the University of North Texas Libraries Curriculum Mapping Group's meetings, relevant annotated bibliography, the logic model for the project, and a sample curriculum map.
- Discovering What’s between the Dashes with The Portal to Texas History
- This article describe the use of The Portal to Texas History for Texas genealogical research.
- Copyright Workflow for the Institutional Repository
- Presentation on the methods for discovering publisher policies and gaining permissions to make previously published works available through an institutional repository. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative - Scholarly Communication & Digital Curation Affinity Group meeting on December 16, 2016 at the Dick Smith Library at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, Texas.
- Enhancing Bibliographic Access to Dissertations
- This article discusses a study of dissertation cataloging practices of Association of Research Libraries academic libraries to discern how the libraries provide access to subjects as well as to names of academic departments and advisors.
- Assessment of Cataloging Services in an Academic Library
- This article contains survey data on cataloging services as assessed by personnel in the Public Services Division and the Catalog and Metadata Services Department.
- The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan
- Article on the evolution of publishing agreements at the University of Michigan Library. Taking as an example an open-access journal with a single editor, this article discusses the various configurations of rights agreements used by the University of Michigan Library throughout the evolution of its publishing operation, the advantages of the various models, and the reasons for moving from one to another.
- The Portal to Texas History, a DPLA Service Hub
- Presentation at the University of Texas at Austin. This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History as a Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
- Culinary Indexers' Reference Sources
- In this article, the author presents a bibliography of reference sources recommended by culinary indexers.
- Customer Service in the Library
- Presentation to the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Access Services student assistants. This presentation discusses customer service in the library.
- Online Profiles and Unique Author Identifiers
- Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Winter Meeting. This presentation discusses online profiles and unique author identifiers, their importance, features, and strategies for successfully using them.
- Digitization Guidelines and Practices in a Federal Depository Library
- Presentation for the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) Virtual Conference. This presentation discusses digitization guidelines and practices in a Federal Depository Library.
- It Takes A Village To Save The Web: The End Of Term Web Archive
- Article discussing the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project of the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas, the California Digital Library, and the United States Government Printing Office.
- The Portal to Texas History: Technology Overview
- This presentation discusses the technology utilized for The Portal to Texas History. It outlines the infrastructure for managing digital content and gives an overview of how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries built and maintains The Portal to Texas History.
- Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow
- Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) 2012 Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the early findings from an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project hosted by the University of North Texas (UNT) that is researching and documenting a range of life cycle curation and preservation practices for Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
- iCAMP: Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve
- This presentation discusses the iCAMP project; Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve. It discusses research data management curricula gaps, a summary of other key projects and findings, the iCAMP project aims and research methodology, gives a review of iCAMP results, and offers questions raised for the future.
- UNT Libraries Digital Infrastructure
- This presentation discusses the digital infrastructure of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. It gives a timeline of the UNT Libraries' digital projects with examples.
- Getting to know you... LEAP
- This presentation discusses LEAP and getting to know students, mentors, and the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Information faculty.
- End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive: PDF Content Analysis
- This presentation discusses the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries collaborated with members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) on the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Harvest from October, 2008 to February, 2009. The project team archived 160,211,356 URIs during this collaboration, which became a research dataset for an IMLS-funded grant to investigate collection development using web archives. The project team analyzed the 10,318,073 PDFs and developed a retrieval and exploration system for collection developers interested in acquiring and developing born-digital collections from the End of Term Web Archive.
- Integrating Image-Based Research Datasets into an Existing Digital Repository Infrastructure
- Article on integrating image-based research datasets into an existing digital repository infrastructure.
- ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012
- Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.
- The Library Publishing Coalition Project
- Presentation for the 2012 CNI Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the Library Publishing Coalition Project.
- The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States
- This article discusses a bellwether regarding a nation's electronic information infrastructure, the legal regulations that govern the infrastructure, the resulting citizen-trust in its government and its e-readiness in seven countries.
- Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation: Community Briefing on the ANADP 2011 Summit
- Presentation for the 2011 Coalition of Networked Information (CNI) meeting discussing the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Summit, held in the capital of Estonia in May 2011.
- Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination
- Article on marketing your library collection to your community and becoming a destination for information.
- World AIDS Day
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on HIV/AIDS. This series features Dr. Mark Vosvick, associate professor of psychology, Dr. Chwee-Lye Chng, regents professor of kinesiology, health promotion, and recreational studies, Dr. Joseph R. Oppong, professor of geography, and Dr. Ami R. Moore, associate professor of sociology.
- Gender and authorship in The Indexer, 1958-2007
- Article on gender and authorship in The Indexer from 1958 through 2007.
- Preserving Public Government Information: The 2008 End of Term Crawl Project
- This presentation explains the End of Term Presidential Harvest, a collaborative project to preserve U.S. Government web sites at the end of the 2008 Presidential election. The Library of Congress, Internet Archive, California Digital Library, University of North Texas, and the US Government Printing Office were the participating organizations for this project.
- E-Government and Libraries Helpful Resources
- Article on e-government services and how libraries can provide helpful online government resources.
- Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, December 2008
- This report is the second interim performance report for the project titled: Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework. The reporting period is July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. The report includes three sections: Interim Goals and Accomplishments, Significant Findings and Accomplishments, and Project Achievements and Lessons Learned.
- Assessment Path Final Report
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report describes the major assessment activities, their contributions to the project, and key findings. The assessment work areas included needs assessment, collection planning, and WAS evaluation.
- Prioritization of WAS Enhancement Ideas
- This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. Several enhancement ideas for future releases of the Web Archiving Service (WAS) have been identified. In order to refine and prioritize these ideas as well as elicit new enhancement ideas, 16 project curators participated in an online exercise between November 27 and December 16, 2007. The exercise employed a Delphi technique that consisted of a series of three online questionnaires, each available for a five or six day period. This report describes the exercise and reports the results.
- Circulation Myth Busters!
- This presentation discusses circulation in the libraries and what the policies, processes, services, and resources are for the UNT Libraries circulation department.
- Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape
- This presentation gives a brief overview of the collaborative efforts of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit and its partners in digitization projects.