UNT Libraries - 17 Matching Results
Search Results
- Collection Development and Management Issues
- This presentation discusses collection development and management issues. It describes considerations to keep in mind, suggestions and strategies, and ideas for successful digitization projects.
- Re-Purposing of Freely Available Government Documents
- This presentation discusses the re-purposing of freely available government documents. It specifically describes projects by the University of North Texas Libraries including The Portal to Texas History, collections in the UNT Digital Library, newspaper projects, and the digitization of maps.
- Keeping it Fair: Using Rubrics in Hiring and Evaluations
- Presentation for a webinar offered by the American Library Association (ALA) Library Leadership and Management Association (LLAMA). This presentation discusses using rubrics in hiring and evaluations to keep things fair.
- Web Curation within Institutions: Dealing with Researchers
- Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IICP) General Assembly. This presentation discusses web curation within institutions and dealing with researchers.
- Academic Library Innovations and Developments in Support of Student Learning
- Presentation for the 2015 Emerging Technologies for Online Learning International Symposium. This presentation discusses academic library innovations and developments in support of student learning.
- Social Justice Models for Campus Engagement
- Presentation for the 2017 UNT Equity & Diversity Conference. In this presentation, Melissa Harris-Perry discusses the questions educators face when engaging in social justice.
- Emotional Labor in the Digital Humanities
- Seminar for the 2017 Digital Frontiers Conference. This seminar examines emotional labor as an integral component in the work of digital humanists, and as a means to develop professional relationships and scholarly partnerships that are more productive, equitable, and meaningful.
- Impediments, Partners, and Proposals: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals
- Presentation for the 2018 Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students Conference. This presentation shares the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ experience of creating and refashioning workshops to prepare graduate students to write their dissertation or thesis proposals.
- Curating Open Access Content with Collection Development Practices: Historical Development & Current Practices at the University of North Texas Libraries
- Presentation for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses University of North Texas Libraries' approach to open access content from a collection development viewpoint.
- Tiny Tweaks: Small Interventions to Help Improve Student Worker Performance
- Presentation for Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019. This presentation discusses ways to enhance student assistants productivity and shares UNT's experiences, including simplifying workflows and making small changes in training that can go long ways in terms of improving students overall performances.
- Updates from the 3DHotbed Collection
- This presentation highlights the progress of the 3D History of the Book Education (3Dhotbed) collection. The team has focused on creating workflows, promoting the collection, adding new material, and assessment of the collection by users. It was presented at the 2019 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries held in Austin, Texas.
- Using Metadata Record Graphs to Understand Digital Library Metadata
- Presentation discussing the evaluation of network analysis (with Metadata Record Graphs) for metadata in six digital library collections, to determine the usefulness of network-based metrics compared to other statistical data.
- Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative
- 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 initiative in hopes that other libraries can modify them to serve marginalized populations in their communities.
- Dark Star: Etymology of an Enigma
- Presentation on the etymology of the lyrics in the song "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead. Presented as part of the Session "Grateful Dead 3: The World of the Lyrics of the Grateful Dead" at the 2022 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference.
- EDI in Organizations: A Libraries' Perspective
- Presentation from librarians at the UNT Libraries share some of the EDI initiatives taking place in the UNT Libraries stemming from a multi-level climate survey, how the libraries as a whole is trying to be a better ally, and how we can help other departments with their EDI initiatives. It was presented at the 2022 UNT Equity & Diversity Conference held on March 23, 2022.
- These Tunes Ain't Straight In Line: Grateful Dead Shows and Problems with Music Cataloging Outside of the Western Art Paradigm
- Presentation provides an overview of the structure upon which modern library resource description is based, and we will highlight the difficulties of imposing this description standard on music for which it was not optimized, using examples from the Grateful Dead repertoire. It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 44th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
- Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories
- 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.