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A Defense of Preservation in the Age of MPLP (open access)

A Defense of Preservation in the Age of MPLP

This article looks at Mark A. Greene and Dennis Meissner's attitudes towards preservation as revealed in their articles on More Product, Less Process (MPLP), the relationship between access and preservation, and the importance of preservation within archives; it also offers strategies for efficient preservation.
Date: 2015
Creator: Phillips, Jessica
System: The UNT Digital Library
First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Reviews, Then You Get the Internet Comments: A Quantitative Examination of the Relationship Between Critics, Viewers, and Box Office Success (open access)

First You Get the Money, Then You Get the Reviews, Then You Get the Internet Comments: A Quantitative Examination of the Relationship Between Critics, Viewers, and Box Office Success

This article examines the relationships between a movie's perceived artistic merit as ranked by critics, a movie's quality as ranked by viewers, a movie's gross box office take, and its release date.
Date: April 28, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy & Raddick, M. Jordan
System: The UNT Digital Library
Yeah, I Found It!: Performing Web Site Usability Testing to Ensure that Off-Campus Students Can Find the Information They Need (open access)

Yeah, I Found It!: Performing Web Site Usability Testing to Ensure that Off-Campus Students Can Find the Information They Need

This paper discusses the results of the formal usability studies and focus groups that involved other libraries' web pages to to first determine what users appreciated or disliked about the current site. This article was co-published in The Eleventh Off-Campus Library Services Conference Proceedings.
Date: May 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
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
Enhancing Bibliographic Access to Dissertations (open access)

Enhancing Bibliographic Access to Dissertations

This article discusses a study of dissertation cataloging practices of Association of Research Libraries academic libraries to discern how the libraries provide access to subjects as well as to names of academic departments and advisors.
Date: December 12, 2016
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Providing a Complete Menu: Using Competitive Usability in a Home Page Usability Study (open access)

Providing a Complete Menu: Using Competitive Usability in a Home Page Usability Study

This article presents results from the task-based testing and focus group portion of a usability study on the University of North Texas Libraries' website in addition to three other academic library web sites to examine the effects of multiple design elements and styles on the participants' results and to provide additional insight into user preferences.
Date: December 10, 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Arranging the Pieces: A Survey of Library Practices Related to a Tabletop Game Collection (open access)

Arranging the Pieces: A Survey of Library Practices Related to a Tabletop Game Collection

This article discusses results from an online survey of 119 libraries to explore collection development, cataloguing, processing, and circulation practices for tabletop game collections in libraries.
Date: November 13, 2016
Creator: Slobuski, Teresa; Robson, Diane & Bentley, P. J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Physically Embedded Librarianship on Academic Departments (open access)

The Impact of Physically Embedded Librarianship on Academic Departments

This article discusses what happens when subject librarians move from the library services desk to spending a significant part of their workday in the academic departments they serve, and proposes a developmental model for physically embedded librarianship.
Date: July 2016
Creator: O'Toole, Erin; Barham, Rebecca & Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaboration in scholarly communication: Opportunities to normalize open access (open access)

Collaboration in scholarly communication: Opportunities to normalize open access

This article discusses scholarly communication from a holistic perspective and includes some strategies implemented at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: May 2017
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
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
Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners (open access)

Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners

This column article discusses how academic librarians can assist with increasing student retention in STEM fields.
Date: May 2017
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

A Model for Surfacing Hidden Collections: The Rescuing Texas History Mini-Grant Program at The University of North Texas Libraries

This article describes the methods and lessons learned from conducting the Rescuing Texas History mini-grant program, which serves as a model for sustainable large-scale digitization initiatives.
Date: July 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Mangum, Jacob & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
A cooperative for big data in scholarly publishing (open access)

A cooperative for big data in scholarly publishing

Presented at the 2017 Public Knowledge Project International Scholarly Publishing Conference. This lightning talk presents a vision for a cooperative of stakeholder institutions called the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.
Date: August 4, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracing Our Global Connections: A Bibliographic Analysis of UNT Digital Library Item Usage Among Global ETDs (open access)

Tracing Our Global Connections: A Bibliographic Analysis of UNT Digital Library Item Usage Among Global ETDs

Presentation at the 20th International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations. This presentation provides an overview of a bibliographic analysis of University of North Texas Digital Library items used in global electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: August 6, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
System: The UNT Digital Library
Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library (open access)

Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library

This article addresses succession planning through mentoring within the library. The authors define succession planning as the recruitment, development, and advancement of library personnel to fill staffing gaps and prepare future leaders.
Date: 2017
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
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
Providing Inclusive Services to Transgender Customers (open access)

Providing Inclusive Services to Transgender Customers

This article describes the work of the TX-Gender Project for Libraries to provide research-based resources to help Texas libraries be safe and welcoming places for transgender visitors.
Date: September 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
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
The Portal to Texas History: Building a Partnership Model for a Statewide Digital Library (open access)

The Portal to Texas History: Building a Partnership Model for a Statewide Digital Library

This chapter describes aspects of establishing the collaborations to create The Portal to Texas History, including the background of the project, marketing the initiative to potential partners, partnership roles and agreements, preservation of all digital master files, technical infrastructure to support partnership models, promoting standards and good practice, funding issues and development, research studies to understand partner benefits and user groups, sustainability issues, and future research directions.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Belden, Dreanna; Phillips, Mark Edward; Carlisle, Tara & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program (open access)

Assessing an Academic Library Professional Development Program

This article describes how measures of need, participation, satisfaction, and impact are employed to assess many aspects of a professional development program in a large academic library.
Date: January 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discovering What’s between the Dashes with The Portal to Texas History

This article describe the use of The Portal to Texas History for Texas genealogical research.
Date: December 2017
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project (open access)

Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project

This article describes the Preservation of Electronic Government Information Project, a two-year initiative aimed at addressing national concerns around the collection and preservation of born-digital government information by cultural memory organizations for long-term public use.
Date: February 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions? (open access)

Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

This article discusses the financial sustainability of scholarly publishing and libraries, based off the author's presentation given at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2016 Satellite Meeting on Libraries as Publishers: Building a Global Community.
Date: August 18, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library