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Childhood Studies at the Digital Turn

This presentation from the Modern Language Association 2017 panel "Keep the H in DH" examines the parallel emerging fields of digital humanities and literary childhood studies.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Owning Your Labor Is A Skill

This presentation from the Modern Language Association 2017 panel "Digital Humanities in Secondary Education" offers a look at the ethical implications of bringing digital humanities praxis to secondary education.
Date: January 8, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
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

Are You on the Happiness Track? Do You Want to Be?

This presentation discusses key points of research on happiness including several techniques application to attendees' personal and professional lives.
Date: April 3, 2017
Creator: Smith, Susan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluating Paid For And Open Access Resources

Data comes in a multitude of formats, concerns most subject areas, but is often found freely available. After pulling from a variety of resources, talking to numerous librarians, and researching offerings, this presentation presents all necessary elements of a data resource into an easy-to-use evaluation rubric and collection development policy.
Date: April 4, 2017
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
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

3D Printing Book History: Extending Bibliographical Pedagogy Through Additive Manufacturing

Presented at the 2017 Day of Digital Humanities. This presentation provides an overview of the 3Dhotbed project to extend bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing.
Date: April 5, 2017
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.; McIntosh, Marcia & O'Sullivan, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Found You! Identifying and Accessing Hidden Collections

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' efforts to identify, document, and increase access to hidden or obscured collections.
Date: May 11, 2017
Creator: Brannon, Sian
System: The UNT Digital Library

Comics in Academia

Panel presented at the 2017 Comicpalooza. This panel discusses comics in academia through the lens of library exhibitions and programing, combining comics and textbooks, and the use of comics as a new rhetorical and multimodal method for exploring narrative.
Date: May 12, 2017
Creator: Martin, John Edward; Gehring, Krista & Helms, Jason
System: The UNT Digital Library

Skill Building for Effective Use of Multidimensional Measurements in Collection Assessments

Presentation for the 2017 ALCTS Exchange Virtual Conference. This presentation explores multidimensional measures including percentage of expected use, percentage of expected holdings, and ratio of borrowings to holdings.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
System: The UNT Digital Library

Skill Building for Effective Use of Multidimensional Measurements in Collection Assessments: Discussion Guide

Discussion guide presentation for the 2017 ALCTS Exchange Virtual Conference. This guide explores multidimensional measures including percentage of expected use, percentage of expected holdings, and ratio of borrowings to holdings.
Date: May 18, 2017
Creator: Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
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

3Dhotbed: Harnessing 3D Technologies and Data to Teach the History of the Book

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation includes the case study of developing 3D models of the tools, hosting the resulting data in the digital library, and the pedagogical opportunities the project has afforded.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Jacobs, Courtney E. & O'Sullivan, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Replicating Processes: Testing the Project Points System at UNT Digital Projects

Presentation at the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation describes the replication of a points system used by Northwestern University's Digital Media Services department to better understand lab resources and capacity within the UNT Digital Projects Lab.
Date: May 24, 2017
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia & Willis, Shannon
System: The UNT Digital Library

Lessons Learned in Creating New Digital Libraries Interfaces

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses lessons learned from the UNT Libraries redesign of two digital library interfaces: The Portal to Texas History and the UNT Digital Library.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Hicks, William & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching Poe in the Context of the ACRL’s Framework for Information Literacy

Presented at the 2017 American Literature Association, in a session organized by the Poe Studies Association. This presentation discusses how the Association of College and Research Libraries Framework for Information Literacy can be used as a pedagogical basis for teaching the works of Edgar Allan Poe.
Date: May 25, 2017
Creator: Martin, John Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Authority is Constructed and Contextual: Breaking Down the ACRL Framework

Presentation for the September 2017 Library Learning Services Retreat. This presentation was developed as part of the Information Fluency Initiative in the 2015-2018 UNT Libraries Strategic Plan and examines of core concepts of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education frame "Authority is Constructed and Contextual."
Date: June 2017
Creator: Henson, Brea
System: The UNT Digital Library

Deciphering Signatures for Improved Discoverability of ETDs

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. This lightning round presentation describes the creation of a database for deciphering and cataloging signatures for recently-digitized theses and dissertations.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Wolf, Stacey & Yanowski, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Toward a Better Understanding of Open Access Policy Assessment

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In this presentation, the speakers will use current scholarship on IR and assessment methods to tease apart elements useful for understanding the fluid components of an open access policy.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Zerangue, Amanda & Harker, Karen
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

The Portal to Texas History: Filling In Your Story

Presented for the Red River Historical and Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History, including information on search functions and available research types.
Date: June 12, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library

Broadening access to books on Texas and Oklahoma

Slides presented during panel “Four Case Studies, Four Ways: Highlights from AAUP's Review of OA Projects” at the 2017 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses. This presentation by the principal investigator of this grant-funded project describes how we chose the topic of Texas and Oklahoma, what has surprised him about working with outside organizations and presses, what the challenges of working with outside organizations and presses have been, and what the good things about working with outside organizations have been.
Date: June 13, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
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