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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
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
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
[Review] Double Happiness
This column reviews the book "Double Happiness" by Nancy Tupper Ling for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
February 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] First Grade Dropout
This column reviews the book "First Grade Dropout" by Audrey Vernick for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
February 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Little Big
This column reviews the book "Little Big" by Jonathan Bentley for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
February 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Mummy Cat
This column reviews the book "Mummy Cat" by Marcus Ewert for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
February 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Traveling Butterflies
This column reviews the book "Traveling Butterflies" by Susumu Shingu for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
February 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
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
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
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 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
[Review] Boy Asked the Wind, A
This column reviews the book "A Boy Asked the Wind" by Barbara Nickel for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
August 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Stories from Bug Garden
This column reviews the book "Stories from Bug Garden" by Lisa Moser for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
August 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Whale, The
This column reviews the book "The Whale" by Vita Murrow for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
August 1, 2016
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
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
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
[Review] Dem Bones
This column reviews the book "Dem Bones" by Bob Barner for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
March 1, 2017
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Fishing with Grandma
This column reviews the book "Fishing with Grandma" by Susan Avingaq and Maren Vsetula for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
March 1, 2017
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Great Big Body Book, The
This column reviews the book "The Great Big Body Book" by Mary Hoffman for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
March 1, 2017
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Review] How Things Work
This column reviews the book "How Things Work" by T.J. Resler for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date:
March 1, 2017
Creator:
Monahan, Jo
System:
The UNT Digital Library