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Infrastructure for the UNT Digital Library

This presentation discusses creating workflows for digitization projects as well as data models and descriptive metadata schema. It describes the processes of creating a workable model to digitize objects.
Date: July 15, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History and Digital Projects at UNT

This presentation discusses the two digital collections in the UNT Libraries, The Portal to Texas History and the Digital Library. It discusses the benefits of these collections, how the partnerships work with organizations who contribute to the collections, and gives examples of the projects and items within these two collections.
Date: July 15, 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reference Beyond the Desk: Nontraditional Modes of Reference

This presentation discusses virtual reference services in libraries. The topics include virtual reference systems, with examples of what other institutions have adopted, collaborative virtual reference services with examples, and how reference librarians away from their desk and even off campus have developed new referencing services.
Date: April 15, 2011
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library

Economic Impacts of the Natural Gas Industry in North Texas

This presentation is part of the UNT Speaks Out faculty lecture series, Gas Well Drilling: What Does it Mean for North Texas? In this presentation, the author discusses the economic benefits to natural gas production, reviews the most recent study on regional economic impacts, considers recent trends in drilling activity, and considers some of the downsides.
Date: February 15, 2011
Creator: Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Louisiana Virtual Academic Library Conference. This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' multi-year effort to improve vendor relations by proactively preventing problems and by responding effectively to new situations as they arise.
Date: November 15, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL Microcard Scanning Project

Presentation on the topic of microcard digitization presented at the annual meeting for the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL). This presentation discusses the opaque microcard format and a project conducted by the UNT Libraries to produce high-quality digital files from the format.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Microfiche Scanning at UNT

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the digitization of microfiche as part of the technical report digitization activities at the UNT Libraries.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

NACA Metadata Uplift Update

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the metadata cleanup activities for the collection of technical reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which is hosted by the UNT Libraries for TRAIL.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessment of Cataloging Services in an Academic Library

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses the results of a survey that was administered from October 27 through November 17, 2014. The survey assessed how Public Services employees rate the importance of Cataloging and Metadata Services activities, and how satisfied Public Services employees are with Cataloging and Metadata Services activities.
Date: April 15, 2015
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; Loafman, Kathryn & Welch, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library

ILLiad and Discovery Services

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses ILLiad and discovery services.
Date: April 15, 2015
Creator: Johnston, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Power of Images + Text as Survey Responses

This presentation discusses how the authors created a survey and incorporated feedback through submitted images regarding a graduate student space in the library.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Barham, Rebecca & Hallman, Caroline
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections

This presentation contains a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library

Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit

This presentation provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): What is it and what causes it?

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Coming Home. The author has a grant from the National Institute of Health (NIH) and the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) on innovative approaches to understanding and treating PTSD. In this presentation, the author discusses PTSD and other responses to trauma and stress.
Date: November 15, 2012
Creator: Boals, Adriel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral Histories in The Portal to Texas History

This presentation focused on the background and workflows of adding oral histories to The Portal to Texas History. It was presented as part of the Oral History Forum Webinar Series.
Date: February 15, 2023
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Google: Promoting Digitized Primary Sources in First-Year Writing

This presentation discusses promoting digitized primary sources in research. Topics include the background and interest in the subject, key term definitions, examples of items and usage, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) K-12 teaching resources, and FYC application.
Date: March 15, 2013
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitization in Three Strokes: Digital Commonwealth, Minnesota Digital Library, and The Portal to Texas History

This presentation is part of the panel "Digitization in Three Strokes: Digital Commonwealth, Minnesota Digital Library, and The Portal to Texas History," from DPLAfest 2016. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History project through the Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program.
Date: April 15, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Mangum, Jake
System: The UNT Digital Library

Rolling Your Own Digital Library System

This presentation discusses the topic of building your own digital library system. It explains why the University of North Texas built their own system and some of the initial challenges and the advantages associated with the process.
Date: April 15, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity

UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity. Ultimately choosing to adapt the Points Process System developed by the University of Northwestern.
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Library Federation 2019 Capacity Presentation Script

Script notes for the presentation "Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity" at the 2019 Digital Library Federation Forum. UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity.
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
System: The UNT Digital Library

Born Digital Newspaper Collections

Presentation for the 2017 Dodging the Memory Hole Conference. This presentation provides an overview of the ingest of Texas Press Association PDFs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program at UNT Libraries.
Date: November 15, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Instructional Videos as Tools for Student Learning: Purpose and Practice

Presentation on the creation and use of instructional videos in the UNT Libraries. This poster presentation describes their video production process, how these videos have supported student learning, and an example of an instructional video we created. Instructional videos are one major online resource that the University of North Texas Libraries provides to students. Librarians create a variety of online videos on topics that supplement course materials and instruction sessions. It was presented at the 2021 Texas Library Association (TLA) Library Instruction Round Table Annual Summit which was held virtually on October 15, 2021.
Date: October 15, 2021
Creator: Volpe, Amelia & Roy, Meranda M.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Growing Your Custom Holdings

This presentation is part of the panel "The Care and Feeding of Custom Holdings" from the 2017 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference and shares concrete instructions, best practices, and innovations in the configuration and maintenance of custom holdings groups and paths used within multiple OCLC ILL interfaces at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Johnston, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries Digital Infrastructure: Behind the Scenes

Presentation for the 2015 ARMA Annual Conference. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital infrastructure.
Date: September 15, 2015
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library