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Video Game Equipment Loss and Durability in a Circulating Academic Collection (open access)

Video Game Equipment Loss and Durability in a Circulating Academic Collection

This article reviewed twelve years of circulation data related to loss and damage of video game equipment, specifically consoles, game controllers, and gaming peripherals such as steering wheels, virtual reality headsets, and joysticks in an academic library collection.
Date: September 24, 2023
Creator: Robson, Diane; Bryant, Sarah & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating a Sustainable Professional Development Program (open access)

Creating a Sustainable Professional Development Program

Article describing a professional development program for academic librarians at a large research university that has been operating continuously for eight years. Multiple components of the program and their related practices and procedures contribute to its longevity and continuing relevance for librarians.
Date: December 8, 2022
Creator: O'Toole, Erin; Sassen, Catherine; Willis, Shannon; Guerrero, Steven & Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library
Becoming an Associate Dean: A Librarian’s Tale of Lessons Learned (open access)

Becoming an Associate Dean: A Librarian’s Tale of Lessons Learned

Article shares the leadership lessons learned by a librarian who once served as a faculty member but then became an Associate Dean. Transitioning from a faculty role to an administrative one creates a landscape of learning that promotes growth and exposes challenges. This is the submitted/accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: Winter 2020
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
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
EPIC:  A Proposed Model for Approaching Metadata Improvement (open access)

EPIC: A Proposed Model for Approaching Metadata Improvement

Abstract: This paper outlines iterative steps involved in metadata improvement within a digital library: Evaluate, Prioritize, Identify, and Correct (EPIC). The process involves evaluating metadata values system-wide to identify errors; prioritizing errors according to local criteria; identifying records containing a particular error; and correcting individual records to eliminate the error. Based on the experiences at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, we propose that these cyclical steps can serve as a model for organizations that are planning and conducting metadata quality assessment.
Date: 2020
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating a Library Publishing Program for Scholarly Books: Your Options Are Limited (open access)

Creating a Library Publishing Program for Scholarly Books: Your Options Are Limited

This commentary article discusses the key questions to be addressed before establishing a library publishing program for scholarly books.
Date: January 10, 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance (open access)

Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance

This article studies the marketing practices of predatory journals through the analysis of a a subset of the 1,816 e-mails received by a single university biology faculty member during a 24-month period.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Madasu, Dilip; Hawkins, Kevin S. & Halbert, Martin
System: The UNT Digital Library
What's the Real Story? SLI Session Addresses Challenge of Fake News (open access)

What's the Real Story? SLI Session Addresses Challenge of Fake News

This article discusses a session on "Fake News and the Fate of Our Democracy" at the 2018 Texas Association of School Boards Summer Leadership Institute, and provides information on resources and strategies for assessing the legitimacy of news information.
Date: 2018-09/2018-10
Creator: French, Corinne & Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
Identity Management at the University of North Texas (open access)

Identity Management at the University of North Texas

Brief history of name authority in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Collections, including the development and use of a local name authority database for creators associated with the UNT community. This text was part of the article "Who Is This: Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management" published in the May/June 2018 issue of AALL Spectrum.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management (open access)

"Who Is This?": Moving from Authority Control to Identity Management

Article describing name authority practices in institutional repositories at three universities -- University of North Texas, Texas A&M University, and the University of Arizona -- and how processes have been adapted in digital libraries to incorporate or be more compatible with linked data.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Graham, Suzanne
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Production Log: A Digital Imaging Capacity Replication Project (open access)

The Production Log: A Digital Imaging Capacity Replication Project

This article describes the University of North Texas Digital Projects Unit Imaging Lab's replication of the Points Process system developed by the Northwestern University Libraries' Repository and DIgital Curation Department.
Date: March 16, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
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
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
[Review] Albert Helps Out (open access)

[Review] Albert Helps Out

This column reviews the book "Albert Helps Out" by Eleano May for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: October 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Boris and the Worrisome Wakies (open access)

[Review] Boris and the Worrisome Wakies

This column reviews the book "Boris and the Worrisome Wakies" by Helen Lester for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: October 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Eat Up! An Infographic Exploration of Food (open access)

[Review] Eat Up! An Infographic Exploration of Food

This column reviews the book "Eat Up! An Infographic Exploration of Food" by Nancy Tupper Ling for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: October 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Private Space Travel (open access)

[Review] Private Space Travel

This column reviews the book "Private Space Travel" for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: October 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Story of Space, The (open access)

[Review] Story of Space, The

This column reviews the book "The Story of Space" by Catherine Barr and Steve Williams for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: October 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
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
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
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
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
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