Resource Type

States

The Portal to Texas History: Filling In Your Story

Presented for the Red River Historical and Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History, including information on search functions and available research types.
Date: June 12, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library

Taking Your Students Through Time: By Traveling Through Newspapers

Presentation introducing the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and providing possible uses for it in the classroom. It was presented for the Fall 2020 HIST 4750.001, Social Studies Teaching Methods, course.
Date: October 27, 2020
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: The Time Machine to Find Your Ancestors

Presentation for the East Texas Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of how The Portal to Texas History can be used for genealogical research.
Date: October 14, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

How to Fit In? Integrating a web archiving program in your organization

This presentation combines session slides from the 2012 International Internet Preservation Consortium sponsored workshop on "How to fit in? Integrate a web archiving program in your organization. This workshop aims to investigate the challenges and methods involved in implementing web archiving in all mainstream activities of a heritage institution.
Date: November 26, 2012
Creator: Derrot, Sophie; Oury, Clément; Rives, Caroline; Jacquet, Françoise; Lorthios, Annick; Sablonnière, Marguerite et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Expanded William Waybourn Blackstone presentation with presenter's notes]

An expanded version of a presentation given by William Waybourn at Blackstone headquarters in New York City on June 25, 2019, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The presentation reflects on Waybourn's involvement in gay rights and AIDS activism nationally and in Dallas, Texas. An additional slide, written on July 29, 2020, was included shortly before the presentation was donated to UNT Special Collections that reflects on the parallels between the mismanagement of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic health crisis. This version of the presentation includes Waybourn's speaker's notes.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Waybourn, William
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking the Box: Gender Stereotypes and Sexual Violence

Presentation from the 2019 Equity and Diversity Conference. This presentation discusses how gender stereotyping can box people into social norms that may lead to abuse, defines and examines the scope of sexual violence, and discusses ways to prevent sexual violence.
Date: February 28, 2019
Creator: Parker Goode, Sonya & Woods, Sean
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

Time Travel Classroom: Historic Newspapers Online [Spring 2018]

Presentation providing an overview of The Portal to Texas History, with examples of resources available within the repository. It specifically focuses on newspapers and how to use them for historical context and primary source information.
Date: February 20, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative

Presentation highlighting the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. The Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative aims to remove some of the barriers trans individuals face accessing information and to provide more equitable access to our services and collections. The presentation shares the different phases of the project with guidance for others looking to start similar initiatives at their library, even if there is little administrative support.
Date: March 22, 2023
Creator: Condrey, Coby & Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aligning Social Media Harvesting and Web Harvesting

Presentation for the 2016 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly and Web Archiving Conference. This presentation describes the social media and web archiving research communities, and similarities to their web harvesting activities.
Date: April 14, 2016
Creator: Littman, Justin
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Texas Digital Newspaper Program: Reading Through the Eyes of Time

Presentation introducing the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on The Portal to Texas History. It provides examples on different ways to explore the collection and includes other, similar resources that might be of interest. It was presented at the RootsTech 2021 virtual conference.
Date: February 26, 2021
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: Walking in the Footprints of History

Presentation for the Cedar Hill Genealogy Society. This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History can facilitate genealogical research.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Expanded William Waybourn Blackstone presentation]

An expanded version of a presentation given by William Waybourn at Blackstone headquarters in New York City on June 25, 2019, in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. The presentation reflects on Waybourn's involvement in gay rights and AIDS activism nationally and in Dallas, Texas. An additional slide, written on July 29, 2020, was included shortly before the presentation was donated to UNT Special Collections that reflects on the parallels between the mismanagement of the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s and the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic health crisis.
Date: July 29, 2020
Creator: Waybourn, William
System: The UNT Digital Library

Time Travel Classroom: Historic Newspapers Online [Fall 2017]

Presentation providing an overview of The Portal to Texas History, with examples of resources available within the repository. It specifically focuses on newspapers and how to use them for historical context and primary source information.
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making Sense of the Curriculum for the Knowledge Management Practitioner within Society 5.0

This presentation for panel discussion #396 is about making sense of the curriculum for the Knowledge Management Practitioner within Society 5.0. It addresses the iSchool's version of "harnessing the power of information and technology, and maximizing the potential of humans" by recommending forward-thinking KM curricula and capabilities relevant to Society 5.0.
Date: March 28, 2023
Creator: Mearns, Martie; Bester, Elmi; Holmner, Marlene; Meyer, Anika; Dalkir, Kimiz & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitization in Three Strokes: Digital Commonwealth, Minnesota Digital Library, and The Portal to Texas History

This presentation is part of the panel "Digitization in Three Strokes: Digital Commonwealth, Minnesota Digital Library, and The Portal to Texas History," from DPLAfest 2016. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History project through the Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program.
Date: April 15, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Mangum, Jake
System: The UNT Digital Library

Automating the Authority Control Process

This presentation introduces ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. The presenter describes how their library handles authority control, describe vendors and programs, and demonstrate a few automated authority control processes using MarcEdit, Sierra, OCLC and a few other programs.
Date: May 26, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating Open Access to a Historic Newspaper from an International Port City [Presentation]

Presentation exploring a collaboration between the University of North Texas' The Portal to Texas History and the Rosenberg Library to archive and provide digital, open access to Galveston's newspapers.
Date: July 27, 2022
Creator: Krahmer, Ana; Edsall, Brooke & Martino Henry, Lauren
System: The UNT Digital Library

Working Towards an Index of Music Printed in American Newspapers: 1900-1920

Presentation highlighting a project to create an index of music printed and shared via newspapers in the United States from 1900 to 1920. It also shares some results of the project so far. It was presented at the Texas Music Library Association's fall meeting held October 20-21, 2023 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 20, 2023
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library