The Importance of the Cover Letter: Why a Resume is not Enough

This presentation discusses the importance of including a well-written cover letter with a resume. The author points out why a resume is not enough when applying for a job and offers guidelines for how to successfully write a cover letter.
Date: April 2011
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

JSTOR: Preservation, Storage, Access

This presentation discusses JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive. The author discusses the JSTOR mission of preservation, storage, and access.
Date: April 11, 2007
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Library Education via Distance Learning: Implications for the Profession

Presentation for the Texas Library Association (TLA) annual conference. The author discusses library education via distance learning and the implications for the profession.
Date: April 17, 2010
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

TALL Texans 2013 Workplace Leadership Development Project

Presentation for the Texas Library Association Annual Conference on TALL Texans 2013 and the workplace leadership development project.
Date: April 9, 2014
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Peek in the Portal: The University of North Texas The Portal to Texas History

This presentation provides a brief look into the digital collections added to The University of North Texas’ The Portal to Texas History in the last year. Examples include projects completed through our Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant program for 2014, The Barbara Jordan Archives Collection, and the Texas Historical Commission’s Historic Building Negatives Collection among others.
Date: April 14, 2016
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia
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

Digitization Project Rubric

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses a Project Completion Rubric developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to provide realistic estimates for digitization projects.
Date: April 28, 2015
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Rankins, Derek L.
System: The UNT Digital Library

OER: Open Educational Resources

Presentation for the Tarrant County College Northwest Campus discussing copyright, open educational resources, and creative commons licensing.
Date: April 29, 2015
Creator: McKinnon, Laura F.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Copyright and Creative Commons (CC) Licenses

Presentation for the 2015 Southwestern Association of Law Libraries (SWALL) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses copyright and creative commons (CC) licenses.
Date: April 11, 2015
Creator: McKinnon, Laura F. & Waugh, Laura
System: The UNT Digital Library

The E-Quality Service Model: Collaboration between the Reference and Circulation departments as a means to improve the library experience for distance education patrons in an academic library

This presentation discusses collaboration between the reference and circulation departments as a means to improve the library experience for distance education patrons in an academic library. The two authors give perspectives from the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: April 16, 2008
Creator: Ramin, Lilly & Leuzinger, Julie
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

Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program

This presentation discusses assessment methods for UNT Libraries' professional development program.
Date: April 22, 2016
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; O'Toole, Erin & Harker, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Transforming an Academic Library from a Traditional Service Model to a Community Partner

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses transforming an academic library from a traditional service model to a community partner.
Date: April 16, 2015
Creator: Sears, Suzanne; Leuzinger, Julie; Rowe, Jennifer; Sittel, Robbie & Burns, Douglas
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chronicles in Preservation: Curation Practices for Born-Digital and Digitized Newspaper Collections

This presentation discusses the Chronicles in Preservation project. This project aims to study, document, and model the use of data preparation practices and distributed digital preservation frameworks to collaboratively preserve digitized and born-digital newspaper collections. This presentation gives the background of the Chronicles in Preservation project, the State of the Field report, and early findings.
Date: April 3, 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Walters, Tyler
System: The UNT Digital Library

Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video: A Webcast

This presentation was given for 'Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video: A Webcast, sponsored by Alexander Street Press and Library Journal. In this presentation, the author discusses when and how video is used in instruction with examples and ideas for increasing faculties' usage of streaming videos.
Date: April 26, 2012
Creator: Stanton, Kimberly
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

Quality Customer Service on a Budget

Presentation on offering quality customer service on a budget. The author explains how the UNT Libraries improved workflows and services offered while cutting expenditures.
Date: April 24, 2013
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library

Merging Departments, Service Desks and Staff: Managing Change While Improving Customer Service and Staff Morale

Presentation for the 2014 Oklahoma Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses merging departments, service desks and staff and managing change while improving customer service and staff morale.
Date: April 2, 2014
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann & Johnston, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Measuring Value and Impact: A Study of the UNT Digital Library Collections

Presentation for the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) discussing value and impact and a study of the UNT Digital Library collections.
Date: April 28, 2014
Creator: Waugh, Laura
System: The UNT Digital Library

Piloting a Peer-Review Process for Trusted Digital Repositories

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses a collaborative peer-review process for the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC).
Date: April 28, 2015
Creator: Waugh, Laura
System: The UNT Digital Library