The Houston-Stockholm Pipeline: One Attorney's Passion for Duke Ellington's Music, and a Texas Treasury of Swedish Concerts [Presentation]

Presentation on the contents and historical context of the Rhodes Baker Collection at the University of North Texas Music Library. It was presented at the 55th Annual Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) Conference held virtually May 12-15, 2021.
Date: May 14, 2021
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
System: The UNT Digital Library

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.
Date: July 20, 2018
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Comics in Academia

Panel presented at the 2017 Comicpalooza. This panel discusses comics in academia through the lens of library exhibitions and programing, combining comics and textbooks, and the use of comics as a new rhetorical and multimodal method for exploring narrative.
Date: May 12, 2017
Creator: Martin, John Edward; Gehring, Krista & Helms, Jason
System: The UNT Digital Library

The collection assessment is done...now what?

This presentation discusses how the UNT Libraries approaches collection assessment and its follow-up actions. It touches on the nature of collection evaluation in libraries in general and how UNT's assessment strategy employs a subject-oriented perspective in particular. It was presented at the Library Assessment Conference of 2018 in Houston, Texas.
Date: December 6, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Crawford, Laurel & Condrey, Coby
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data Readiness and the Digital Public Library of America

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, resources for preparing data, and the experiences of the Houston Public Library.
Date: April 2018
Creator: Hiott, Judith; Park, Kristi L.; Tarver, Hannah & Duran, Albert
System: The UNT Digital Library

Thinking Differently: Developing a New Energy Economy

Presented by Dr. Dan E. Arvizu at the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) 2007 Spring National Meeting on April 24, 2007 in Houston, Texas.
Date: April 24, 2007
Creator: Arvizu, D. E.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library

This presentation discusses succession planning through mentoring, including an overview of survey results with a special focus on succession planning and mentoring within academic libraries.
Date: April 21, 2016
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Future is in the Preservation Metadata

This presentation discusses the issue of digital preservation and how metadata provides a critical part of the solution to the preservation challenges from detecting preservation threats to promoting preventative measures.
Date: 2003
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring the Texas Revolution Online through The Portal to Texas History

This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution.
Date: April 19, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Site Usability Testing at the Libraries

This presentation from the 2003 Texas Library Association Conference discusses the purpose and procedures for conducting website usability testing.
Date: 2003
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth; Byerly, Gayla & May, Frances A.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Student Use of Interactive Whiteboards in an Academic Library Setting

In January 2011, the University of North Texas Libraries installed two Hitachi StarBoards in the new Collaboration and Learning Commons of the Eagle Commons Library for patrons to use independently. This presentation reports preliminary findings from a web survey on students use of smart technologies and interactive whiteboards at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Elizondo, Yvette & O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hispanic Art in Texas 1737 to 11836: Tejano Homes at a Cultural Crossroads

Slides providing resources related to early Hispanic art in Texas, with images of various objects and brief explanatory descriptions, intended to supplement educational units about art.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Hispanic Art in Texas 1840s to 1960s

Slides providing resources related to Hispanic art in Texas, with images of various objects and brief explanatory descriptions, intended to supplement educational units about art.
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History

Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program

This presentation discusses assessment methods for UNT Libraries' professional development program.
Date: April 22, 2016
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; O'Toole, Erin & Harker, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Meeting the Digital Resource Preservation Challenges: The University of North Texas Libraries Initiative

This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' initiatives to ensure long-term access to various digital resources.
Date: 2002
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference.This presentation focuses on the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Social Cataloging; social catalogers

This presentation discusses social cataloging, how social tagging affects cataloging. In this presentation, the author discusses the implications and questions raised about social cataloging, a review of the research, the characteristics of the studies on social tagging and cataloging, and how social cataloging works.
Date: April 18, 2012
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Man on the Beat: John Gilliland and The Pop Chronicles

Presentation for the 2008 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Annual Conference. This presentation discusses John Gilliland and The Pop Chronicles.
Date: March 28, 2008
Creator: Justice, Andrew & Thorn, Jonathan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing the Success of a Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians

Presentation for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. This presentation describes the assessment of a mentoring program at an academic library.
Date: December 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mapping the Inner Monstress

This presentation was delivered as part of a literary conference on "Monstrosity and the Topography of Fear" sponsored by the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. It argues that the Alex Garland film Annihilation (2018) and the Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda comic series Monstress (2015) both enact post-human dramas of colonization by the Other, figured as both alien and natural forces, but leave room for the possibility of "hybrid bodies" that allow for integration of the human and the non-human, and a mutual agency that might be productive of new ways of existing and acting in harmony.
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Martin, John Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborating in Tough Times: Responding to State Cuts

This presentation was for a panel session with librarians from school, public, academic, and the North Texas Library Partners (NTLP) at the Texas Library Association (TLA) annual conference. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaboration strategies during difficult financial periods and funding cuts.
Date: April 18, 2012
Creator: LaBoon, Jennifer D.; Ewell, Lana; Sears, Suzanne; Leuzinger, Julie & Wright, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library

Texas Digital Library (TDL) Metadata Working Group Update

This presentation provides an update on three projects the Texas Digital Library Metadata Working Group (TDL-MWG) is working on. These include designing a metadata information website, creating best practices for images and datasets, and creating metadata courses for Texas Digital Library (TDL) training.
Date: 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Davis, Jee-Hyun; Thomale, Jason; Chen, Mingyu; Mercer, Holly; Hazzard, Jeanne et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Developing the DPLA Texas Service Hub, v.2. A collaboration to build the next generation aggregator for Texas

Presentation sharing the goals and mission of a pilot between the University of North Texas and the Texas Digital Library to develop a prototype of a new service hub for Texas to provide metadata from collections across the state to the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA).
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Park, Kristi L.; Steans, Ryan; Halbert, Martin; Hiott, Judith; Woodward, Nick & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides background on the Denton Declaration, an open data manifesto created in 2012, before introducing panelists for a discussion on the future of open data and open access.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library