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Interviews with SIG/III Co-founders: Reflections of Toni Carbo and Michel Menou
Article discussing interviews with the Special Interest Group/International Information Issues (SIG/III) co-founders Toni Carbo and Michel Menou.
Digital Repository: Promoting Scholarship via the convergence of (local/global and digital/analogue) contents
Presentation at Jimma University discussing digital repositories and promoting scholarship through the convergence of local/global and digital/analogue contents.
Introduction: International Information Issues and ASIS&T
Article introducing a special section of the Bulletin of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) featuring interviews, discussions of ASIS&T chapters and SIGs roles, networking activities, and past and current organizational initiatives.
Balancing Scholarly Activities, Primary Assignments and Service to the Community
Presentation for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries as part of the career development program. This presentation discusses getting started on a research project and balancing scholarly activities, primary assignments, and service to the community.
Cybersecurity Challenges in the Era of Open Access and BIG Data: Issues and Considerations
Article from a panel held at the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) 2019 pre-conference held on October 19, 2019 in Melbourne, Australia. The panelists discussed cybersecurity challenges and provided an assessment of the cybersecurity issues related to open access and big data.
The Impact of Open Access in Scholarly Communications: Stakeholders Perspectives
Panel presentation for the 2013 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference. In this presentation, the panelists discuss the impact of open access on scholarly communications with perspectives from five different stakeholders.
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.
Exploring the Texas Revolution Online through The Portal to Texas History
This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution.
OK Fine, We'll Lecture: Protest and Social Commentary in the Lyrics of the Grateful Dead
Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2014 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. The notes and presentation discuss protest and social commentary in the lyrics of the Grateful Dead.
OK Fine, We'll Lecture: Protest and Social Commentary in the Lyrics of the Grateful Dead [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2014 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses protest and social commentary in the lyrics of the Grateful Dead.
Planning and Implementing a Just-in-Time Collection Development Model in an Academic Library
This presentation discusses about the University of North Texas Libraries' experience in adopting a just-in-time collection development system.
Identifying Gaps in Tools and Interfaces for Assessing Metadata Quality
White paper discussing qualitative research conducted by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries regarding perceptions of quality by metadata creators and their managers. These perceptions of metadata quality are intended to identify gaps in tools and interfaces used to create metadata.
Automated Creation of Analytic Catalog Records for Born-Digital Journal Articles
Article summarizing the approach to bibliographic metadata development at the University of Michigan Library for journal articles published and archived in HathiTrust.
Innovation and Sustainability in Digital Publishing
This presentation accompanies introductory remarks given as a panelist in the session "Publishing and Preserving OA Content" during the 2014 Open Access Symposium, "The Business and Economics of Open Access."
A Publishing Analytics Data Alliance
We invite publishers, libraries, research centers, societies, funders, aggregators, and other scholarly communication stakeholders to join Project Meerkat 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.
Moving Toward a Praxis of Zen Librarianship: Expanding Librarianship with Mindfulness
Bibliography of resources related to Zen Librarianship. It is a supplementary resource to a poster presented at the Texas Library Association Conference held April 19-22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.
Moving Toward a Praxis of Zen Librarianship: Expanding Librarianship with Mindfulness
Poster on creating a Praxis of Zen Librarianship which frames reference and research assistance practices in academic libraries with theory and contemplative methodologies. It was presented at the Texas Library Association Conference held April 19-22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.
Zen Librarianship-Moving Toward a Praxis of Zen Librarianship: Expanding Librarianship with Mindfulness
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.
After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5
Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides background on the Denton Declaration, an open data manifesto created in 2012, before introducing panelists for a discussion on the future of open data and open access.
More Than Just a Degree: Preparing Graduate Library Students For Their Future
This poster outlines the recent restructure of the Graduate Library Assistant Program at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Don't judge a book by its Cover: The Human Library
This poster introduces the lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the Human Library. The "books" at this event are people who have volunteered to challenge prejudice through respectful conversation with members of the UNT campus and the greater Denton community who borrow them for fifteen to thirty minute conversation.
The Portal to Texas History User Guide Video: Final Report
This report documents The Portal to Texas History User Guide Video project funded through the 2017 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes The Portal to Texas History User Guide Video project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Mapping the Inner Monstress
This presentation was delivered as part of a literary conference on "Monstrosity and the Topography of Fear" sponsored by the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. It argues that the Alex Garland film Annihilation (2018) and the Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda comic series Monstress (2015) both enact post-human dramas of colonization by the Other, figured as both alien and natural forces, but leave room for the possibility of "hybrid bodies" that allow for integration of the human and the non-human, and a mutual agency that might be productive of new ways of existing and acting in harmony.
Intersections of Scholarly Communication & Information Literacy Workshop: Final Report
This report documents the Intersections of Scholarly Communication & Information Literacy Workshop project funded through the 2017 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes Intersections of Scholarly Communication & Information Literacy Workshop project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Recommended Library Contributions to Retention of Premedical Students
Poster for the 2015 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition. This poster discusses recommended library contributions to the retention of premedical students.
Recommended Library Contributions to STEM Retention Based on an LIS Interpretation of the Landmark Study, Talking about Leaving: Why Students Leave the Sciences
Poster presentation for the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference, Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Science and Technology Section Program Poster Session. This poster discusses recommended library contributions to Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) retention based on a Library and Information Science (LIS) interpretation of a landmark study.
Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field
Video of the panel session "Preservation of and Access to Government Information and Data: Accounts from the Field" for the 2017 Open Access Symposium with presentations on the End of Term Archive, the US Government Publishing Office, the Data Refuge initiative, and the Preservation of Electronic Government Information group.
What Makes a Good Web Archive?
Presentation for the 2014 Best Practices Exchange Annual Conference. This presentation discusses what makes a good web archive.
Current Quality Assurance Practices in Web Archiving
This paper presents the results of a survey of quality assurance (QA) practices within the field of web archiving. To understand current QA practices, the authors surveyed 54 institutions engaged in web archiving, which included national libraries, colleges and universities, and museums and art libraries.
Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game
This handout accompanies the poster "Enhancing the Discovery of Unique Collections" and contains an example of genre authority records, a partial bibliographic record, and a list of authorized genre headings.
Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game
The handout consists of an example of a catalog record for a tabletop game (including genre terms), an authority record for a genre term, a reference to a list of genre terms for tabletop games, and a bibliography of works on genre terms.
Enhancing the Discovery of Unique Collections
This poster includes best practices for using genre headings to enhance discovery of tabletop games.
OA Resource Rubric
This rubric represents a simple and effective way to determine if an Open Access resources is of appropriate quality for inclusion in a library catalog.
Transforming an Academic Library to a Community Partner
Presentation about ways that have been utilized to promote access to resources found at UNT Libraries. The presentation also includes a brief history of UNT Libraries' collections and ways to engage with the community. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference.
Gordon Knox Film Collection: Access to Three Family Collections: How'd We Do It
This presentation discusses the digitization project of the Gordon Knox film collection. The University of North Texas (UNT) Media Library began working with the donors and assessing the project plan for digitizing this collection in 2007 and the films were made available in the UNT Digital Library in 2010. This presentation describes the strategies, initial challenges, processes, and lessons learned from working on this project.
Chicken-Scratch Decoded: Deciphering Professor Signatures for Improved Discoverability of ETDs
This poster describes the process for deciphering professor signatures for improved discoverability of ETDs.
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