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Collaborating to Promote Cultural Identity in Public Libraries through the Portal to Texas History

This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History serves as a digital preservation infrastructure and as a community identity preservation vehicle.
Date: June 24, 2017
Creator: Mangum, Jake & Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Letting the collections tell their story: Using Tableau for collection evaluation

This presentation contains the workshop presented at the 2016 Library and Information Technology Association Forum pre-conference session. This workshop presentation includes an introduction to the Tableau Public software, data management, and developing dashboards.
Date: November 17, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen; Klein, Janette & Parwani, Priya B.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Climbing the summit together: preservation of born-digital goverment information

Presentation for the Fall 2016 Depository Library Conference. This presentation summarizes the Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit and discusses on-going digital preservation efforts.
Date: October 17, 2016
Creator: Jacobs, James R.; Sittel, Robbie & Walls, David
System: The UNT Digital Library

After the Mandates & Manifestos, What Next? The Denton Declaration at 5

Presentation for the 2017 UNT Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides background on the Denton Declaration, an open data manifesto created in 2012, before introducing panelists for a discussion on the future of open data and open access.
Date: May 19, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library

3D Printing Book History: Extending bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing

Presented at the 2017 Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference. This seminar focuses on work extending bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing
Date: June 21, 2017
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.; McIntosh, Marcia & O'Sullivan, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tracking Down the Problem: the development of a web-scale discovery troubleshooting workflow

Presentation for the 2017 North American Serials Interest Group. This presentation discusses the implementation of an error reporting link within the Summon web-scale discovery service, and the resultant troubleshooting workflows, types of errors encountered, and causes of frequently encountered errors.
Date: June 11, 2017
Creator: Enoch, Todd
System: The UNT Digital Library

Growing Your Custom Holdings

This presentation is part of the panel "The Care and Feeding of Custom Holdings" from the 2017 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference and shares concrete instructions, best practices, and innovations in the configuration and maintenance of custom holdings groups and paths used within multiple OCLC ILL interfaces at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Johnston, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data Readiness and the Digital Public Library of America

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, resources for preparing data, and the experiences of the Houston Public Library.
Date: April 2018
Creator: Hiott, Judith; Park, Kristi L.; Tarver, Hannah & Duran, Albert
System: The UNT Digital Library

The impact of library instruction on undergraduate student success: A four-year study

Presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This presentation reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Hargis, Carol; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library

Our Users, Our Selves: Evaluating user experience on The Portal to Texas History

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the development and results of a usability study to understand how users navigate The Portal to Texas History.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Mangum, Jake
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Digital Primary Resources in Instruction: Developing Digital Scholarship with Undergraduate Researchers

Presentation for the 2019 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the use of digital primary resources for undergraduate instruction.
Date: April 16, 2019
Creator: Stayton, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cataloging for Makerspaces

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference for the Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. This presentation covers descriptive cataloging, subject headings and genre terms for makerspace materials. The presentation refers to two supplemental documents: "Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials" and "LCSH for Makerspace Activities".
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library

Impediments, Partners, and Proposals: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals

Presentation for the 2018 Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students Conference. This presentation shares the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ experience of creating and refashioning workshops to prepare graduate students to write their dissertation or thesis proposals.
Date: March 23, 2018
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tableau: Interactive Data Visualizations For Your Library

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This panel presentation provides experiences with Tableau and other visualizations for library assessment purposes.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Raborn, Karen; Szentkalyi, Zoltan & Scalf, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library

Trials & Tribulations: Effective Management of Electronic Resource Trials

Presentation for the 2019 Electronic Resources and Libraries conference. This presentation discusses best practices, the results of a survey of librarians on how trials are currently utilized, and responses from vendors about how trials are viewed
Date: March 5, 2019
Creator: Crawford, Laurel & Wind, Allyson
System: The UNT Digital Library

Serenity Now! Overcoming the Fear of Negative Evaluation

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Women in Higher Education Annual Conference. This presentation discusses fear of negative evaluation (FNE), including perceptions of FNE and ways to overcome it.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Brannon, Sian; Crawford, Laurel & Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tips and Tricks for Using Create Lists in Sierra

Presentation on using the Create List function in Sierra, a library service platform. It covers the basics of how to use create lists, some best practices, as well as some slightly more advanced uses like Import records, JSON queries, and using Regular Expressions in the search info. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
System: The UNT Digital Library

Automating Monthly Clean Up: No longer a babysitter

Presentation on automating the clean up of catalog records in Sierra using SQL queries and Python scripts. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
System: The UNT Digital Library

EDI in Organizations: A Libraries' Perspective

Presentation from librarians at the UNT Libraries share some of the EDI initiatives taking place in the UNT Libraries stemming from a multi-level climate survey, how the libraries as a whole is trying to be a better ally, and how we can help other departments with their EDI initiatives. It was presented at the 2022 UNT Equity & Diversity Conference held on March 23, 2022.
Date: March 23, 2022
Creator: Condrey, Coby; Dooley, Yvonne; Wolf, Stacey & Yanowski, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

It Starts at the Top: Developing a Motivational Leadership Style That Moves Mountains

This presentation describes a variety of successful changes within the University of North Texas Libraries' Access Services such as re-organizing the structure of the department, establishing new services, and accomplishing projects. Stages of change from idea to implementation and the facilitation of communication throughout the process will be discussed.
Date: November 17, 2016
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh & Venner, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: The Time Machine to Find Your Ancestors

Presentation for the East Texas Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of how The Portal to Texas History can be used for genealogical research.
Date: October 14, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

"How do I know if it's useful if I can't even get it to open?" Assessing Information Interaction at the University of North Texas to Improve Library Collections and Services

This presentation discusses the methodology and preliminary results of two usability studies – one on online video, and one on ebooks.
Date: April 4, 2017
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Smith, Susan; Wang, Xin; Rodriguez, Allyson & Billings, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integrated Collection Development for the 21st Century

This presentation discusses the adoption of a new collection development method implemented by University of North Texas Libraries to better respond to emerging acquisitions models, unstable budgets, and the evolving scholarly communications landscape.
Date: April 4, 2017
Creator: Crawford, Laurel; Condrey, Coby; Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Enoch, Todd
System: The UNT Digital Library

Research Data Management and the Data Lifecycle

Presentation for the Fall 2017 Scholarly Communication Workshop series. This presentation discusses data, data management plans, and best practices for organizing and disseminating data.
Date: October 5, 2017
Creator: Burns, Douglas & Andrews, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library