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Maintaining Quality Metadata: Toward Effective Digital Resource Lifecycle Management
Book chapter on maintaining quality metadata and effective digital resource lifecycle management.
Date:
2008
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Your Local Public Library
This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
Date:
2009
Creator:
Hoffman, Starr; Downey, Annie & Sears, Suzanne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Preserving Our Collections, Preserving Our Missions
This book chapter discusses digital collection preservation. The authors provide a philosophical base for cultural memory organizations' need to participate in distributed digital preservation solutions as community-owned and community-led initiatives. This chapter will be useful for all readers, particularly those with questions about the value of collaborative engagement in the digital arena for cultural memory organizations.
Date:
2010
Creator:
Halbert, Martin & Skinner, Katherine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Educating the Community: Preserving Tomorrow's Treasures Today
This book chapter discusses educating communities. and preserving tomorrow's treasures today. Librarians, curators, archivists, and volunteers work hard to conserve and preserve materials as they are added to their collections, insuring that the materials can be safely used. However, not all genealogical and historical information is held in cultural institutions; unknown numbers of valuable information sources reside with individuals and in residences. By educating the community today on how to protect the treasures in their care, we have the potential to minimize the repairs needed for these items in the future.
Date:
April 5, 2012
Creator:
Phillips, Jessica
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Theses and Dissertations from Print to ETD: The Nuances of Preserving and Accessing Those in Music
Book chapter discussing the unique challenges of digitizing music theses and dissertations.
Date:
2014
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Hartsock, Ralph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
"The Silicon Dream": Breaking Glass on the Small Screen
Book chapter discussing the Brian Gibson film "Breaking Glass" and the author's experiences viewing the film and thoughts about the impressions it made.
Date:
March 2008
Creator:
Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Peasant Union Movement: The Quest for the Political Organization of Peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s
This book chapter discusses the peasant union movement and the quest for the political organization of peasants in the Soviet Union in the 1920s.
Date:
2007
Creator:
Velikanova, Olga V.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Reengineering The Portal to Texas History
This book chapter reports on a case study on the activities, findings, and lessons learned during a project that replaced the legacy Digital Asset Management (DAM) system of The Portal to Texas History at the University of North Texas Libraries with an open source system.
Date:
2013
Creator:
Murray, Kathleen R.; Phillips, Mark Edward; Hicks, William; Weng, Neena & Belden, Dreanna
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Metadata for ETD Lifecycle Management
Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes the roles of metadata in facilitating the ETD lifecycle, methods to capture metadata manually and automatically, examples of programs using metadata to enhance ETD access, and strategies to manage metadata over time.
Date:
March 21, 2014
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Options for ETD Programs
Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes ETD access policies and intellectual property issues, deposit procedures, repository system options, ETD program management and ETD program services.
Date:
March 21, 2014
Creator:
Halbert, Martin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Open (Flu) Season: A Case Study of The American Influenza Epidemic of 1918: A Digital Encyclopedia
Book chapter discussing a project by the University of Michigan's Center for the History of Medicine (CHM) in partnership with the University of Michigan Library's MPublishing division, to create an open source digital collection of archival, primary, and interpretive materials related to the history of the 1918 influenza pandemic in the United States.
Date:
July 31, 2013
Creator:
Judkins, Julie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan Library
Book chapter on the evolution of publishing agreements at the University of Michigan Library. Taking as an example an open-access journal with a single editor, this chapter discusses the various configurations of rights agreements used by the University of Michigan Library throughout the evolution of its publishing operation, the advantages of the various models, and the reasons for moving from one to another.
Date:
March 2015
Creator:
Hawkins, Kevin S.
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Hiring and Training Graduate Assistants for the Academic Library
Book chapter discussing hiring and training graduate assistants for the academic library.
Date:
2011
Creator:
O'Toole, Erin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library
Book chapter discussing mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library.
Date:
2011
Creator:
O'Toole, Erin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Performance Practice: Crafting a Historically Informed Interpretation of Nouvelles Poésies
This book chapter discusses performance practice and crafting a historically informed interpretation of "Nouvelles Poésies."
Date:
November 20, 2014
Creator:
Justice, Andrew
System:
The UNT Digital Library
HAM: A Hybrid Aquisitions Model for Public Libraries
This book chapter discusses how to operationalize acquisitions through a discussion of various models of acquisitions, encompassing budgeting, working with vendors, selection, ordering, receiving, processing, and overall administration of the process.
Date:
2014
Creator:
Brannon, Sian
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Skins and Bones: The Horror of the Real
This book chapter examines the ways in which horror, as an aesthetic mode or sentiment, is bound to an experiential perception of "the real."
Date:
March 25, 2013
Creator:
Martin, John
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A snare in every human path: "Tamerlane" and the Paternal Scapegoat
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This book chapter examines Edgar Allan Poe's poem "Tamerlane" through Poe's reimagination of the artist-as-scapegoat figure as a viable alternative for preserving artistic integrity in the face of paternal and literary authority.
Date:
September 5, 2013
Creator:
Martin, John
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Stop Folding the Dough: Intervening to Decide Whether or Not to Assess Again
This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of the Assessment Workgroup at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Brannon, Sian
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rendering Repositories: Taking out the Fat and Getting to the Impact
This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how to survey users for understanding the perceived value of digital library collections.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Brannon, Sian & Waugh, Laura
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rubrics and Rutabagas: Only One is Useful for Assessing Staff During Evaluations
This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how rubrics can be used for discussing employee performance expectations and evaluations.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Brannon, Sian & Leuzinger, Julie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Professional Development Assessment Paella
This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of a professional development program at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Sassen, Catherine; Harker, Karen & O'Toole, Erin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tower Cakes for Ranking Subscription Resources
This book chapter contains a recipe detailing a method to evaluate subscription-based resources based on objective data and subjective input.
Date:
2017
Creator:
Harker, Karen; Enoch, Todd & Crawford, Laurel
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Facilitating Discovery and Use of Digital Cultural Heritage Resources with Folksonomies: A Review
This article explores the strengths and limitations of folksonomies through traditional indexing and taxonomies with an emphasis on the history of cultural heritage information retrieval.
Date:
June 2014
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Rorissa, Abebe
System:
The UNT Digital Library