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Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative

Description: Presentation with speakers' notes describing the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. This initiative uses findings documented in recent studies addressing information seeking behaviors of transgender persons and their perceptions of the library to provide more equitable access to their services and collections. The presentation shares the needs assessment, collection development process, promotion and outreach, and next steps related to this initiat… more
Date: July 23, 2021
Creator: Condrey, Coby & Leuzinger, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries

Where Does Information Literacy Fit? Mapping The Core

Description: This presentation highlights a curriculum mapping project at the University of North Texas Libraries. The project seeks to improve the capacity of UNT students for critical thinking and the ability to use information effectively. The key aim of the initiative was to strengthen core library services to enhance high-impact practices. It was presented at the Cross-Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 Conference held by Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.
Date: August 2, 2019
Creator: Hardin, Gregory; Hargis, Carol & Henson, Brea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Heart of Librarianship: A Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

Description: Presentation that provides a summary of the literature on library outreach and indicates how the literature review has impacted outreach developments at the UNT Libraries. Outreach has a positive impact on student success, but a clear definition of what outreach is looms beyond the literature. Intermixed with marketing, advertising, broader engagement methods, and social media use, outreach has become a catch-all term for activities that bring awareness to library resources, services, programs,… more
Date: June 11, 2021
Creator: Henson, Brea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries

The Heart of Librarianship: A Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

Description: Presentation that provides a summary of the literature on library outreach and indicates how the literature review has impacted outreach developments at the UNT Libraries. Outreach has a positive impact on student success, but a clear definition of what outreach is looms beyond the literature. Intermixed with marketing, advertising, broader engagement methods, and social media use, outreach has become a catch-all term for activities that bring awareness to library resources, services, programs,… more
Date: August 12, 2021
Creator: Henson, Brea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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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
Item Type: Refine your search to only Paper
Partner: UNT Libraries

Mindful Study Breaks

Description: This presentation is a workshop that provides a structured program of five mindfulness exercises to help individuals learn how to develop mindfulness practices that may be useful when studying. The program is connected to an optional research study on mindfulness programming in libraries.
Date: February 16, 2022
Creator: Henson, Brea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Using Curriculum Mapping to Understand Information Literacy in Political Science Curricula

Description: Article presenting a curriculum mapping study of noncore course offerings in political science curricula by an early-career librarian. It combines syllabi study and curriculum mapping methods to analyze the language of student learning objectives (SLOs) from course syllabi and to integrate SLOs with threshold concepts from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric. The methods produce two sample sets: one of core concept rep… more
Date: October 5, 2023
Creator: Henson, Brea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries

Zen Librarianship-Moving Toward a Praxis of Zen Librarianship: Expanding Librarianship with Mindfulness

Description: Presentation on creating a Praxis of Zen Librarianship which frames reference and research assistance practices in academic libraries with theory and contemplative methodologies. It is a supplementary resource to a poster presented at the Texas Library Association Conference held April 19-22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.
Date: April 19, 2017
Creator: Henson, Brea
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Case of Jekyll and Hub

Description: Conference proceedings of a revised script for a presentation describing the process to create an annotated bibliography using GitHub so multiple users could access and contribute to it. The authors share some background, learning resources, problems, and how to contribute to the GitHub site.
Date: unknown
Creator: Henson, Brea & Andrews, Pamela
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Making Meetings More Meaningful: An Exploration of Meeting Science in Libraries

Description: This article adds to the growing body of research in meeting science, explored from a library perspective. The authors investigate the predictors of success for productive meetings, librarian perceptions of effective meeting leadership, and best practices for meeting leadership.
Date: May 12, 2021
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Brannon, Sian
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries
open access

Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative (TALI)

Description: 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.
Date: December 20, 2021
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Condrey, Coby
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries
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