Presentation for the 2012 CNI Annual Membership Meeting. This presentation provides an overview and update on the DataRes Project.

This presentation discusses research on the opportunities and challenges for the 21st century Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The authors discuss the principles of the FDLP, the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO), LOCKSS-USDOCS, and the University of North Texas (UNT) efforts toward digital FDLP.

This handout accompanies a workshop presentation about shaping user experience. The topics of the workshop include usability testing, iterative design, and digital libraries. This handout outlines the topics that will be covered with a timeline of the activities, glossary of terminology used, worksheets, and references.

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.

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.

Article discussing sexual misconduct with congregants or parishioners and crafting a model statute.

This presentation was for a panel session with librarians from school, public, academic, and the North Texas Library Partners (NTLP) at the Texas Library Association (TLA) annual conference. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaboration strategies during difficult financial periods and funding cuts.

In this presentation, the authors discuss methods for assessing the needs of distance students and for effectively gathering input, emphasizing technology that did and did not work. The authors also identify ways to evaluate what was learned and to work with librarians and faculty.

This paper discusses the needs of distance learners.

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.

This paper discusses improving access to web archives through innovative analysis of PDF content. The paper discusses the overall workflow and describes the tools used to extract document features. Findings suggest opportunities for the development of retrieval tools that will provide new ways of selecting content and building collections from large Web archives.

This paper discusses how to provide quality customer service in the face of budget cuts.

Letter to the University of North Texas (UNT) community from the Dean of the UNT Libraries, Dr. Martin Halbert. This letter discusses planning for the 2013 fiscal year library budget reductions.

Presentation on offering quality customer service on a budget. The author explains how the UNT Libraries improved workflows and services offered while cutting expenditures.

Presentation for an invited plenary session sponsored by the Texas Library Association (TLA) conference program committee at the 2013 TLA Annual Conference.

Handout accompanying a presentation for the Texas Library Association (TLA) 2014 Annual Conference at the Reference Round Table. This handout includes literature review sources representing 50 years of reference service.

Presentation for the Oklahoma Library Association on copyright and social media.

Presentation for the Oklahoma Library Association on the benefits, pitfalls, and use of Creative Commons (CC) licenses.

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.

Presentation on Web 2.0 and 3.0 and technology and legal pitfalls.

Presentation for the Texas Library Association Annual Conference on TALL Texans 2013 and the workplace leadership development project.

Presentation for the Texas Library Association Annual Conference Government Documents Round Table on using primary sources to enrich class research.

This Tech Talk presentation discusses the next generation of Creative Commons (CC) licenses and what is new in CC 4.0.

Presentation for a workshop on altmetrics and new ways of measuring research impact. The workshop shows how the behavior of scholars is changing and how these changes are being monitored to show research impact in new ways.