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Art therapy and music reminiscence activity in the prevention of cognitive decline: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial (open access)

Art therapy and music reminiscence activity in the prevention of cognitive decline: study protocol for a randomized controlled trial

This article explores the feasibility of using art therapy and music reminiscence activity to improve the cognition of community living elderly with mild cognitive impairment.
Date: July 12, 2017
Creator: Mahendran, Rathi; Rawtaer, Iris; Fam, Johnson; Wong, Jonathan; Kumar, Alan Prem; Gandhi, Mihir et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers (open access)

Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers

This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Marcedit and Connexion in the Audio Rapid Cataloging Project at University of North Texas

Presentation for the 2017 Southeast Chapter of the Music Library Association. This presentaiton describes the workflow for audio rapid cataloging of a collection of LPs.
Date: February 13, 2017
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948- & Macias, Joshua
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Access Methods for Resources of Material Culture: Genres and Forms

Presentation for the 2017 Annual Conference of the International Society for Landscape, Place, and Material Culture. This presentation focuses on access in relation to genre and form projects.
Date: October 20, 2017
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Hidden Microphones, Open Collections: The Classification of Unofficial Concert Recordings

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation discusses unofficial music records, and how they have been classified and archived.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Batch Processes: Using Connexion Client, MarcEdit, and Microsoft Access

Presentation for the 2017 Music OCLC Users Group (MOUG) during the Music Library Association National Convention. This presentation discusses how to expedite the cataloging of similar items using Connexion Client, MarcEdit, and Microsoft Access.
Date: February 21, 2017
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Legacy of Willis Conover in Hungary: Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Presentation on the legacy of Voice of America broadcaster Willis Conover's interaction with and propagation of Hungarian jazz.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Life-Changing Magic of OpenRefine: The Open-Source Art of Data Decluttering and Organizing

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of a workshop on using OpenRefine to make sense of data, standardize, correct, and rearrange data elements, automate tedious editing, and prepare data for export to other platforms for a variety of uses.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cross-Sectional Studies of the Impacts of Background Sounds on Math and Language Performance

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation reports a series of seven studies examining the extent to which background sounds impact individuals' math and language task performance.
Date: October 26, 2017
Creator: Cockerham, Debbie; Lin, Lin; Chang, Zhengsi & Schellen, Mike
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Found You! Identifying and Accessing Hidden Collections

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' efforts to identify, document, and increase access to hidden or obscured collections.
Date: May 11, 2017
Creator: Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Authorities: UNT Libraries Digital Collections

Presentation for the 2017 meeting of the IMLS Shareable Authorities Forum. This presentation provides an in-depth look at institutional practices regarding authorities at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: April 11, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries: Building Collections and Collaborations

Presentation for the 2017 Symposium on Developing Infrastructure for Computational Resources on South Asian Languages. This presentation provides an overview of digital preservation collections in the UNT Digital Library.
Date: November 17, 2017
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries Digital Projects Lab

Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation discusses the workflow procedures of the UNT Libraries Digital Projects Lab.
Date: November 30, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Final Report (open access)

Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Final Report

This report documents the final report the Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network project funded through the University of North Texas Office of Faculty Success Team Mentoring Grant. This final report includes a summary of Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 activities, along with other related events.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
MARTIAL Eagles Class Performance Fall 2017 captions transcript

MARTIAL Eagles Class Performance Fall 2017

Video of the Fall 2017 Male Alliance for a Rigorous, Transformative and Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning (MARTIAL) class performance. This video contains creative works by student members that describe experiences from their freshmen year at the University of North Texas.
Date: December 13, 2017
Creator: University of North Texas. Male Alliance for a Rigorous, Transformative and Interdisciplinary Approach to Learning (MARTIAL)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game (open access)

Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game

The handout consists of an example of a catalog record for a tabletop game (including genre terms), an authority record for a genre term, a reference to a list of genre terms for tabletop games, and a bibliography of works on genre terms.
Date: April 19, 2017
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Retrospective Thesis Digitization Project in Cataloging and Metadata Services

Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation discusses cataloging and metadata issues encountered during a retrospective digitization of theses and dissertations.
Date: November 30, 2017
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Deciphering Signatures for Improved Discoverability of ETDs

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. This lightning round presentation describes the creation of a database for deciphering and cataloging signatures for recently-digitized theses and dissertations.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Wolf, Stacey & Yanowski, Kevin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
“Being Wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring One Islamic School’s Efforts to Educate Against Extremism (open access)

“Being Wholly Muslim and Wholly American”: Exploring One Islamic School’s Efforts to Educate Against Extremism

This article reports findings from a qualitative case study of an Islamic school in the United States that counters religious extremism through the promotion and development of an American Muslim identity in its students, an ideology that advances the idea that an individual can be wholly American and wholly Muslim without any incongruity.
Date: 2017
Creator: Brooks, Melanie C. & Ezzani, Miriam
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Student Motivation Strategies to Start the New School Year!

Presentation for developing student motivation with an emphasis in bilingual education or ESL students. It was presented as part of the Education for Hispanic Dual-Language Institute held at W. H. Adamson High School in Dallas, Texas on October 14, 2017.
Date: October 14, 2017
Creator: Boyd, Rossana R. & González-Carriedo, Ricardo
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders (open access)

"Remixing" Current Events: Navigating the Transmedia Terrain with Fifth Graders

This article discusses two democratic media literacy skills that teachers can model and teach to help students as 21st century citizens.
Date: March 2017
Creator: Krutka, Daniel G.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spotlight on North Texas: Final Performance Report (open access)

Spotlight on North Texas: Final Performance Report

Final performance report for the project Spotlight on North Texas, prepared for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). In collaboration with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image, University of North Texas Libraries preserved and provided long-term digital access to materials related to Denton County's motion picture histories. This project was funded for $11,536.
Date: July 6, 2017
Creator: Treat, Laura
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
American-British Sporting Rivalries and the Making of the Global Sports Industry (open access)

American-British Sporting Rivalries and the Making of the Global Sports Industry

This article examines a key aspect of American sports history within a transnational context.
Date: January 31, 2017
Creator: Pope, Steven W. & Nauright, John
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library