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Welcoming Families to the Academic Library: Lessons Learned Supporting Student-Parents

Presentation discussing the development of an inclusive and supportive environment for student-parents by Access Services at the University of North Texas Libraries. This presentation will discuss the challenges encountered during the implementation of these initiatives, including the lack of attendance and engagement with the target audience.
Date: January 20, 2024
Creator: Brents, Madison & Akers, Emily
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

In the Know UNT Library Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility Activities

Presentation highlighting the activities of the UNT Libraries regarding DEIA (diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility). It was hosted by the UNT Libraries' Dean Council and the Library Council for Diversity and Inclusion.
Date: December 20, 2021
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Brannon, Sian; Roy, Meranda M.; Dooley, Yvonne; Gieringer, Morgan Davis; Cleveland, Susannah, 1972- et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Celebrating a Legacy of Global Friendships: The Experience of an Ethiopian Cohort

Presentation given at the Fulbright Association’s Virtual 44th Annual Conference that presents the experiences of multiple Fulbright scholars' research and service at various universities in Ethiopia.
Date: October 20, 2021
Creator: Ford, Angela; Kidane, Addis; Wilfong, Tara & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Monitoring Usage of Open Access Long-Form Content

Presentation for NISO Virtual Conference "Long Form Content: Ebooks, Print Volumes and the Concerns of Those Who Use Both." The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation, part of a NISO virtual conference (https://www.niso.org/events/2019/03/long-form-content-ebooks-print-volumes-and-concerns-those-who-use-both ), provides a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.
Date: March 20, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

How Should You Publish?

Presentation for the "Building an Open Textbook Publishing Program", the Open Textbook Publishing Winter Webinar Series 2019. This presentation focuses on the high-level decisions necessary when deciding how to offer a publishing service.
Date: February 20, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Turtles All The Way Down To The Tracks: What And Where Is Terrapin Station?

Presentation discussing the interpretation and importance of the Grateful Dead's song, "Terrapin Station." It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 40th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: February 20, 2019
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Partners and Proposal Readiness: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals

Presentation for the 2018 STEM Librarians South conference. This presentation. This presentation shares experiences from the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ workshops to prepare STEM graduate students to write their dissertation or thesis proposals.
Date: July 20, 2018
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
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

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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Memories, Memes, and Metadata: Toward a Picture Theory for Digital Humanities

Presentation for the LAUC-B 2017 Conference “Focus on the Visual: Digital Humanities and Libraries”. This presentation looks at the visual and verbal language used in zines to develop a picture theory for digital humanities.
Date: October 20, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term Web Archive: The What, The Why, The How

Presentation for Data Rescue Denton. This presentation provides an overview of the End of Term Archive project, with a comparison of the 2008, 2012, and 2016 harvests.
Date: May 20, 2017
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Professional Opinion vs. User Directed Digitization, Round 1

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.
Date: April 20, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Understanding White Privilege--An Introduction

Part two of the Unlikely Allies in the Academy Series, hosted by the Office of Diversity and Inclusion for continued dialogue based upon the book "Unlikely Allies in the Academy: Women of Color and White Women in Conversation." This presentation by Dr. Frances E. Kendall, author of the chapter “A White Woman Talks to Other White Women," unpacks the concept of privilege, and dissects the institutional nature of white privilege.
Date: April 20, 2017
Creator: Kendall, Frances E.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of Online-Only Journal Quality from Analysis of Email Solicitations

This presentation contains an analysis of ~600 solicitation emails related to 317 scholarly journals received within a one-year period to assess the quality of publishing venues available.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Fair Open Access: A Roadmap

This presentation provides a model for flipping subscription journals to Open Access using Linguistics in Open Access (LingOA) as an example.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Rooryck, Johan
System: The UNT Digital Library

GIS Trends and Open Access

Presentation for the 2016 Open Access Symposium discussing Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software and data in relation to open access initiatives.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burns, Douglas & Rodriguez, Allyson
System: The UNT Digital Library

Improving Openness of Scholarly Communication

This presentation contains an overview of the Open Science Framework as a free, open scholarly commons.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Nosek, Brian
System: The UNT Digital Library

OA Monographs: The Cost of Creating Them Today To Make Them Open For Tomorrow

This presentation contains findings from a 2015 Mellon-funded study to understand the costs of publishing monographs, and their next steps in building a tool to estimate publishing costs.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Maron, Nancy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Minds But Closed Access. Why Are There So Few Gold Open Access LIS Journals? And Why Are So Many Librarians Unwilling To Unlock Their Scholarship?

This presentation contains an evaluation of the open access availability of library and information science literature.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Baker, Sarah & Chaudhuri, Jayati
System: The UNT Digital Library

SHARE in Open Science and Open Access

This presentation contains an overview of SHARE, an open dataset repository to track research projects across the research lifecycle.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Walters, Tyler
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sustaining OA with Publishing Cooperatives

This presentation reports on the MacArthur-funded Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, which is investigating the viability of publishing cooperatives through an examination of pilot projects in Africa, Canada, and the United States.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Stranack, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub

This presentation will discuss why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise, and will draw on the example of Sci-Hub.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Elbakyan, Alexandra
System: The UNT Digital Library

Language Archiving: Where We've Been and Where We're Going

This NSF-funded workshop initiated a research trajectory that brings the fields of language archives and user-centered design (UCD) into dialogue, with the goal of improving users’ experiences with language archives and making them more accessible and useful to diverse user groups. The workshop documented perspectives of key stakeholder groups and generated initial conceptual frameworks to guide further research. This slide deck accompanied the presentation by Gary Holton on language archiving.
Date: February 20, 2016
Creator: Holton, Gary
System: The UNT Digital Library