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2008 DOT GOV Harvest Preserving Access

Presentation for the 2008 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Date: October 21, 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Architecture of a Centralized Portal to Distributed Information: The Portal to Texas History (open access)

Architecture of a Centralized Portal to Distributed Information: The Portal to Texas History

This handout discusses the development of the architecture to build The Portal to Texas History through the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: 2004
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archiving Web-published Materials (open access)

Archiving Web-published Materials

Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2007 Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference on the Web-at-Risk project and the Web Archiving Service (WAS).
Date: April 13, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers (open access)

Archiving Web-Published Materials: A Needs Assessment of Librarians, Researchers, and Content Providers

Article discussing archiving web-published materials and a needs assessment of librarians, researchers, and content providers.
Date: 2008
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment Path Final Report (open access)

Assessment Path Final Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report describes the major assessment activities, their contributions to the project, and key findings. The assessment work areas included needs assessment, collection planning, and WAS evaluation.
Date: December 27, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
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

At Risk: Capturing and Preserving Web Resources

This presentation discusses the Web-at-Risk project and the issues related to capturing and preserving web resources. It introduces collection development issues, organization and metadata issues, and the findings that support the needs for a web archiving service.
Date: June 12, 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
At The Portal to Texas History captions transcript

At The Portal to Texas History

This video presents The Portal to Texas History collection in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. It shows images from the collections including photographs, maps, newspapers, text documents, and objects.
Date: May 2007
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Video
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

Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?

This presentation discusses the costs and values of digital collections. It looks at the digital collections held at the University of North Texas (UNT) and does a cost comparison of the options based on their choices including the expenses that are related to building their digital collections.
Date: July 10, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Building Digital Archives

This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Circulation Myth Busters!

This presentation discusses circulation in the libraries and what the policies, processes, services, and resources are for the UNT Libraries circulation department.
Date: December 3, 2007
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Your Local Public Library (open access)

Collaborating with Your Local Public Library

This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hoffman, Starr; Downey, Annie & Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaboration in Practice: Megadata Happens

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: June 6, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials (open access)

Collaborations, Best Practices, and Collection Development for Born-Digital and Digitized Materials

This paper discusses collaborations, best practices, and collection development for the preservation of born-digital and digitized materials.
Date: 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborations: How Ussachevsky Interacted with Other Composers in the Creation of Electronic Music

Presentation for the 2008 Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses collaborations and how Vladimir Ussachevsky interacted with other composers in the creation of electronic music.
Date: April 3, 2008
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collecting and Disseminating New Music: Originally Presented as "The Impact of Women in Music, New Composers Forum" (open access)

Collecting and Disseminating New Music: Originally Presented as "The Impact of Women in Music, New Composers Forum"

Paper contributed to the 2002 Bar Harbor Music Festival. This paper discusses collecting and disseminating new music and the impact of women in music.
Date: July 18, 2002
Creator: Hartsock, Ralph
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
Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators (open access)

Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. These policy and planning documents typically guide collection management within libraries and archives. Some familiar concepts and practices from collection development for non-digital materials easily transfer to collection development for web-based materials while some new concepts and unfamiliar practices are introduced. To effectively manage web collections, it is good practice to either create new policies and plans or modify existing collection policies and plans.
Date: May 9, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection Planning Guidelines (open access)

Collection Planning Guidelines

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is developing a Web Archiving Service (WAS) that will enable the project's partner institutions to act as archive agencies that will assist the project's curators in building and managing archived collections of web-published materials.
Date: May 31, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
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
Connecting Constituents to Government Information: 150 Years of Congressionally Designated Libraries (open access)

Connecting Constituents to Government Information: 150 Years of Congressionally Designated Libraries

Article on connecting constituents to government information and 150 years of congressionally designated libraries.
Date: 2008
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content Producer Interview Questionnaire (open access)

Content Producer Interview Questionnaire

This document is an interview, questionnaire for the Web-at-Risk project. The purpose of this interview is to explore the issues information publishers or content producers have regarding web archives. The purpose of this discussion is to elicit the needs and thoughts of the users regarding web archives of materials created by a third party, such as a universal library.
Date: May 31, 2005
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content Provider Interviews: Summary Report (open access)

Content Provider Interviews: Summary Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report summarizes the results of the interviews with content providers. Section 2 identifies the interview methodology. Section 3 describes the results and Section 4 discusses the major findings.
Date: April 10, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library