Presentation for the 2017 Dodging the Memory Hole Conference. This presentation provides an overview of the ingest of Texas Press Association PDFs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program at UNT Libraries.

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.

Script notes for the presentation "User Directed Scrapbook Digitization" at the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a study to understand user preferences in the digitization of scrapbooks.

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter.

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation focuses on photogrammetry methods used for model creation as well as metadata description, uploading, and viewing of the models in the UNT Digital Library.

Presentation for the 2018 Digital Library Federation Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a study to understand user preferences in the digitization of scrapbooks.

Presentation detailing the customized workflow established for the creation of the Byrd Williams Family Photography Collection in the UNT Digital Library, as well as the unique problems and solutions that arose throughout the course of the project. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.

This presentation describes a comparison of two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.

This abstract describes the presentation "Exploratory Analysis of the End of Term Web Archive: Comparing Two Collections," comparing two web archives of the US Federal web domain collected at the end of the Bush administration (2008) and the end of the first Obama administration (2012). This exploratory analysis tracks changes in media types, TLDs, domains, and subdomains.

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management as part of the panel "Big Data and Government Information." This presentation describes the work of the End of Term Archive to preserve the federal web.

Presented at the 2017 Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Conference. This poster describes a study of metadata quality assurance within the Texas Patents Collection of The Portal to Texas History.

Presented at the 2017 Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Fest Conference. This lightning round presentation shares the results of a web survey of DPLA partners' methods and representation practices of scrapbooks and plans for usability studies.

This paper describes a study to investigate automatic type classification using machine learning approaches.

Poster presented at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association for Information Science & Technology. This poster describes a study to investigate automatic type classification using machine learning approaches.

Presentation for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference, Library and Information Technology Association session. This presentation describes current methods for 3D scanning and modeling, and how this technology has been implemented through three different projects involving higher education.

Presentation the 2018 Computational Resources on South Asian Languages Symposium. This presentation describes how linguistic resources are made accessible through the University of North Texas Libraries digital collections.

Presented at the 2016 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a pilot digitization skills training program for student assistants in the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, including updates and challenges from the 2016 harvest.

This poster describes objectives of an outreach plan designed to increase the number of items and contributors for the UNT Scholarly Works collection.

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.

Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.

Presentation on how feedback is handled by the University of North Texas Digital Library, including the management system, staffing resources, and some historical data. It focuses on the creation of decision trees to guide staff members through answering different types of questions and requests. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.

This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

This poster details a study of index terms in UNT's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation collection to understand the effectiveness of terms in matching users' queries.