Information Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, The Results, and the Future (open access)

Information Seeking Behavior of Clergy: The Research, The Results, and the Future

This article reviews the information seeking behaviors of clergy.
Date: June 29, 2015
Creator: Dankasa, Jacob
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis (open access)

Unveiling the Co-Word Structures Among Mobile Computing, Mobile Commerce and Mobile Application Research: A Science Mapping Analysis

Article on the interplay over time among mobile computing, commerce and applications. The study performed is a co-word analysis for a corpus of 4821 SCI/SSCI indexed papers related to mobility in the Web of Science (WoS) database from 1995 to 2013. The emerging concepts demonstrated in the strategic diagrams and the associated co-word structures have implications for future research.
Date: 2015
Creator: Chang, Hsia-Ching & Wang, Chen-Ya
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management (open access)

Building a Framework of Metadata Change to Support Knowledge Management

Article defining ways that metadata records might change (addition, deletion, or modification) and describing a study to evaluate multiple versions of selected records in the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections to observe the types and frequency of various changes.
Date: April 17, 2015
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia (open access)

Student, School, Parent Connectedness, and School Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Saudi Arabia

This article investigates select school behaviors, including school absenteeism, engaging in fights, and discipline for misconduct at school as well as their association with the school environment, school and home connectedness.
Date: October 31, 2015
Creator: AlMakadma, AbdulKarim S. & Ramisetty-Mikler, Suhasini
System: The UNT Digital Library
Representation of Recorded Knowledge and Extended Date/Time Format: A Case Study of the Digital Public Library of America (open access)

Representation of Recorded Knowledge and Extended Date/Time Format: A Case Study of the Digital Public Library of America

This paper presents results of a study that analyzed representation of dates and time in one of the largest aggregators of digital content in the world -- the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA). The findings demonstrate both similarities and differences in date and time representation across DPLA content hub and service hub provider groups.
Date: 2015-11-04/2015-11-06
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Phillips, Mark Edward; Kizhakkethil, Priya; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
Challenges for Educational Technologists in the 21st Century (open access)

Challenges for Educational Technologists in the 21st Century

This article describes the challenges that 21st century educational technologists are, and will be addressing as they undertake the effective integration of new technologies into K-12 educational systems and learning environments.
Date: September 17, 2015
Creator: Mayes, Robin; Natividad, Gloria & Spector, J. Michael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research-Informed Strategies to Address Educational Challenges Ina Digitally Networked World (open access)

Research-Informed Strategies to Address Educational Challenges Ina Digitally Networked World

This article provides the background and aim of EDUSummiIT, the Third International Summit on Information and Communication Technologies in Education, with an overview of the contents of this special issue.
Date: September 3, 2015
Creator: Voogt, Joke; Knezek, Gerald & Pareja Roblin, Natalie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience (open access)

Service learning in action: Integrating reflection to deepen the educational experience

This article focuses on service learning projects (SLPs) sponsored by the University of North Texas College of Information. A constructivist learning environment perspective was applied to the potential for library science international service learning projects to provide a short term learning environment that introduces pedagogy, provides the opportunity to develop and apply new skills, energizes students to develop cultural competence, and develops reflective skills towards the pursuit of wisdom.
Date: February 2015
Creator: Baron, Benjamin K. & Schultz-Jones, Barbara
System: The UNT Digital Library