Allied Program Areas and Specializations within LIS: UNT Experience

This presentation was presented as part of a panel on "The Benefits and Challenges of Allied Programs and Specializations in LIS Units" as part of the opening plenary panel at the 2018 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) Conference. This presentation discusses the rewards and challenges of Library and Information Science (LIS) programs, with a detailed overview of LIS programs offered at the University of North Texas.
Date: February 7, 2018
Creator: Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Analytics Edge: Use of Analytics in University Libraries (open access)

The Analytics Edge: Use of Analytics in University Libraries

This paper explores how libraries use data analytics for decision-making on various aspects of day-to-day library operations
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Roy Aalia, Prodip Kumer; Mercieca, Paul & Sarkar, Pradip K.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Attitudes of Scholars Towards Open Access (OA) Repositories

This poster presents data on faculty members' awareness of open access publishing, based on faculty age, college, rank, and status.
Date: February 6, 2018
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Challenges Of Implementing  A Data Driven Framework in K-12 Education (open access)

The Challenges Of Implementing A Data Driven Framework in K-12 Education

Poster paper for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This paper examines the challenges of data managements and use in K-12 education through the technical, knowledge, application, climate and cultural aspects.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Jim, Cary K. & Schultz-Jones, Barbara
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Challenges Of Implementing A Data Driven Framework in K-12 Education

Poster for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This poster examines the challenges of data managements and use in K-12 education through the technical, knowledge, application, climate and cultural aspects.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Jim, Cary K.; Schultz-Jones, Barbara & Ledbetter, Cynthia
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Discovering fake news embedded in the opposing hashtag activism networks on Twitter: #Gunreformnow vs. #NRA (open access)

Discovering fake news embedded in the opposing hashtag activism networks on Twitter: #Gunreformnow vs. #NRA

This article is a study investigating fake news included in political discourse of opposing activism hashtags, #Gunreformnow and #NRA (The National Rifle Association) and aims to lay out the process of identifying fake news in the hashtag activism network on Twitter.
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Chong, Miyoung
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Editing of Library Metadata Records and its Effect on Subject Access: An Empirical Investigation (open access)

Editing of Library Metadata Records and its Effect on Subject Access: An Empirical Investigation

This paper was presented at the 2016 IFLA World Library and Information Congress Satellite Meeting on Subject Access: Unlimited Opportunities. This paper reports on the change in a sample of MARC 21 library metadata records over a period of two years.
Date: November 14, 2017
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Shakeri, Shadi & Kizhakkethil, Priya
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evaluation of Metadata Change in Authority Data Over Time: An Effect of a Standard Evolution (open access)

Evaluation of Metadata Change in Authority Data Over Time: An Effect of a Standard Evolution

This article presents some results of the content analysis study that explores the authority data change over time in response to change in standards. Authority data describes persons, institutions, places, events, and works, as well as relations between them. This study contributes to the understanding of metadata change and its relation to functionality of authority records and improved information access.
Date: February 1, 2019
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Zavalin, Vyacheslav
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization (open access)

Evolutionary Path of Factors Influencing Life Satisfaction among Chinese Elderly: A Perspective of Data Visualization

This article investigates how the influence and importance of factors associated with life satisfaction in the elderly have changed during these years.
Date: September 11, 2018
Creator: Zhang, Hui; Wang, Yongyi; Wu, Dan & Chen, Jiangping
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Examining the Integration Engineering and the Mergers and Acquisitions Processes Through the Evaluation of Intangible Assets in Knoweldge Management in Organizations: A Brazilian Case

Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation examines how to measure intellectual capital as intangible assets in companies applying the Mergers and Acquisitions process.
Date: November 10, 2018
Creator: de Sa Freire, Patricia & Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives

Presentation based on the preliminary results of research into information organization in language archives. This looks at the background of language data and archives, their research questions, archives that were analyzed, their findings, and next steps.
Date: October 21, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives (open access)

Exploration of Information Organization in Language Archives

This article reports preliminary results of the first stage of a research project that seeks to identify the information organization methods and techniques currently offered in the language data archives and the gaps between the tools and techniques available and the needs of actual and potential users of language data archives.
Date: October 18, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries (open access)

Exploring the richness of collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries

This article reports results of a study that used an in-depth comparative content analysis to assess free-text and controlled vocabulary collection-level subject metadata in three large-scale digital libraries in the European Union and the USA.
Date: December 31, 2014
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Factors Affecting Faculty Attitudes Towards Open Access Institutional Repositories (OA IR): UNT Case Study

This presentation discusses factors affecting faculty attitudes toward open access institutional repositories uses results from a survey of University of North Texas faculty.
Date: April 13, 2017
Creator: Tmava, Ahmet Meti
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fostering Scholarly Creativity: Modeling Functional Browsing through the Lens of Complexity (open access)

Fostering Scholarly Creativity: Modeling Functional Browsing through the Lens of Complexity

This paper models scholarly browsing.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Behpour, Sahar; O'Connor, Brian Clark; Goudarzi, Abbas & Hawamdeh, Suliman M.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training (open access)

Framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications in vocational education and training

This article introduces and evaluates a framework for designing motivational augmented reality applications.
Date: June 21, 2019
Creator: Bacca, Jorge; Baldiris, Silvia; Fabregat, Ramon & Kinshuk
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit (open access)

Gender Differences in 7th Grade Students' Interest in STEM after Participating in a Solenoid Instructional Unit

Paper presented at the 2019 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition. The research presented studies achievement scores and affinity towards STEM scores of male and female students after participating in a unit focused on understanding a solenoid.
Date: 2019-06-15/2019-06-19
Creator: Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.; Smith, Daniella & Johnson, Karen R.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Grounded Theory of Information Quality for Web Archives

Presentation for the dissertation defense of Brenda Reyes Ayala. This presentation builds a theory of information quality for web archives that is grounded in human-centered data.
Date: May 18, 2018
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Harnessing Knowledge Management Sharing (Kms) in the Era of Cloud Computing: A New Horizon for Organizations and the Analysis of Some Case Studies (open access)

Harnessing Knowledge Management Sharing (Kms) in the Era of Cloud Computing: A New Horizon for Organizations and the Analysis of Some Case Studies

This paper investigates knowledge management sharing in organizations in an era of cloud computing solutions.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Harnessing Knowledge Management Sharing (Kms) in the Era of Cloud Computing (CC): A New Horizon for Organizations and the Analysis of Some Case Studies

Presentation for the 2018 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation investigates knowledge management sharing in organizations in an era of cloud computing solutions.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Merlo, Tereza Raquel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Identity Management Analysis: An Empirical Investigation into the State of Library Community's Authority Data Conformance to the New Standard

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation presents some results of a content analysis study that explores the state of implementation of the Resource Description and Access (RDA) standard in authority records.
Date: October 25, 2017
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana & Zavalin, Vyacheslav
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immersion Librarianship: An assessment of transforming LIS students' professional worldview through a service learning project at an international school library (open access)

Immersion Librarianship: An assessment of transforming LIS students' professional worldview through a service learning project at an international school library

This paper was presented at the 2017 IFLA World Library and Information Congress. This paper contains a summary of the study to discern what students learned from a library and information science service learning study abroad program to Russia in 2012.
Date: June 21, 2017
Creator: Walczyk, Christine & Schultz-Jones, Barbara
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Overload & Its Effect on High School Students (open access)

Information Overload & Its Effect on High School Students

This paper studies how high school students experience information overload, as well as their specific physical, emotional, and mental reactions.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Zimmerman, Tara
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Information-Seeking Behavior of Speakers of Endangered Languages: An Anthropological Approach

Poster exploring the approach to understand information behavior of communities speaking endangered languages.
Date: May 22, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library