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Cleaning up Messy Data with Open Refine
This Tech Talk presentation discusses the open source software OpenRefine and strategies for cleaning up messy data.
Shared Metadata for Regional Landmarks: Building Names
Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Special Collections Affinity Group meeting. This presentation discusses dealing with building names in digital collections.
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Portal to Texas History: Baseline Survey Results, June 2009
This report discusses the questionnaire for the IOGENE Project. From September 26, 2008 through June 26, 2009, an online survey questionnaire captured both demographic data from Portal visitors as well as their opinions regarding the utility of the Portal and their satisfaction with it. The objective of this data collection effort was twofold: to characterize Portal users and to establish baseline measurements for user satisfaction. The survey will be repeated following each of two planned releases of the redesigned Portal, one in the summer of 2009 and the second in the fall of 2009. Comparison of future survey results to the baseline results reported in this paper will be one gauge of the success of the IOGENE project.
Unique Library Services for Graduate Students: Support Over the Graduate Lifecycle
This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries' Library Research Support Services department and its work to support the graduate student life cycle.
Teaching the Catalog as a Reference Tool
Article in a column for "The Reference Librarian," Material-Mind-Method: On the Teaching of Reference. This article discusses teaching the catalog as a reference tool.
OER: Open Educational Resources
Presentation for the Tarrant County College Northwest Campus discussing copyright, open educational resources, and creative commons licensing.
The Variable Fee Structure for Eagle Editions: The Scholarly Publishing Services of the University of North Texas Libraries
Poster presented at the 2015 Library Publishing Forum. This poster provides an overview of a recently launched scholarly publishing service at the University of North Texas.
"And Now It's Time for Jazz": Willis Conover and the Voice of America
Presentation for the 2010 International Association of Music Libraries (IAML) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses jazz producer and broadcaster Willis Conover and the Voice of America.
Advances in academic video game collections
This article discusses how the UNT Media Library developed a video game collection to support student retention, student recreation, and classroom instruction. The article also will explain how the Library successfully met challenges involved in collection development, related technology, space needs, and the challenges it sees ahead.
Evaluating Collections on a Regular Basis
Presentation for the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Collection Evaluation and Assessment Interest Group meeting at the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses a service at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to evaluate collections on a regular basis.
Cataloging that Works: How to Make E-books Findable
Presentation for the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference as part of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group sponsored program. This presentation discusses a study on the discoverability of ebooks in library catalogs.
Video on Demand: Streaming Media in Distance Education
This poster discusses streaming media in distance education.
CoRSAL Collection @ UNT Digital Library
Presentation given at the third Computational Resource for South Asian Languages symposium in 2019 at the University of North Texas, in Denton, Texas. This presentation describes the activities of the UNT Libraries to provide infrastructure and support for language documentation archiving and preservation via the CoRSAL Collection.
Rescuing Texas History: Institutional Repository Development at the University of North Texas
Presentation for the 2015 Digital Initiatives Symposium discussing the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Digital Libraries Division's institutional repositories including The Portal to Texas History, The UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Collection Assessment Through DEI Lenses: Venturing into (nearly) uncharted waters
Presentation for a panel discussing UNT Libraries' journey to address systemic and systematic vestiges of oppression of socially and politically minoritized populations. For this purpose, the Collection Assessment Department is planning on evaluating the UNT Libraries’ collections, identifying sources of diverse materials, and connecting with our communities. They will conduct focus groups and pilot a method on one aspect of their collections. For this panel discussion, self-selected members of an advisory board for this project will discuss their individual motivations for and concerns about the project. It was presented at the 2022 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference which was held virtually on July 29, 2022.
The Complete Beginners’ Guide to Getting Involved in Professional Associations
Presentation to help individuals looking to participate in professional associations related to libraries. It was presented at the 2022 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference which was held virtually on July 29, 2022.
CSLA Gets Social with Facebook and Twitter
Presentation for the 2013 Church and Synagogue Library Association (CSLA) Annual Conference. Timely CSLA information is available through social media and provides members another avenue of communication. This presentation discusses how easy it is for members to learn to use Twitter and Facebook for keeping up to date on library issues and promoting libraries.
Identifying tween fashion consumers’ profile concerning fashion innovativeness, opinion leadership, internet use for apparel shopping, interest in online co-design involvement, and brand commitment
Article describes study identifying tween fashion consumers’ profiles in relation to fashion change agent (FCA) characteristics, such as fashion innovativeness and opinion leadership, and examines how the tweens’ FCA characteristics influence their Internet innovativeness, interest in online co-design involvement, and brand commitment.
Preserving History By Building Access: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program
Presentation on how to build digital newspaper collections via the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on The Portal to Texas History. It highlights grant opportunities that are available to support libraries in building access to their newspapers and demonstrates how to use the digital newspaper collections. It was presented at the Texas Library Association District 9 Fall 2020 meeting held virtually on October 29, 2020.
Pancho Villa and the Battle of Columbus: Frontiers in Digital Newspapers
This poster discusses frontiers in digital newspapers. Since early 2011, the University of New Mexico and the University of North Texas have been engaged in a historical newspaper digitization project. The endeavor is part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP): a long-term project coordinated by the Library of Congress with the goal of digitizing 100,000 pages of historical newspapers from each of the 50 states and publishing them to the Web at Chronicling America.
Music in the Church Library
Presentation for the 2006 North Texas Chapter of the Church and Synagogue Library Association meeting. This presentation discusses music in the church library.
Supervising Metadata Creation Remotely
Presentation discussing leading metadata creation remotely. This presentation was given as part of the Texas Digital Library Leadership Academy webinar series in 2021.
Responding to User Feedback about Digital Newspaper Collections
Presentation sharing how the University of North Texas Digital Libraries manages user feedback and requests for The Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program Awardee Meeting held on September 29, 2022.
Making Our Library Spaces More Accessible: Accessible Furniture for Sycamore Library: Final Report
This report details the feedback from library users and staff, collected via a survey of students with disabilities and a separate survey of library employees, highlighted a need for more accessible furniture in library spaces. The project members purchased various selections of library furniture during the grant period, and staff observed and recorded how users engaged with the new furniture. The project outcome details the recorded observations of users interacting with furniture from the team members.
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