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- Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program
- This article describes how measures of need, participation, satisfaction, and impact are employed to assess many aspects of a professional development program in a large academic library.
- By Popular Demand: Modifying Library Policies to Improve User Experience
- Presentation given at the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation explains the UNT Libraries' policies and modifications that have been made to improve services to users. It emphasizes the importance of asking for input from stakeholders and also argues that updating policies accordingly can show to users that their feedback and comments are taken seriously.
- Teaming up with Your Graduate School for Academic and Career Success
- As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate student community are essential. This chapter describes how the Library Research Support Services Department (LRSS) of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has collaborated with The Toulouse Graduate School (TGS) to support graduate students through the process of achieving the following three milestones: (1) writing the dissertation or thesis proposal, (2) completing the writing of the dissertation or thesis, and (3) developing an elevator speech for potential employers.
- A Voice of Their Own—Letting Library Collections Tell Their Story: The UNT Libraries Collection Map
- This chapter describes the development and use of a unique collection assessment tool, the Collection Map, to track the needs of academic disciplines and their fulfillment.
- End of Term 2016 Presidential Web Archive
- This article presents an overview of the End of Term 2016 Presidential Web Archive conducted at the end of the second Obama presidential term. It presents the workflow for this collaborative project as well as lessons learned.
- Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project
- This article describes the Preservation of Electronic Government Information Project, a two-year initiative aimed at addressing national concerns around the collection and preservation of born-digital government information by cultural memory organizations for long-term public use.
- Contract and License Review Checklist
- Checklist used to review contracts and licenses against state, library, and legal review policies.
- Electronic Resources Evaluation Rubric
- Rubric used to evaluate electronic resources for acquisition.
- University of North Texas Manifesto: Expectations for Vendors of Library Collections
- Manifesto describing expectations for library collection vendors.
- Utilizing Transgender Patient Health Care Experiences To Address Future Physicians' Gaps In Knowledge
- This poster describes a project to create a free, open-access, web-based curriculum designed to educate medical students and residents on how to give compassionate care to disadvantaged populations who are in great need of consistent, stigma-free, and socially informed health care.
- Design Thinking for Libraries: Strategies, Tools and a Case Study
- Presentation for the 2018 Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference. This presentation focuses on elements from the designer's toolkit to solve problems in libraries, with examples of how a user-centered approach can transform library services, products, and spaces.
- 3DHotbed Project 2017-2018 Update
- Presentation for the 2018 Day of Digital Humanities at the University of North Texas Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of the 3D History of the Book Education (3D Hotbed) project and an update on future developments.
- Sustaining your Organization’s Future: Mentoring and Succession Planning in Libraries
- Webinar for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. This presentation discusses results of a recent survey of librarians on the prevalence of succession and mentoring plans in academic, public, school, and special libraries, and includes conclusions, best practices, and takeaways for increased mentoring and succession planning
- Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette
- Presentation for the 2018 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference. This presentation discusses how you can advocate for your library while maintaining vendor relationships.
- 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.
- Haints & Haunts: Spiritual Correspondence in Harrow County
- This presentation was delivered as part of a panel on "Comics and the Epistolary Tradition" at the 2018. Popular Culture Association National Conference. The panel was sponsored by the Comics & Comic Art section of the PCA. It discusses the theme of "correspondence" in the comic series Harrow County, considering the term as part of its narrative and supplementary content, including letters from readers. It argue that the comic creates a shared community of artists, readers, and characters to confront issues of trauma, memory, and childhood.
- Pedagogy for Liaisons: Resources for the Subject Librarians and Liaisons at the University of North Texas Libraries
- Annotated bibliography containing scholarship exploring the connections between literacy, pedagogy, philosophy, and theory in librarianship.
- University of North Texas Libraries Serials Transparency List
- This document represents contains information regarding subscriptions purchased by UNT Libraries, along with pricing information for the 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2015-16 fiscal years.
- Click to Count
- Poster detailing the Click to Count program at University of North Texas Libraries in which permalinks are provided to gain more accurate usage data from faculty.
- The impact of library instruction on undergraduate student success: A four-year study
- Presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This presentation reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
- [Notes] The Impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study
- Notes for a presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This text contains speaking notes for a presentation that reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
- Our Users, Our Selves: Evaluating user experience on The Portal to Texas History
- Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the development and results of a usability study to understand how users navigate The Portal to Texas History.
- Tableau: Interactive Data Visualizations For Your Library
- Presentation delivered at the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This panel presentation provides experiences with Tableau and other visualizations for library assessment purposes.
- pedagogy4liaisons
- This website is a digital annotated bibliography that contains resources for the subject librarians and liaisons at the UNT Libraries. This repository is a digital copy of an annotated bibliography produced for the UNT Libraries’ Subject Librarian Workgroup. This digital platform allows for collaboration between the UNT liaisons to produce a list of resources for self-directed learning in pedagogy and theory in librarianship that may inform librarianship practices at the UNT Libraries.
- Serenity Now! Overcoming the Fear of Negative Evaluation
- Presentation for the 2018 Texas Women in Higher Education Annual Conference. This presentation discusses fear of negative evaluation (FNE), including perceptions of FNE and ways to overcome it.
- Video Message Congratulating LEAP-II Graduating Students
- On May 4, 2018, a recognition ceremony was held for the LEAP (Library Education for the U.S. Affiliated Pacific) II scholars, who earned their Master's in Library Science degree from UNT. Video messages were sent to the students by their UNT professors who taught them at the Institutes in Hawaii. This short video recording is from Dr. Daniel Alemneh, congratulating the LAEP-II students who now join the graduates from the LEAP I cohort as the only indigenous librarians in the U.S. Affiliated Pacific Islands.
- Making Book History: Engaging Maker Culture and 3D Technologies to Extend Bibliographical Pedagogy
- This article describes how the 3Dhotbed project (an acronym for “3D Printed History of the Book Education”) harnesses maker culture to advance book history instruction by providing open-access 3D data through a digital library platform.
- Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs: Project Meerkat
- Slides presented during the panel “Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs” at the Library Publishing Forum 2018. This presentation describes the impetus behind Project Meerkat, a publishing analytics data alliance.
- Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection
- This paper applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
- Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection
- Presentation for the 2018 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
- Aquiline Books: Mock operating budget for fiscal year 2019
- Handout presented for the 2018 Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. This text contains a mock operating budget for Aquiline Books, a University of North Texas Libraries publishing service.
- A business model for author-pays publishing
- Presentation for the 2018 Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. This presentation describes the business model for Aquiline Books, a University of North Texas Libraries publishing service.
- 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.
- Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials
- Handout for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference for the Games & Gaming Round Table. This document contains genre terms for cataloging makerspace materials within the University of North Texas Libraries.
- Teamwork, Communication, and Critical Thinking: Librarian/University Collaboration for Student E-Portfolios
- Poster presented at the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference. This poster describes the collaborations involved in promoting student e-portfolios.
- Partners and Proposal Readiness: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals
- Presentation for the 2018 STEM Librarians South conference. This presentation. This presentation shares experiences from the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ workshops to prepare STEM graduate students to write their dissertation or thesis proposals.
- 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.
- There’s an App for That! Using Technology to Support Executive Functioning & Coping Skills
- Presentation discussing some of the challenges college students with autism face, possible academic supports, and how apps can play a role in supporting learners with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). It was presented at the UNT Kristin Farmer Autism Center's 10th annual Adventures in Autism Intervention and Research Conference held on July 28, 2018 in Denton, Texas.
- Collaborative/Shared Management in Libraries
- This presentation provides an overview of collaborative management at the UNT Digital Libraries Division. It includes a discussion of available tools and mechanisms that facilitate effective communications among the various units and members and how role definition and designation of responsibilities help to manage complex digital projects.
- The impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study
- Poster presented at the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Annual Conference. This poster describes a study to determine if library instruction has a positive impact on undergraduate student success.
- It's in the Bag: Creating Sustainability in the Faculty Book Delivery Service
- Presentation for the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Annual Conference. This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries Access Services Department's development of a sustainable faculty delivery service.
- The OA2020 Expression of Interest
- Presentation for the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Annual Conference. OA2020 is an international initiative that supports institutions committed to a large-scale shift toward open access to the scholarly journal literature. Institutions that sign the Expression of Interest commit to making a good-faith effort to devise and implement practical strategies and actions for transitioning their funding for subscribing to journals to supporting open access. This lightning talk provides and overview of the OA2020 initiative and related resources to help guide decision-making on how to redirect library funding.
- Transforming Liaison Services at the UNT Libraries
- Presentation for the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative annual conference. This presentation reviews the process used to revamp the the University of North Texas Libraries philosophy for supporting subject librarians as they provide library services to the university community.
- Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette
- Presentation delivered at the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Annual Conference. This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' multi-year effort to improve vendor relations by proactively preventing problems and by responding effectively to new situations as they arise.
- The Engaged Subject Librarian
- Presentation for the UNT Libraries Subject Librarian Workgroup August 2018 Meeting. This presentation recaps the presentation "Transforming Liaison Services at the UNT Libraries: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Library Liaisonship" from the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative annual conference for an internal audience.
- Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries
- Paper presented at the 2018 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications Initiative (DCMI). This paper describes work underway at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to design and implement interfaces and tools for analyzing metadata quality in their local metadata editing environment.
- What's the Real Story? SLI Session Addresses Challenge of Fake News
- This article discusses a session on "Fake News and the Fate of Our Democracy" at the 2018 Texas Association of School Boards Summer Leadership Institute, and provides information on resources and strategies for assessing the legitimacy of news information.
- History 9-1-1: How University of North Texas Libraries Save Newspaper Runs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program
- Presentation for the 2018 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions International News Media Conference. This presentation describes how the Texas Digital Newspaper Program partners with other libraries and museum to preserve materials, and how this can act as a safeguard after natural disasters in the area.
- The Portal to Texas History: Walking in the Footprints of History
- Presentation for the Cedar Hill Genealogy Society. This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History can facilitate genealogical research.
- Panel Proposal: Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information
- Panel proposal for iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. This proposal outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information, including a brief discussion of the need for digital preservation efforts and an overview of the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project.