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3D Printable Numbers Type Setting Kit
Individual 3D dataset files for numbers 1 through 9 type pieces.
3D Printable Uppercase Type Setting Kit
Individual 3D dataset files for uppercase type letters A through Z.
3D Printable Lowercase Type Setting Kit
Individual 3D dataset files for lowercase type letters a through z.
3D Printable Punctuation and Spaces Type Setting Kit
Individual 3D dataset files for Punctuation and type setting spaces. Punctuation pieces include ampersand, apostrophe, colon, comma, double parentheses, forward slash, period, question mark, and semi colon. Space pieces include three em, four em, 5 em, em quad, and en quad.
Making Music Accessible in the UNT Digital Libraries
This report documents the "Making Music Accessible in the UNT Digital Libraries" project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the project purpose, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and program continuity.
Roles and Responsibilities of Cataloging Managers: An Updated Study of Job Advertisements
Article based on a research study to determine employers' current expectations of cataloging managers in academic libraries. A second purpose was to examine how these expectations have changed since 2008. Through deductive thematic content analysis and a univariate approach, researchers identified new trends in cataloging manager job requirements, including additional technology responsibilities and a growing emphasis on diversity and inclusion.
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.
Government Documents for the Family Historian
Presentation for the Tulsa City-County Library. This presentation discusses how government information can be used for genealogical research and example information types found within government documents.
Collaboration, Creativity and Collections: Historical Preservation for Alabama Communities.
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses two traveling postcard exhibits, physical and digital, created by Troy University Libraries and Troy University's International Center for Collaboration and Creativity (iC3).
Advocates for Disability Rights: Building the Texas Disability History Collection
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation provides an overview of the University of Texas at Arlington Libraries' Texas Disability History Collection.
All the News That's Fit to Mine: Text Mining and Topic Modeling Newspaper Usage in Scholarly Literature
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses the use of the JSTOR Data for Research (DfR) tool to examine the occurrence of newspapers in scholarly literature and analyze the disciplines and key terms associated with journal articles that use newspapers in their research.
Breakdowns in Machine Reading: Attempting to De-privilege Modern English Print with the Power of Supercomputing and the DH Dashboard
Presentation for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation is part of a panel addressing the constructive limitations of decolonializing DH by reflecting on the "Reading the First Books" project currently underway at the University of Texas at Austin. This presentation speaks to the project's technical breakdowns in machine reading.
2015 FIFA Corruption Scandal Twitter Dataset
This dataset is comprised of tweets that are related to the 2015 FIFA corruption scandal. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 8,615,937 Tweets make up the combined dataset.
3D Printing Book History: Extending bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing
Presented at the 2017 Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference. This seminar focuses on work extending bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing
Are print books REALLY dead? Exploring the relationship between technology acceptance and the use of e-books at a large research university
This presentation discusses a study of undergraduate students at the University of North Texas to understand factors related to students' intent to use and actual use of e-books.
Promoting Positive Changes with Assessment in a Public Services Setting
This presentation discusses the positive aspects of change using the case study of UNT Libraries' Public Services setting, as well as how public services impacts students, faculty, and community members.
The Case for a Publishing Analytics Data Alliance
This presentation discusses Project Meerkat, a project aimed “to develop guidelines and standards for digital scholarly monograph usage data and to construct a neutral organizational apparatus for the ongoing collection and aggregation of data about these scholarly publications,” and the resulting cooperative to be developed out of that project, the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.
Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library
This presentation discusses succession planning through mentoring, including an overview of survey results with a special focus on succession planning and mentoring within academic libraries.
The Whole Picture - One Library's Assessment Activities
This presentation provides an overview of UNT's assessment activities in preparation for a new library strategic plan and campus SACS reaccreditation.
The Status of Research Data Management in the United States
Presentation for the first Open Data Hackathon at UNT, organized as part of International Open Data Day. This presentation discusses the status of research data management in the United States and the challenges, opportunities, and emerging trends.
Altmetrics: New Ways of Measuring Research Impact
Presentation for a workshop on altmetrics and new ways of measuring research impact. The workshop shows how the behavior of scholars is changing and how these changes are being monitored to show research impact in new ways.
Digital Libraries Division
Presentation for the UNT Libraries Dean's Coffee. This presentation offers updates and information on the Digital Libraries Division.
Open Access Publishing Fees: Responses, Strategies and Emerging Trends
Presentation for the 2014 SWALL Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses open access, publishing fees, article processing charges, and research on campus open access funds.
Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management
Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes the roles of metadata in facilitating the ETD lifecycle, methods to capture metadata manually and automatically, examples of programs using metadata to enhance ETD access, and strategies to manage metadata over time.
Guide to Options for ETD Programs
Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes ETD access policies and intellectual property issues, deposit procedures, repository system options, ETD program management and ETD program services.
11,664 kilometers across the sea: Bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands
Presentation for the 2013 International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Conference. This presentation discusses the LEAP program at UNT and bridging the student support gap to the Pacific Islands.
The Overhaul of Collection Evaluation
Poster presented at the International Association of Aquatic and Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC) Annual Conference. This poster discusses research on a project by the UNT Libraries' Collection Development Department on an expanded collection assessment beyond the bounds of accreditation reviews.
The Impact of Digitizing Resources: Content Partner and User Perspectives
Presentation for the 2012 Digital Frontiers Conference. This presentation discusses research to measure the impact of digital assets in The Portal to Texas History.
The Handbook of Texas: Past and Future
Presentation for the 2012 Digital Frontiers Conference. The central challenge before the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is to seize the unprecedented opportunities of the 'Handbook of Texas' in the digital age in order to reshape how history will be accessed, disseminated, understood, and preserved in the twenty-first century. This presentation describes how the TSHA is facing the challenges along with its plans to realize the opportunities.
QR Codes: Best Practices and Tips to Help Libraries Market Valuable Electronic Resources
This presentation discusses Quick Response (QR) codes. QR codes leverage the power of smartphones to connect digital data to real-world surfaces. The author provides tips and best practices to help libraries market their valuable electronic resources using QR codes.
Interpreting MARC: Where's the Bibliographic Data?
Article discussing the notion that viewing MARC from a modern technological perspective leads to interpretive problems such as a confusion of "bibliographic data" with "catalog records."
Supporting Faculty Scholarly Activity
This presentation is part of a panel discussion titled Academic Libraries as Partners in Research. This presentation discusses how digital libraries can support faculty scholarly activity, with examples and strategies from the UNT Digital Library collections.
Collection Plan for the CyberCemetery
This report discusses the collection plan for the CyberCemetery, part of the Web-at-Risk project. The topics include the mission and scope, the selection, acquisition, descriptive metadata, presentation and access, maintenance and weeding, and preservation.
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.
Focus Group Report: California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, August 31, 2005
This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Action Plan
This action plan articulates the most significant ecosystem problems for the Great Lakes, and describes efforts to address them. The five areas are toxic substances, invasive species, health and pollution, wildlife and habitat preservation and restoration, and finally a component that covers accountability and evaluation.
Comparison of Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E)
Paper for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This paper describes examinations of various digital asset management systems' (DAMS) capabilities and functions. Evaluation is based on the documentation relating to each package.
Chronopolis, University of North Texas, MetaArchive: Preservation Cooperation
This presentation discusses how preservation systems can share objects and specifically a collaboration between Chronopolis, MetaArchive, and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Challenges in Web Archiving UNT Perspective
This presentation discusses making Web archives more usable for libraries, building digital library collections from Web content, and understanding how Web archives should fit into traditional library metrics.
2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access
Presentation for the 2008 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Annexation of Texas Project
Presentation for the 2003 GODART Preconference at the American Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation outlines the "From Republic to State: Debates and Documents Relating to the Annexation of Texas, 1836-1856" project. This grant funded project involved digitizing 6000 objects.
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