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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

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

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
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

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
Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site (open access)

Turning Students On To Your Library's Web Site: using web site usability techniques to improve student use of your library's site

This paper introduces the concept of web site usability, provides a brief introduction to the techniques, offers examples from two “real life” studies that show how the techniques of formal usability studies, focus groups, and card sorts can be used and offers tips and tricks for employing these techniques.
Date: February 5, 2004
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
Object Type: Paper
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

Web Site Usability Testing at the Libraries

This presentation from the 2003 Texas Library Association Conference discusses the purpose and procedures for conducting website usability testing.
Date: 2003
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth; Byerly, Gayla & May, Frances A.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Providing a Complete Menu: Using Competitive Usability in a Home Page Usability Study (open access)

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
Object Type: Article
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
Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game (open access)

Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game

The handout consists of an example of a catalog record for a tabletop game (including genre terms), an authority record for a genre term, a reference to a list of genre terms for tabletop games, and a bibliography of works on genre terms.
Date: April 19, 2017
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
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
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
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

Enhancing the Discovery of Unique Collections

This poster includes best practices for using genre headings to enhance discovery of tabletop games.
Date: April 19, 2017
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game (open access)

Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game

This handout accompanies the poster "Enhancing the Discovery of Unique Collections" and contains an example of genre authority records, a partial bibliographic record, and a list of authorized genre headings.
Date: April 19, 2017
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
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

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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Biophilic Design for Libraries: Integrating and Referencing Nature to Create More Human-Centered Spaces

This poster discusses biophilic design for libraries.
Date: February 7, 2017
Creator: Barham, Rebecca; O'Toole, Erin & Smith, Susan
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Midterm Report (open access)

Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Midterm Report

This report details the mid-term status of the Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network project funded through the University of North Texas Office of Faculty Success Team Mentoring Grant.
Date: February 28, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Final Report (open access)

Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Final Report

This report documents the final report the Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network project funded through the University of North Texas Office of Faculty Success Team Mentoring Grant. This final report includes a summary of Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 activities, along with other related events.
Date: May 10, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Report
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

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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library