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Digitization Basics for Museums

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and illustrates what types of items are in the collection and the resources available to museums, educators, and partners. It also discusses the future goals of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: April 5, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Exploring the Texas Revolution Online through The Portal to Texas History

This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution.
Date: April 19, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making it Work, Making it Fun: Metadata in Action

This presentation discusses metadata and how to ensure quality. It illustrates how the University of North Texas (UNT) utilizes a metadata analysis tool and a metadata template creator.
Date: June 1, 2007
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2009 (open access)

Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2009

This document is a brief organizational history for The Portal to Texas History for 2009. This document was used for grant submissions to state or federal funding agencies, or private foundations. This document reflects on strategic directions for the program, as well as the number of collaborative partners for the Portal, and the number of historic documents in the digital library.
Date: 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Research, Rummage, and Reconnoiter: Online Exploration at The Portal to Texas History

This presentation discusses what The Portal to Texas History is and the benefits that it provides to the community and to educators. It also illustrates how to use The Portal to Texas History, shows examples of the collections, and discusses future goals.
Date: March 8, 2007
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching With The Portal to Texas History

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how the collections and resources for educators are used to enhance learning and as teaching aids.
Date: October 13, 2006
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries

This presentation gives an update on the digital collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in their Digital Collection and The Portal to Texas History in 2008.
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)

This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2009 and the future projects planned.
Date: February 13, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment: We know we should do it but does it have to be so difficult? (open access)

Assessment: We know we should do it but does it have to be so difficult?

This paper discusses assessment in library instruction programs.
Date: August 2008
Creator: Byerly, Gayla & Downey, Annie
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Footholds and Foundations: Setting Freshman on the Path to Lifelong Learning

This presentation discusses an assessment in which the researchers collaborated with a software developer to create an online survey form for college freshman. This assessment was conducted to determine what skills college freshman have in relation to the libraries and research.
Date: 2006
Creator: Byerly, Gayla; Downey, Annie & Gosnell, Frank
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions (open access)

Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions

Article discussing the effectiveness of a community health worker as sole diabetes educator.
Date: November 4, 2008
Creator: Culica, Dan; Walton, James W.; Harker, Karen & Prezio, Elizabeth A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching Information Literacy: A Performance Based Cycle

This presentation discusses teaching information literacy and a project to assess student searching skills. It includes background information on the project, discusses the performance cycle of information literacy, active teaching, learning, and assessing, student navigation skills, and software and strategies.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Downey, Annie & Byerly, Gayla
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enemies of History: Murderers of the Past

This presentation is about a workshop for high school students. The workshop focused on preservation and how it relates to the study of history.
Date: April 16, 2008
Creator: Downey, Annie; May, Frances A.; Mears, Michelle M. & Smith, Jon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Simple Ways to Add Active Learning to Your Library Instruction (open access)

Simple Ways to Add Active Learning to Your Library Instruction

This paper discusses library instruction. Assessments are recommended to determine the effectiveness of student learning. This paper also discusses a project by the UNT Libraries' in which they developed software to assess library instruction, called Library Instruction Software for Assessment (LISA) and the outcome of that study.
Date: 2008
Creator: Downey, Annie; Ramin, Lilly & Byerly, Gayla
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection Plan for the CyberCemetery (open access)

Collection Plan for the CyberCemetery

This report discusses the collection plan for the CyberCemetery, part of the Web-at-Risk project. The topics include the mission and scope, the selection, acquisition, descriptive metadata, presentation and access, maintenance and weeding, and preservation.
Date: August 21, 2006
Creator: Glenn, Valerie & Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative (open access)

Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative

This article offers a comparison of strategies and policies for building distributed digital preservation infrastructure.
Date: October 15, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Findings from the MetaScholar Projects: AmericanSouth and MetaArchive (open access)

Findings from the MetaScholar Projects: AmericanSouth and MetaArchive

Article summarizing major findings of the MetaArchive and AmericanSouth projects, two of the seven projects of the 2001 Mellon Metadata Harvesting Initiative.
Date: October 24, 2003
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings 2005 (open access)

Free Culture and the Digital Library Symposium Proceedings 2005

This book of proceedings includes seventeen papers from a symposium held at Emory University. The symposium papers discuss subjects relating to free culture in digital libraries.
Date: October 14, 2005
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Finegan, Carrie & Skinner, Katherine
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

Paper contributed to the 2009 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing ETD collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Councilor's Report: 2006 Annual Conference - New Orleans (open access)

Councilor's Report: 2006 Annual Conference - New Orleans

This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in 2006, which took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Information about the topics discussed and issues that were brought up are included.
Date: 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Councilor's Report: 2006 Midwinter Meeting - San Antonio (open access)

Councilor's Report: 2006 Midwinter Meeting - San Antonio

This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter meeting in 2006, which was held in San Antonio. The discussions include an increase in dues and several resolutions.
Date: 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, December 2008 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, December 2008

This report is the second interim performance report for the project titled: Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework. The reporting period is July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. The report includes three sections: Interim Goals and Accomplishments, Significant Findings and Accomplishments, and Project Achievements and Lessons Learned.
Date: December 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, July 2008 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, July 2008

This report is the first interim performance report for the project titled: Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework. The reporting period is December 1, 2007 through June 30, 2008. The report includes three sections: Interim Goals and Accomplishments, Significant Findings and Accomplishments, and Project Achievements and Lessons Learned.
Date: July 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library