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- Getting started on Twitter: Communities and Conversations...
- This Tech Talk presentation discusses getting started and strategies for using the social media tool Twitter.
- ImageMagick Workshop Handout
- This handout accompanies a workshop presentation for the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). The workshop introduces command-line image manipulation using the open source software ImageMagick.
- Command-Line Image Manipulation with ImageMagick
- Presentation slides from a workshop at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). These workshop slides introduce command-line image manipulation to its participants using the open source software ImageMagick.
- The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
- The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey has focused since its inception on capturing an accurate picture of faculty members' practices, attitudes, and needs. In the fifth triennial cycle, fielded in fall 2012, the survey focused on research and teaching practices broadly, as well as the dissemination, collecting, discovery, and access of research and teaching materials. Findings from this cycle of the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey will provide colleges and universities, libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education. The development of the 2012 questionnaire was guided by an advisory committee of librarians, publishers, policy makers, and a scholarly society executive. The overall project was supported by some 20 colleges and universities, learned societies, and publishers / vendors.
- URL Nominating Tool
- This presentation gives an overview of the URL Nominating TOOL project and defines some of the associated key concepts. It explores the entity attribute value data model, URL's and SURTs, and batch imports.
- 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.
- Digital Curation: Curation Micro-services approach to Building Repositories
- This presentation discusses digital curation, preservation and stewardship. The author provides information on Curation Micro-Services.
- From a Shed in Ojai to a Library in Denton: Reassembling and Preserving the Maynard Ferguson Collection at UNT [Presentation Notes]
- Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2010 Texas Music Library Association (TMLA) Annual Meeting. These notes and the presentation discuss reassembling and preserving the Maynard Ferguson collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
- From a Shed in Ojai to a Library in Denton: Reassembling and Preserving the Maynard Ferguson Collection at UNT [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2010 Texas Music Library Association (TMLA) Annual Meeting. This presentation discusses reassembling and preserving the Maynard Ferguson collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
- Comparison of Full-text Versus Metadata Searching in an Institutional Repository: Case Study of the UNT Scholarly Works
- This paper discusses a case study comparing full-text versus metadata searching in the University of North Texas (UNT) Scholarly Works institutional repository.
- Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library Survey [Dataset]
- This dataset shows the results from a succession planning and mentoring survey conducted by UNT Libraries.
- Notre Dame Cathedral Fire Dataset
- This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for Tweets related to the fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, France. This dataset was created using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 8,046,185 Tweets and 163,055 media files make up the combined dataset.
- Understanding Connections: Examining Digital Library and Institutional Repository Use Overlap
- This paper examined how users navigated between other collections within the UNT IR, as well as within the UNT DL. Through this examination, we observed patterns between how users navigated between objects, understood which collections may have related to one another, examined why some unique items were used more than others, and viewed the average number of items used within a session
- Web 2.0 and 3.0: Technology and Legal Pitfalls
- Presentation on Web 2.0 and 3.0 and technology and legal pitfalls.
- "Yes All Women" Twitter Dataset
- This dataset contains Twitter JSON data for several Twitter search queries that were collected around the #YesAllWomen Twitter "conversation" between May 25, 2014 and June 8, 2014 using the twarc (https://github.com/edsu/twarc) package that makes use of Twitter's search API. A total of 2,805,763 Tweets and 34,532 images make up the combined dataset.
- Owning Your Labor Is A Skill
- This presentation from the Modern Language Association 2017 panel "Digital Humanities in Secondary Education" offers a look at the ethical implications of bringing digital humanities praxis to secondary education.
- X Marks the Spot: Creating and Managing a Single Service Point to Improve Customer Service and Maximize Resources
- This article describes how merging service points in an academic library is an opportunity to improve customer service and utilize staffing resources more efficiently.
- Open Educational Resources in Action: 2022 UNT Open Access Symposium
- Video recording of the 2022 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium held on March 8, 2022.
- Multi-Directional Leadership
- Presentation exploring leadership as a multi-directional relationship. It was presented at the 2023 Conference on Academic Library Management held June 5-9, 2023.
- Creating a Successful Single Service Point for Circulation and Reference in an Academic Library
- Presentation for the 2013 Access Services Annual Conference. This presentation discusses creating a successful single service point for circulation and reference in an academic library.
- Finding New Cell Wall Regulatory Genes in Populus trichocarpa Using Multiple Lines of Evidence
- Article describes study which searched for genes with putatively unknown roles in regulating cell wall biosynthesis using an extended network-based Lines of Evidence (LOE) pipeline to combine multiple omics data sets in P. trichocarpa, including gene coexpression, gene comethylation, population level pairwise SNP correlations, and two distinct SNP-metabolite Genome Wide Association Study (GWAS) layers.
- Silver Haystacks and Golden Needles: The Folksonomies that Brought Order to Grateful Dead Concert Recordings
- Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2014 Grateful Dead Conference.The notes and presentation discuss folksonomies that brought order to Grateful Dead concert recordings.
- Silver Haystacks and Golden Needles: The Folksonomies that Brought Order to Grateful Dead Concert Recordings [Presentation]
- Presentation for the 2014 Grateful Dead Conference. This presentation discusses the folksonomies that brought order to Grateful Dead concert recordings.
- Empowering Student Workers Using Flipped and Agile Project Management
- Presentation introduces the concepts of Flipped Instruction and Agile Project Management and discusses how those methodologies may be applied to student roles in library and digital humanities projects. It was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Together Wherever virtual event held on June 8-12, 2020.
- Preparing STEM Graduate Students for the Dissertation or Thesis Proposal
- Poster presented at the 2019 American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting. This poster describes outcomes from a library workshop designed to lower barriers students face when beginning a dissertation or thesis proposal.
- Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
- Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2019 Membership Meeting. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for the sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.
- Importance of GIS Repositories
- This presentation highlights the importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data repositories, including issues and challenges.
- Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data
- Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2019 Membership Meeting. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for the sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.
- Gas Well Drilling
- This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling. This series features Dr. Adam Briggle, assistant professor of philosophy and religion studies, Dr. Matthew Fry, assistant professor of geography, Dr. Chetan Tiwari, assistant professor of geography and Nathanial Smith, a senior geography major.
- New Source of Natural Fertilizer Discovered in Oceans
- New findings suggest that the deep ocean is teeming with organisms that produce essential natural fertilizers. A National Science Foundation (NSF)-funded research team led by Jonathan Zehr, a marine scientist at the University of California, Santa Cruz, has discovered a previously unknown type of photosynthetic bacteria that fixes nitrogen, converting nitrogen from the atmosphere into a form other organisms can use.
- Getting to know you... LEAP
- This presentation discusses LEAP and getting to know students, mentors, and the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Information faculty.
- Environmental Impact Assessment Act
- This law was passed by the government of the Republic of China (Taiwan) to protect the natural environment from some of the negative effects of economic growth.
- Floods and Drought, USGCRP Seminar, 8 May 1995.
- In this USGCRP seminar, issues about the impact of drought and floods in the news and feel it in the cost of goods and services would be discussed. Each year seems to bring with it droughts or floods that cause billions of dollars in economic losses and untold societal disruption to major parts of our nation. (Drought in the Midwest in 1988 and in the Southeast in 1989. Floods in the Mississippi River Basin in 1992 and in California in 1994). Around the world the situation is the same, even worse in some instances. What causes these extreme events and conditions? Can we predict the occurrence of such events as a means of being prepared, and reducing the impacts of extreme climate events? Can we be better prepared? What success to date has there been in predicting such events? What's the prognosis?
- Evaluating the University of North Texas' Digital Collections and Institutional Repository: An Exploratory Assessment of Stakeholder Perceptions and Use
- This article discusses an exploratory assessment evaluating the University of North Texas' digital collections and institutional repository.
- Content Curation and Online Portfolios: Tools and Tips
- Presentation for the 2015 Texas Library Association Annual Assembly Continuing Education Program. This presentation discusses tools and tips for content curation and online portfolios.
- Taking Stock: Sharing Responsibility for Print Preservation
- In "Taking Stock: Sharing Responsibility for Print Preservation," Roger Schonfeld surveys the progress made in the past decade, and warns against the conflation of collaborative print management and improved access to collections with preservation. This issue brief was presented at Preserving America's Print Resources II: A North American Summit in Berkeley, California, on June 25, 2015. The full conference program is available at http://www.crl.edu/events/preserving-americas-print-resources-ii-north-american-summit.
- Creating a Sustainable Professional Development Program
- Article describing a professional development program for academic librarians at a large research university that has been operating continuously for eight years. Multiple components of the program and their related practices and procedures contribute to its longevity and continuing relevance for librarians.
- Cultivating Cooperation: Creating the Vendor Reciprocity Scale
- Presentation on the development of a Vendor Reciprocity Scale (VRS) by the University of North Texas Libraries as a way to download institutional knowledge of patterns of vendor behavior, and the presentation encouraged thoughtful and productive discussion on our collective knowledge surrounding best practices in business partnerships and negotiations as a way to help refine the VRS.