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Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits captions transcript

Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits

Video of the session "Making an Open Information Age: Power, Freedom and Inequality in an Age of Bits," which explores why we can and must create a world of open information and its implications for technology, politics, laws, and economics.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Pollock, Rufus
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy captions transcript

Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy

Video of the presentation "Open Educational Resources: Reducing Costs, Expanding Access, and Improving Efficacy," with an overview of the open educational resources movement, how it is playing out on campus, and research showing the impact on students.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Allen, Nicole
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Perceptions of Open Access captions transcript

Perceptions of Open Access

Video of the panel session "Perceptions of Open Access," discussing perceptions of open access through an analysis of journal solicitation emails, a study of library science open access journals, and a discussion of the future of open access.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Baker, Sarah & Sandlin, Joslyn
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum captions transcript

Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum

Video of the panel session "Reflections on the Symposium...and the Library Publishing Forum," discussing emerging themes from the discussions of the Library Publishing Forum and the UNT Open Access Symposium.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Berkery, Peter & Pitcher, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
SHARE in Open Science and Open Access captions transcript

SHARE in Open Science and Open Access

Video of the presentation "SHARE in Open Science and Open Access," discussing the development of SHARE, an openly available dataset that enables the tracking of research objects across the research lifecycle.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Walters, Tyler
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sustaining Open Access captions transcript

Sustaining Open Access

Video of the panel session "Sustaining Open Access" with presentations discussing open access publishing, specifically through the Open Access Publishing Cooperative Study, the Lethbridge Journal Incubator, and the Digital Monograph P+L tool to estimate full publishing costs.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Stranack, Kevin; O'Donnell, Daniel Paul & Maron, Nancy
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub captions transcript

Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub

Video of the presentation "Why Science is Better with Communism? The Case of Sci-Hub" discussing why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise using the example of Sci-Hub.
Date: May 20, 2016
Creator: Elbakyan, Alexandra
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sharing Session Handout on Tabletop Game Genre Terms (open access)

Sharing Session Handout on Tabletop Game Genre Terms

Handout for the American Library Association's Games and Gaming Round Table sharing session "A Winning Game Plan: Using Genre Terms to Enhance Discovery of Tabletop Games" demonstrating bibliographic and genre authority records for tabletop games.
Date: June 13, 2016
Creator: Yanowski, Kevin; Robson, Diane & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Broadening Access to Books on Texas and Oklahoma

This overview of the grant-funded project was given as a lightning-round presentation during the panel "Giving New Life to Old Books: The NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program" at the 2016 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses.
Date: June 17, 2016
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Let's Get Judgy: Rubric Based Evaluation of Electronic Resources

This poster describes the workflow for evaluating one resources using rubrics covering overall functionality, usability, and licensing and contracts. This poster was presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, FL on June 25, 2016, and at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Congress in Columbus, Ohio on August 15, 2016.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: Miller, Erin & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Don't Just Roll The Dice: Simple Solutions for Circulating Game Collections Effectively

This presentation discusses a year-long research project by the UNT Media Library to assess different preservation techniques to extend the life of a game collection and minimize missing pieces.
Date: June 26, 2016
Creator: Guerrero, Steven; Phillips, Jessica & Robson, Diane
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
OA Resource Rubric (open access)

OA Resource Rubric

This rubric represents a simple and effective way to determine if an Open Access resources is of appropriate quality for inclusion in a library catalog.
Date: July 19, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing the Success of a Professional Development Program

This poster describes how assessment can be incorporated into a professional development program for academic librarians by using measures of need, participation, satisfaction, and impact.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen; Sassen, Catherine & O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Charting New Territory: Mapping the UNT Libraries Collections

Presentation given at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference on July 22, 2016. This presentation describes the components and creation of the Collection Map, a collection assessment tool developed by the University of North Texas.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen & Klein, Janette
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluation of a Bestsellers Leasing Program in an Academic Library

This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries assessment of a book leasing program for popular fiction and non-fiction items.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Condrey, Coby
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

From Acceptance to Assessment: Academic Librarians CAN Card-Swipe

This poster describes the results of longitudinal research of academic librarians using card-swiping technologies to improve collaborative assessment efforts on a large public university campus.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Brannon, Sian & Smith, Susan
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Making MINES for Libraries Work for Your Library

This presentation provides an overview of the use of MINES for Libraries® at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Harker, Karen & Parwani, Priya B.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Promoting Excellent Service: Establishing Core Competencies in Training Student Employees

This presentation provides an overview of the University of North Texas Libraries Access Services training plan for student employees.
Date: July 22, 2016
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh; Knox, Briana & Peebles, Emily
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit (open access)

Communicating Organizational Commitment to Long-Term Sustainability through a Trusted Digital Repository Self-Audit

This paper provides an overview of the UNT Libraries' self-audit using criteria from the Trusted Repositories Audit and Certification checklist. It contains an overview of the structure of this self-audit, explores the documents generated and auited, and examines the challenges and solutions as revealed by this process. This paper also contains findings specifically related to the digital newspaper and news video content.
Date: July 27, 2016
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Boy Asked the Wind, A (open access)

[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
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library