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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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Information Literacy and YouTube: A Winning Combination for Users and Librarians

This presentation discusses information literacy and YouTube. The authors describe how they integrate YouTube videos into their basic information literacy instruction sessions.
Date: March 31, 2011
Creator: May, Frances A.; Byerly, Gayla & Tharp, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals (open access)

Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals

Article discussing the proportion of qualitative research over a 10 year period and correlates associated with its publication.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Harker, Karen; Roudsari, Bahman; Groce, Nora Ellen, 1952-; Mills, Britain A.; Siddiqi, Zoveen et al.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Learning from Our Users: Using Assessment to Drive Change

This poster discusses using assessments and user feedback in the libraries. The poster illustrates a comparison between LibQUAL+ surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic study results for online students.
Date: June 26, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane & Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

LibQUAL+ Lite at UNT

This poster discusses the LibQUAL+ Lite survey. It summarizes results and implications relating to survey participation and survey results given at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: June 26, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination

This presentation discusses marketing and promoting a library's government documents department. The author explains the marketing strategy as consisting of the Four P's: using Passionate Pro-active Promotions and Presentations to make your documents department a destination for answers. The author offers specific examples of promotional events and items, collaboration with other organizations and libraries, and specific ways that the University of North Texas (UNT) has marketed the benefits of its government documents.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination (open access)

Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination

Article on marketing your library collection to your community and becoming a destination for information.
Date: December 6, 2011
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library (open access)

Mentoring Graduate Assistants in the Academic Library

Book chapter discussing mentoring graduate assistants in the academic library.
Date: 2011
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Motivating Student Employees

Presentation for the Student Assistant Supervisors Workgroup on motivating student employees. The author discusses training and orientation, following up, communication, recognition and rewards, the work environment and helpful resources.
Date: 2011
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

National Status of Data Management: The DataRes and CLIR/Sloan Research Projects on Data Management Policies and Practices

Presentation discussing the DataRes and the CLIR/Sloan Research Projects on data management policies and practices. This presentation discusses these two collaborating projects researching emerging policies and practices in data management. These research projects are being undertaken by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: November 1, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Networking and Getting Involved Professionally

This presentation discusses networking and career development. It includes information about becoming involved in professional organizations, attending conferences, creating business cards, and staying in contact with others in the profession.
Date: June 9, 2011
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

No Child Left Behind

This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on No Child Left Behind. This series features Dr. Jeanne Turks, associate professor for teacher education and administration, Dr. D. Jack Davis, professor emeritus of art education and art history, and Dr. Troy Johnson, UNT's vice provost for enrollment.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Mondragon-Becker, Antonio
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occupation and authorship in The Indexer, 2000-09 (open access)

Occupation and authorship in The Indexer, 2000-09

Article on the occupations and authorship in The Indexer from 2000 through 2009.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Letter to the UNT Community: 2011 Library Budget Status and Impacts - September 27, 2011 (open access)

Open Letter to the UNT Community: 2011 Library Budget Status and Impacts - September 27, 2011

Letter to the University of North Texas (UNT) community from the Dean of the UNT Libraries, Dr. Martin Halbert. This letter discusses the 2011 library budget status and impacts.
Date: September 27, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Letter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Organization of Long-Term Interstellar Distributed Digital Preservation Networks

This presentation discusses the organization of long-term interstellar distributed digital preservation networks. Long term (centuries) management of large growing public bodies of information is both more and less understood. This presentation discusses what we can learn from current efforts to develop long term strategies for digital preservation.
Date: October 1, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational Alignment (open access)

Organizational Alignment

This paper discusses organizational alignment and digital preservation.
Date: May 23, 2011
Creator: Angevaare, Inge; Gallinger, Michelle; Anderson, Martha; Giaretta, David & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Paper
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Selecting and Assessing Practicum Students

This presentation discusses selecting and assessing practicum students, the goals and competencies, learning objectives, and gives examples of necessary skills.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Study Blue

This presentation is part of the Eagle Commons Library CLC Workshop Series. It introduces Study Blue, an online study tool system. This article outlines what Study Blue can do, its features, and offers examples for how to navigate and best utilize the system.
Date: 2011
Creator: Jenkins, John
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Symposium on Well-Being

This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out, the Symposium on Well-Being. This series features Dr. Celia Williamson, associate professor of rehabilitation, social work and addictions, and Dr. Mark Vosvick, associate professor of psychology and director of the psychology departments' Center for Psychosocial Health Research.
Date: March 24, 2011
Creator: Mondragon-Becker, Antonio
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

This Side of the Border: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of American Photographer Otis A. Aultman

This presentation discusses the Mexican Revolution, as seen through the camera lens of American photographer Otis A. Aultman. In 2009, El Paso Public Library's Archivist Marta Estrada received a grant from the UNT Libraries to digitize a portion of their Otis Aultman Photograph Collection and add it to The Portal to Texas History. El Paso Public Library's collection on the Portal consists of more than 500 digitized glass plate negative photographs that documents the Mexican Revolution through the eyes of Mr. Aultman, many of which have not been seen for a century.
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Carlisle, Tara
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Unauthorized Immigration

This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Unauthorized Immigration. This series features Dr. Valerie Martinez-Ebers, professor of political science, Dr. David Molina, professor of economics and interim director of UNT's Immigrant Research and Policy Center, Dr. Mariela Nuñez-Janes, professor of anthropology, Shaun Chapa, a graduate student in the anthropology department.
Date: April 2011
Creator: Mondragon-Becker, Antonio
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
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Unauthorized Immigration

This video recording is of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Unauthorized Immigration. This series features Dr. Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Dr. David Molina, Dr. Mariela Nuñez-Janes, and Shaun Chapa. Dr. Martinez-Ebers, professor of political science, will provide a demographic profile of the U.S. immigrant population and introduce the various policy options that have been discussed in Congress. Dr. Molina, professor of economics and interim director of UNT's Immigrant Research and Policy Center, will focus on policy and economic impacts of labor. Dr. Nuñez-Janes, professor of anthropology, and Shaun Chapa, graduate student, will discuss undocumented students as a case study. They focus on issues of policy and practices, drawing on the students' experiences to raise questions about cultural citizenship, assimilation as the proxy for legal rights, new forms of racism and educational equity.
Date: April 13, 2011
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries.
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library

University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Cooperative

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Scholarship Cooperative. This presentation describes what led to the UNT Digital Scholarship (DS) endeavor and campus planning effort, the aims and different scenarios studied, and the next steps planned.
Date: December 13, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library