Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation (open access)

Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation

This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date: December 27, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Revisiting Copyright and Scholarly Communication Issues while Promoting Open Educational Resources (OER)

This presentation discusses trends and initiatives in promoting open access and open educational resources.
Date: December 16, 2016
Creator: Helge, Kris & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Are print books REALLY dead? Exploring the relationship between technology acceptance and the use of e-books at a large research university

This presentation discusses a study of undergraduate students at the University of North Texas to understand factors related to students' intent to use and actual use of e-books.
Date: November 21, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson; Billings, Emily & Smith, Susan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Case for a Publishing Analytics Data Alliance

This presentation discusses Project Meerkat, a project aimed “to develop guidelines and standards for digital scholarly monograph usage data and to construct a neutral organizational apparatus for the ongoing collection and aggregation of data about these scholarly publications,” and the resulting cooperative to be developed out of that project, the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.
Date: November 21, 2016
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

It Starts at the Top: Developing a Motivational Leadership Style That Moves Mountains

This presentation describes a variety of successful changes within the University of North Texas Libraries' Access Services such as re-organizing the structure of the department, establishing new services, and accomplishing projects. Stages of change from idea to implementation and the facilitation of communication throughout the process will be discussed.
Date: November 17, 2016
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh & Venner, Mary Ann
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Letting the collections tell their story: Using Tableau for collection evaluation

This presentation contains the workshop presented at the 2016 Library and Information Technology Association Forum pre-conference session. This workshop presentation includes an introduction to the Tableau Public software, data management, and developing dashboards.
Date: November 17, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen; Klein, Janette & Parwani, Priya B.
Object Type: Presentation
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.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Are print books REALLY dead?

This poster describes a study of e-book usage using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and Technology Acceptances Model (TAM).
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson; Smith, Susan; Miller, Erin & Billings, Emily
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Assessment & ARL Libraries Summary Results from ARL SPEC KIT #352

This poster summarizes results from the Association of Research Libraries SPEC Kit #352: Collection Assessment.
Date: October 31, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Promoting Positive Changes with Assessment in a Public Services Setting

This presentation discusses the positive aspects of change using the case study of UNT Libraries' Public Services setting, as well as how public services impacts students, faculty, and community members.
Date: October 21, 2016
Creator: Hargis, Carol & Venner, Mary Ann
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Climbing the summit together: preservation of born-digital goverment information

Presentation for the Fall 2016 Depository Library Conference. This presentation summarizes the Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit and discusses on-going digital preservation efforts.
Date: October 17, 2016
Creator: Jacobs, James R.; Sittel, Robbie & Walls, David
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Indexing Quality and Effectiveness: An Exploratory Analysis of Electronic Theses and Dissertations Representation

This poster details a study of index terms in UNT's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation collection to understand the effectiveness of terms in matching users' queries.
Date: October 16, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings (open access)

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2016 Midwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. The notes and presentation focus on the classification of live music recordings, the theory behind current cataloging standards, and why these recordings and their organization are important to libraries.
Date: October 9, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Presentation for the 2016 Midwest Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association. This presentation focuses on the classification of live music recordings, the theory behind current cataloging standards, and why these recordings and their organization are important to libraries.
Date: October 9, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Importance of GIS Repositories

This presentation highlights the importance of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) data repositories, including issues and challenges.
Date: October 8, 2016
Creator: Burns, Douglas
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Bringing Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) to the Point of Use: Metadata vs. Full-Text Controversy

This presentation discusses the increase of URLS within electronic theses and dissertations at UNT, and a comparison of queries through metadata and full-text discovery.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings (open access)

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Notes accompanying a presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Conference. The notes and presentation focus on the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classified Information for All: Etree, The Internet, and the Folksonomies of Live Music Recordings

Presentation for the 2016 Digital Frontiers Annual Conference.This presentation focuses on the classification of live music recordings, and positions it in the scope of digital humanities, explaining how it came to be and what the academy can learn from it.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Yes, but is it Linked Open Data?

Poster presented at Digital Frontiers. This poster presents preliminary results from an analysis of 407 success proposals to the National Endowment for the Humanities' Office of Digital Humanities grant program.
Date: September 22, 2016
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Grumbach, Elizabeth & Potvin, Sarah
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Escape to the Library: Building a Library Learning Escape Room for Incoming Students

This presentation details the design of an escape room as part of the "First Flight" orientation for incoming freshmen at the University of North Texas.
Date: September 16, 2016
Creator: Kincaid, Jeremy; Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Robson, Diane
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Critical Digital Pedagogy Kick Off Meeting

This presentation provides an overview of the Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network Grant project, including activities, goals, and projected outcomes.
Date: September 9, 2016
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Balancing Locally Curated Open Access Collections and Their Costs

Presentation for the NISO Webinar "Managing an Open Access World. Part 1: Open Access & Acquisitions. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' attempts to curate open access collections.
Date: September 7, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enabling Scholarly Annotation Using Open Frameworks for the Web

This presentation presents two implementations of the W3C Web Annotation Working Group’s data model for annotations: Hypothesis (for annotating webpages) and IIIF (for interoperability of images).
Date: August 24, 2016
Creator: Judkins, Julie & Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library