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Lifecycle Management of ETDs: Toward A Collaborative Approach To Stakeholders' Involvement In ETDs Curation

This presentation discusses the management and curation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). It highlights and discusses the early findings of an IMLS-funded project on Lifecycle Management of ETDs.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Henry, Geneva & Stark, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Outreach and Collaboration: Strategies for Digital Repositories

Presentation for the 2012 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses outreach and collaboration strategies for digital repositories.
Date: May 24, 2012
Creator: Waugh, Laura
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

Welcome Home: Reintegration of Veterans and Families

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home and discusses the reintegration of veterans and families. The author directs the Family Attachment Lab and is conducting the Student Veteran Research Project. In this presentation, she discusses the family relationships of veterans after deployment.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Riggs, Shelley A.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Getting to know you... LEAP

This presentation discusses LEAP and getting to know students, mentors, and the University of North Texas (UNT) College of Information faculty.
Date: December 8, 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Batman, Cindy
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Collective Case Study of Veterans Inside an Arts and Crafts Room and their Perceptions Regarding Empowerment

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home. The author discusses methods and findings from a project she participated in related to how veterans narrated their experiences through art. Her component of the study evaluated participants and described what they gained through creating arts and crafts.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Hasio, Cindy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preservation of Newspapers: Preliminary Findings of the Chronicles in Preservation Project

This presentation discusses the preliminary findings of the 'Chronicles in Preservation' project involving the preservation of newspapers. In this presentation, the authors describe the project background, the state of the field report, and the phase 1 findings and progress.
Date: October 4, 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Schultz, Matt
System: The UNT Digital Library

Quality Review of Digital Newspapers: Lessons Learned at UNT

This presentation was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes a quality review of digital newspapers and lessons learned at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: September 27, 2012
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library

Processing Non-English Content

This presentation was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP) Awardee Conference in Washington, D.C. The presentation describes the NDNP New Mexico project's experience encoding ALTO OCR file language codes to enable enhanced discovery of its Spanish language content on the Chronicling America website.
Date: September 27, 2012
Creator: Weidner, Andrew
System: The UNT Digital Library

Food Habits and Racial Thinking

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on The Food We Eat. In this presentation, the author discusses race and food habits.
Date: October 24, 2012
Creator: Wallach, Jennifer Jensen, 1974-
System: The UNT Digital Library

DDA and STEM @ UNT: What we have learned

This presentation discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) and Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) at the University of North Texas (UNT). For the Texas STEM Librarians' Conference, the author will present data and information about the pilot program, and how the Discovery Collection and the purchased titles are distributed, particularly regarding the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Portal Partner Update

This presentation was given at a dinner celebrating The Portal to Texas History. The presentation describes recent projects, discusses feedback from Portal users, describes the work of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, and provides examples of how graduate students have used The Portal to Texas History for their research.
Date: September 20, 2012
Creator: Carlisle, Tara; Krahmer, Ana & Liles, Deborah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mining Newspaper Archives

This presentation discusses mining online newspaper archives. The topics in this presentation include the types of information found in these newspapers, the technology and standards for digitizing newspapers and offering effective search and navigation, ways to search, view, and browse the newspapers and how to use the search results.
Date: February 2, 2012
Creator: Carlisle, Tara & Murray, Kathleen R.
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

From Baristas to Books: Creating and Managing a Blended Service Desk

Invited presentation for the Texas Library Association (TLA) District 7 annual meeting. The author discusses creating and managing a blended service desk and the strategies and approaches of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: October 5, 2012
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
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

La Importancia De Promover La Educación Bilingüe Alrededor Del Mundo

Presentation promoting the importance of bilingual education on behalf of the National Association of Bilingual Education (NABE).
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Boyd, Rossana R.
System: The UNT Digital Library