News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action (open access)

News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action

This paper discusses how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. It delves into some of the reasons why this convent is not yet preserved, and examines the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type.
Date: June 7, 2016
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine; Wilson, Marc & Zarndt, Frederick
System: The UNT Digital Library
X Marks the Spot: Creating and Managing a Single Service Point to Improve Customer Service and Maximize Resources (open access)

X Marks the Spot: Creating and Managing a Single Service Point to Improve Customer Service and Maximize Resources

This article describes how merging service points in an academic library is an opportunity to improve customer service and utilize staffing resources more efficiently.
Date: June 8, 2016
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann & Keshmiripour, Setareh
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Target: An Experiment in Benchmarking (open access)

Finding the Target: An Experiment in Benchmarking

This article discusses a new method of evaluating purchasing decisions at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Enoch, Todd & Henley, Mark
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aquiline Books at UNT: A Progress Report (open access)

Aquiline Books at UNT: A Progress Report

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In June 2015, the UNT Libraries launched a for-fee service for publishing works of scholarship from authors affiliated with the university. While authors can choose from a menu of editing and design options, all publications are made free to read online through the institutional repository. In this presentation, we reflect on our choices in designing the publishing service—such as not organizing peer review, delivering publications through the repository, requiring free public access but not Creative Commons licenses—and on what authors have chosen from the menu of options over the past two years.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Print REALLY Dead? Exploring the Relationship between the Technology Acceptance Model and Use of E-books at a Large Research University (open access)

Is Print REALLY Dead? Exploring the Relationship between the Technology Acceptance Model and Use of E-books at a Large Research University

Poster presented at the 2017 ALA Annual Conference. This poster summarizes the application of the technology acceptance model to the use of e-books at a large research university.
Date: June 24, 2017
Creator: Smith, Susan; Rodriguez, Allyson; Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Xu, Lu & Billings, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Library as an Essential Service (open access)

The Library as an Essential Service

This article looks at the role of the UNT Libraries as an essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-at-home declaration in Denton County, Tx in the Spring of 2020.
Date: June 2020
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
System: The UNT Digital Library