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Contextual Metadata in Digital Aggregations: Application of Collection-Level Subject Metadata and its Role in User Interactions and Information Retrieval

Description: Article discussing a study of contextual metadata in digital aggregations. Results of this study prove importance of provision of collection-level metadata in general and subject metadata in particular to enhance user experiences and information retrieval in digital libraries.
Date: December 19, 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata in Large-Scale Digital Libraries: A Comparative Content Analysis [Presentation]

Description: This presentation includes audio/video media and discusses metadata. This presentation reports results of the study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital cultural heritage aggregations in the United States and Europe.
Date: September 23, 2011
Duration: 20 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries

Description: This article reports results of a study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text and controlled vocabulary collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries in the European Union and the USA.
Date: December 31, 2014
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
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The Engaged Subject Librarian

Description: 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.
Date: August 30, 2018
Creator: Condrey, Coby & Leuzinger, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries

A New Approach to Academic Library Liaisons

Description: This presentation reviews  the University of North Texas approach to revamp the philosophy for, and means of supporting, subject librarians as they provide library services to the university community. Crafting a new philosophy of liaison librarianship can be both  an exciting and a daunting process. New models of service have emerged that offer exciting opportunities to improve librarian skill sets, clarify expectations  of subject librarians, standardize assessment of liaisons, and identify a… more
Date: April 17, 2019
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Condrey, Coby
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries

Implementing Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) at the University of North Texas

Description: Presentation on the University of North Texas Libraries’ implementation of Faceted Application of Subject Terminology (FAST) headings in their catalog. It was presented at the American Library Association's (ALA) Core Interest Group Week event which was held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.
Date: July 27, 2021
Creator: Baron, Adam & Thomale, Jason
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries

Transforming Liaison Services at the UNT Libraries

Description: 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.
Date: August 10, 2018
Creator: Condrey, Coby & Leuzinger, Julie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Knowledge Representation and Subject Access in Electronic Theses and Dissertations: Analysis of Creators’ and Users’ Assumptions and Expectations

Description: This paper analyzes the relationship between subject terms -- both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords -- used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) and the search terms entered by users to discover and access the ETDs. Identification of search terms and comparison of search results with subject terms used in describing ETDs provides a basis for assessing the relative usefulness of controlled-vocabulary subject term… more
Date: 2015-11-04/2015-11-06
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Zavalina, Oksana; Tarver, Hannah; Zavalin, Vyacheslav; Phillips, Mark Edward & Kizhakkethil, Priya
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Partner: UNT Libraries
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Editing of Library Metadata Records and its Effect on Subject Access: An Empirical Investigation

Description: This paper was presented at the 2016 IFLA World Library and Information Congress Satellite Meeting on Subject Access: Unlimited Opportunities. This paper reports on the change in a sample of MARC 21 library metadata records over a period of two years.
Date: November 14, 2017
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Shakeri, Shadi & Kizhakkethil, Priya
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Partner: UNT College of Information

Cataloging for Makerspaces

Description: Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference for the Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. This presentation covers descriptive cataloging, subject headings and genre terms for makerspace materials. The presentation refers to two supplemental documents: "Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials" and "LCSH for Makerspace Activities".
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Media Library
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Library of Congress Subject Headings for Makerspace Activities

Description: Handout for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference for the Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. This document contains Library of Congress subject headings for cataloging makerspace materials within the University of North Texas Libraries. This document was referred to within the presentation "Cataloging for Makerspaces" and is intended to be used alongside an additional document, "Genre Terms for Makerspace Activities".
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: UNT Media Library
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The Role of Collection-Level Subject Metadata in Subject Access to Digital Collections in Aggregations

Description: This paper presents a new area of research in library and information sciences - investigation into collection-level subject metadata that describes entire digital collections as integral wholes - and reports results of the multi-method exploratory study combining comparative content analysis of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale aggregations of digital collections in the USA and Europe, transaction log analysis of user interactions with one of these portals, as well as inte… more
Date: 2011
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
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Partner: UNT College of Information
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Using Metadata Record Graphs to understand controlled vocabulary and keyword usage for subject representation in the UNT theses and dissertations collection

Description: This article discusses the use of network analysis through the creation Metadata Record Graphs to analyze the interconnectedness of subject and keywords in the University of North Texas Theses and Dissertations collection. The analysis compares overlap of controlled terms (Library of Congress Subject Headings) and uncontrolled terms (keywords), as well as the effects of basic format normalization (to simulate editing values for consistency) to evaluate how well subjects connect in the collecti… more
Date: December 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
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Partner: UNT Libraries

Automating the Authority Control Process

Description: Presentation for Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference 2019. This presentation argues that Authority control is an important part of cataloging since it helps provide consistent access to names, titles, subjects, and genre/forms. There are a variety of methods for providing authority control, ranging from manual, time-consuming processes to automated processes. However, the automated processes often seem out of reach for small libraries when it comes to using a pr… more
Date: May 13, 2019
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
Item Type: Refine your search to only Presentation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Cataloging for Makerspaces

Description: Although many school libraries include makerspaces, their catalogs do not always provide information about makerspace resources. Cataloging these resources can benefit school library users and staff in several ways. This article argues that how cataloging increases the visibility of the makerspace collection not only by making the items accessible for catalog users, but also facilitating browsing by collocating similar resources.
Date: 2019
Creator: Robson, Diane; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries
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