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The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s: This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2007: Introduction to the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas: Introduction to the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology as featured in the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Real World Metadata Management with the University of North Texas Libraries' Metadata Analysis Tool: This presentation gives a brief introduction to the University of North Texas Libraries' digital initiatives, their collections and projects, what metadata management is, and metadata analysis tools.
[Review] The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries: Adding Value in the Digital World: This article reviews the book "The Human Side of Reference and Information Services in Academic Libraries: Adding Value in the Digital World," edited by Lesley S.J. Farmer.
Undergraduate Student Research in Anthropology: Introduction to the special section for undergraduate research in anthropology in the 2007 edition of The Eagle Feather.
XML to Lucene to SRW: Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report documents procedures of parsing XML records into Lucene index and making those records available via SRW.
Research, Rummage, and Reconnoiter: Online Exploration at The Portal to Texas History: This presentation discusses what The Portal to Texas History is and the benefits that it provides to the community and to educators. It also illustrates how to use The Portal to Texas History, shows examples of the collections, and discusses future goals.
Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 2/3: This report discusses the curators' evaluation of WAS release 2/3, part of the Web-at-Risk project.
Enhancing the Quality of Metadata: Modular Approach to Digital Resource Lifecycle Management: This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital resource management. Templates, validation, controlled vocabularies, analysis tools, graphical reports, and more are explained in this presentation.
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.
Does the Arousal System Contribute to Near-Death and Out-of-Body Experiences? A Summary and Response: Article acknowledging the viability and potential value of the hypothesis underlying articles suggesting a relationship between near-death experiences (NDEs) and the body's arousal system, but also identifying substantial weaknesses in both the presented lines of evidence and the studies.
Installation and Testing of Selected Digital Asset Management Systems (work area E): Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report contains installation procedures for the Digital Asset Management Systems (DAMS) identified as the most suitable candidates for the deployment by the Texas Heritage Digitization Initiative (THDI) partners.
JSTOR: Preservation, Storage, Access: This presentation discusses JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive. The author discusses the JSTOR mission of preservation, storage, and access.
Archiving Web-published Materials: Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2007 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference on the Web-at-Risk project and the Web Archiving Service (WAS).
Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development: Born-Digital and Digitized Materials [Presentation]: This presentation discusses the phases of web collection development, challenges with web archives, and the need and benefit for preserving web materials.
At The Portal to Texas History: This video presents The Portal to Texas History collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. It shows images from the collections including photographs, maps, newspapers, text documents, and objects.
Metadata: Batch Editing of MARC Records (work area D): Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This reports workflows developed for the conversion of two sets of metadata records and serves the following objectives: research different avenues for the batch import and export of MARC records from popular integrated library systems, identify tools/software which aids in batch editing of MARC records, and document workflow for batch editing MARC records.
Building Search Systems for Digital Library Collections: This presentation describes the infrastructure and collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital initiatives. This discusses issues related to searching and explains possible solutions to best enhance metadata and searching capabilities.
OAI Static Repositories: Report for an Institute of Museum and Library Sciences (IMLS) Grant Partner Uplift Project. This report gives an overview of the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) static repositories' and their restrictions and conformation rules. Also, intermediation with a Static Repository Gateway, workflows and best practices, and interfaces for the creation of metadata for OAI static repositories
Making it Work, Making it Fun: Metadata in Action: This presentation discusses metadata and how to ensure quality. It illustrates how the University of North Texas (UNT) utilizes a metadata analysis tool and a metadata template creator.
WAS Release 4 - Usability Test Results: This report discusses the usability test results for the Web-at-Risk project at the University of North Texas (UNT). Usability testing of the Web Archiving Service (WAS) Release 4 was conducted on May 29, 2007. Eight of the project's curators participated in test sessions, which generally were completed in 45-60 minutes. Two testing teams, each consisting of a facilitator and two observers were involved in testing.
Turning Challenges into Opportunities: How Law Libraries Can Capture and Preserve Government Web Resources: This presentation discusses issues for law libraries and how law libraries can capture and preserve government web resources. It gives a background and new issues encountered when collecting web published resources, research, and collection development planning tools.
More Things in Heaven and Earth: A Response to "Near-Death Experiences with Hallucinatory Features": Article offering alternative arguments and conclusions to those Keith Augustine offered regarding discrepancies between some near-death experiencers' (NDErs') reports of events they perceived during their NDEs and objective information available about those events.
Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks: This Tech Talk presentation explores METS. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. Maintained by the Library of Congress, it provides a standard vocabulary and set of data structures for encoding hierarchical digital object content and metadata. In this presentation the author explains more about these parts of METS, and discusses how METS may be applicable to digital collections in the UNT Libraries.
An Introduction to MODS: The Metadata Object Description Schema: This Tech Talks presentation offers an introduction to MODS. The presenter utilizes real life examples to show how MODS can be used with the Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS).
Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 4: This report discusses the curators' evaluation of WAS Release 4, part of the Web-at-Risk project.
Creating a Culture of Collaboration: Collaborative Models for Digital Libraries in a Heterogeneous Institutional Landscape: This presentation gives a brief overview of the collaborative efforts of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Projects Unit and its partners in digitization projects.
Teaching Information Literacy: A Performance Based Cycle: This presentation discusses teaching information literacy and a project to assess student searching skills. It includes background information on the project, discusses the performance cycle of information literacy, active teaching, learning, and assessing, student navigation skills, and software and strategies.
Circulation Myth Busters!: This presentation discusses circulation in the libraries and what the policies, processes, services, and resources are for the UNT Libraries circulation department.
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.
Assessment Path Final Report: This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report describes the major assessment activities, their contributions to the project, and key findings. The assessment work areas included needs assessment, collection planning, and WAS evaluation.
Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers: Article discussing archiving web-published materials and a needs assessment of librarians, researchers, and content providers.
Connecting Constituents to Government Information: 150 Years of Congressionally Designated Libraries: Article on connecting constituents to government information and 150 years of congressionally designated libraries.
The Fear of Extinction before Enlightenment: This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 20th Annual Juried members Exhibition.
Integrating Folksonomies into Cultural Heritage Digital Collections: The Challenges and Opportunities of Web 2.0: In this presentation, the author defines Folksonomy and the advantages and disadvantages of Folksonomy. He begins with a background on information retrieval and changing technologies, discusses trends in technologies, and explains the use of tags and Folksonomy.
LibQual+ Lite Spring 2008 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries: This report contains information from the Spring 2008 pilot administration of the LibQUAL+® Lite protocol at University of North Texas Libraries. The goal of LibQUAL+® Lite is to measure user satisfaction in the same valid matter as the original LibQUAL+® protocol while using only a subset (8 items) of the orginal 22 core items.
Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management: Book chapter on maintaining quality metadata and effective digital resource lifecycle management.
Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management: This presentation discusses the critical issues of metadata quality in digital libraries and describes the efforts being made by the University of North Texas Libraries to ensure metadata quality at various levels of digital resources' life cycle.
Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms: Abstract document accompanying a poster presentation for the 2008 ALISE Annual Conference (Work in Progress session. The topic is maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections using a complex set of actions and some of the tools and quality assurance mechanisms used at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Metadata Enhancements and Quality Assurance Mechanisms [Poster]: This poster presentation was presented at the 2008 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) conference (Work in Progress session). The poster discusses that maintaining usable and sustainable digital collections requires a complex set of actions, and demonstrates some of the tools and quality assurance mechanisms used at the UNT Libraries.
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2008: Introduction to the 2008 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas: Introduction to the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology, as published in the 2008 edition of The Eagle Feather.
[Review] Letting Go Of The Words: Writing Web Content That Works: This article reviews the book "Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works," by Janice (Ginny) Redish.
Simple Ways to Add Active Learning to Your Library Instruction: This paper discusses library instruction. Assessments are recommended to determine the effectiveness of student learning. This paper also discusses a project by the UNT Libraries' in which they developed software to assess library instruction, called Library Instruction Software for Assessment (LISA) and the outcome of that study.
Sleep in College Students: Paper discusses two studies focusing on sleep in college students - the first examining sleep and insomnia in general, the second examining the effectiveness of cognitive-behavioral therapy in treating insomnia.
University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2008: This document provides summaries of all grants given to the University of North Texas Libraries from 2000 to 2008. The projects that were funded by the grants are described.
Online College of Music Recordings at the University of North Texas: Poster presented at the 2008 Music Library Association Annual Conference. This poster discusses online College of Music recordings at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Update on Digitization at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries: This presentation gives an update on the digital collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in their Digital Collection and The Portal to Texas History in 2008.
"The Silicon Dream": Breaking Glass on the Small Screen: Book chapter discussing the Brian Gibson film "Breaking Glass" and the author's experiences viewing the film and thoughts about the impressions it made.

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