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Advocating to Grow Collections Mentoring to Grow Leaders

Presentation for the 2015 Louisiana Library Association (LLA) Government Documents Round Table Section (GODART) Breakfast Meeting. This presentation discusses advocating to grow collections and mentoring to grow leaders.
Date: March 27, 2015
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix A: Preservation Business Model (open access)

Appendix A: Preservation Business Model

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix includes the 2010-2013 Strategic Plan which highlights the Educopia institute's strengths and achievements to date and details the strategic planning process. Specifically this strategic plan declares Educopia institute's: Mission statement, Vision, Three Critical Challenges, and Six Programmatic Goals (with objectives and strategies).
Date: March 13, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer (open access)

Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document is a report on the status of a two-phase transfer test being carried out between the MetaArchive Cooperative and Chronopolis. These tests aim to demonstrate a proof-of-concept that the MetaArchive network may use Chronopolis's data grid preservation service as an exit strategy in the event that either MetaArchive or LOCKSS becomes unsustainable in the future.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep (open access)

Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes the preparation of archival units residing on a LOCKSS file system that have been designated for packaging and exchange with a non-LOCKSS-based preservation environment-in this case an iRODS grid-based environment.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool (open access)

Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes tools. These tools are designed to facilitate the transfer of data contained within a number of LOCKSS archival units and packaged into bags. The bags are then transferred to the iRODS grid. The user has the option of creating and sending filled bags, or holey bags. The primary tools are written in Python, and make use of the iRODS command line utilities for data transfer.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer (open access)

Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices (open access)

Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. The purpose of this document is to explain the PREMIS Event microservice as prototyped for the MetaArchive Cooperative, primarily from a developer's standpoint. The document will attempt to explain the purpose of the microservice, the underlying principles on which it operates, and a practical example of its usage. The MetaArchive has installed all of the components needed to deploy this microservice and looks forward to opportunities to experiment with practical implementations in future development projects.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography: Usage of E-books With Enriched Bibliographic Records (open access)

Bibliography: Usage of E-books With Enriched Bibliographic Records

This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the 2014 Electronic Resources and Libraries Conference. The bibliography contains citations for information related to the usage of e-books with enriched bibliographic records.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Harker, Karen & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Breaking Silos: Interdepartmental Collaboration for Better Electronic Collection Development (open access)

Breaking Silos: Interdepartmental Collaboration for Better Electronic Collection Development

Handout accompanying a presentation for the 2014 ER&L Annual Conference. This handout includes presentation session information, agenda, and selected references and further readings.
Date: March 17, 2014
Creator: Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Silos: Interdepartmental Collaboration for Better Electronic Collection Development [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2014 ER&L Annual Conference. This presentation discusses interdepartmental collaboration for better electronic collection development.
Date: March 17, 2014
Creator: Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 2/3 (open access)

Curators' Evaluation of WAS Release 2/3

This report discusses the curators' evaluation of WAS release 2/3, part of the Web-at-Risk project.
Date: March 16, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Do They (Or We) Know It's Clipping? Sound Quality and the Music Librarian's Role in Educating Younger Listeners

Presentation for the 2013 Music Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses sound quality and the music librarian's role in educating younger listeners.
Date: March 1, 2013
Creator: Justice, Andrew
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Engaging the Twitter Backchannel as Digital Scholarship: Methods for Analyzing Scholarly Engagement in Alternative Media (open access)

Engaging the Twitter Backchannel as Digital Scholarship: Methods for Analyzing Scholarly Engagement in Alternative Media

Article on methods for analyzing scholarly engagement in alternative media and engaging the Twitter backchannel as digital scholarship.
Date: March 26, 2013
Creator: Najmi, Anjum & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Access to E-books (open access)

Enhancing Access to E-books

Article on a study of enhancing access to e-books.
Date: March 15, 2015
Creator: Harker, Karen & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan Library (open access)

The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan Library

Book chapter on the evolution of publishing agreements at the University of Michigan Library. Taking as an example an open-access journal with a single editor, this chapter discusses the various configurations of rights agreements used by the University of Michigan Library throughout the evolution of its publishing operation, the advantages of the various models, and the reasons for moving from one to another.
Date: March 2015
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Extending the TAM2 Model: Card Swiping and Academic Librarians

Presentation discusses use of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) and its extended modified TAM2 Model to examine pre- and post-implementation factors in adopting card swiping for libraries.
Date: March 11, 2016
Creator: Smith, Susan & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Finding High Level Evidence in PubMed

The presentation defines high level evidence in medical literature and demonstrates how to find it using MeSH and Clinical Queries.
Date: March 15, 2013
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, August 31, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, August 31, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 21, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: Federal Depository Library Conference - Washington, D.C. - October, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: Federal Depository Library Conference - Washington, D.C. - October, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 28, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: New York University - New York City - September, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: New York University - New York City - September, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 24, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

A For-Fee Library-Based Publishing Service: Eagle Editions at the University of North Texas Libraries [1]

Poster presented at the 2015 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference. This poster provides an overview of a recently launched scholarly publishing service at the University of North Texas.
Date: March 26, 2015
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Guide to Options for ETD Programs (open access)

Guide to Options for ETD Programs

Chapter from Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs. This chapter describes ETD access policies and intellectual property issues, deposit procedures, repository system options, ETD program management and ETD program services.
Date: March 21, 2014
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Hidden Collection of LPs: Cataloging with Connexion and MarcEdit

This presentation provides an overview of a pilot program cataloging LPs with Connexion and MarcEdit. Slides include presentation notes. Presented at the 2016 Music OCLC (MOUG) Annual Conference.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

How Are We Doing? Assessing the Relevance of Cataloging Services

Poster presentation for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference. This poster summarizes the results of a survey administered by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services Department from October 27 through November 17, 2014. The purpose of the research study was to assess how Public Service employees rate the importance of Cataloging and Metadata Services activities, and how satisfied Public Service employees are with Cataloging and Metadata Services activities.
Date: March 27, 2015
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; Loafman, Kathryn & Welch, Rebecca
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library