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Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site (open access)

Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site

This paper introduces the concept of web site usability, provides a brief introduction to the techniques, offers examples from two “real life” studies that show how the techniques of formal usability studies, focus groups, and card sorts can be used and offers tips and tricks for employing these techniques.
Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries (open access)

The Heart of Librarianship: A Topical Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.
Date: July 5, 2019
Creator: Henson, Brea
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s (open access)

The Myth of the Besieged Fortress: Soviet Mass Perception in the 1920s - 1930s

This work discusses Soviet mass perception from the 1920s to the 1930s. This work was supported by the Research Support Scheme of the Open Society Support Foundation, grant No. 805/1998, and by the Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Toronto, Canada. The work has also greatly benefitted from the discussion at the workshops held by the Stalin-Era Research and Archives Project at CREES, University of Toronto.
Date: 2002
Creator: Velikanova, Olga V.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Women, Jobs and Opportunity in the 21st Century (open access)

Women, Jobs and Opportunity in the 21st Century

This paper discusses how women have surpassed men in obtaining under graduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees, yet they are choosing to limit their lifetime earnings. They also examine choices women make in school and the work place, and social pressures that cause women to gravitate toward certain occupations.
Date: unknown
Creator: Carnevale, Anthony P. & Smith, Nicole
System: The UNT Digital Library
Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era (open access)

Revisiting Indexing & Abstracting in the Digital Era

Paper presented for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This paper discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.
Date: February 12, 2018
Creator: King, Samantha; Boyedoe, Howard; Chacon, Andrea; Hall, Molli; Krizansky, Maria; O'Bryant, Kathleen et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Survey of Art in Elementary Children's Literature from Prehistoric to Modern Times (open access)

A Survey of Art in Elementary Children's Literature from Prehistoric to Modern Times

A paper from Barbara Ivy titled "A Survey of Art in Elementary Children's Literature from Prehistoric to Modern Times" for Dr. R. William McCarter's Special Problem course at the University of North Texas. In the paper, Ivy list and describes different literature that pertains to educating children in art. The literature is diving up geographic locations, architecture, people, and mythology.
Date: 199X
Creator: Ivy, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grant Proposal: Challenge to Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal Code, 1990 (open access)

Grant Proposal: Challenge to Section 21.06 of the Texas Penal Code, 1990

Grant proposal submitted by the Texas Human Rights Foundation to the Live Oak Fund for Change requesting funding for a project to challenge Texas Penal Code Section 21.06 as it is discriminatory towards LGBT people.
Date: unknown
Creator: Texas Human Rights Foundation, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management (open access)

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management

The 17th International Conference on Knowledge Management was held in the historic city of Potsdam, Germany. The conference was among the first post-pandemic face to face conferences, and the overall theme of the 17th edition of the ICKM conference rightly focused on “Knowledge, Uncertainty and Risks: From individual to global scale” at different levels of analysis and agency.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Heisig, Peter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis (open access)

Translocation as a Population Restoration Technique for Northern Bobwhites: A Review and Synthesis

This paper includes a review and recommendation by the National Bobwhite Technical Committee Science Subcommittee, along with a discussion of the state of science on key aspects of bobwhite conservation, best management practices for translocation, and ways to reduce uncertainty about implementation.
Date: July 25, 2017
Creator: Martin, James A.; Applegate, Roger D.; Dailey, Thomas V.; Downey, Michelle; Emmerich, Beth; Hernández, Fidel et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library