The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.

Presentation for Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019. This presentation discusses ways to enhance student assistants productivity and shares UNT's experiences, including simplifying workflows and making small changes in training that can go long ways in terms of improving students overall performances.

Presentation for Association for Recorded Sound Collections 53rd Annual Conference 2019. This presentation discusses about unofficial live show recordings, aka bootlegs, concert tapes, RoIOs, etc. The presentation answers various questions including, what is the collection, why is it important, how is it currently stored and classified, among others.

Presentation for Games in Libraries, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire 2019. This presentation provides a snapshot of the previous census and discusses about the current state of gaming in libraries including types of games and equipment, online digital games, licensing, staffing budgets issues. Based on the analysis and synthesis of the survey feedback, the presentation speculates about common issues and what the future bring.

Slides and speaker notes for a portion of the panel “The State of Open Access in Texas Institutions” at the Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019.

Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation argues that open access to legal information drives access to justice. Based on the first hand experience of one of the busiest public law libraries in the country, leveraging technology and library budgets to move legal forms and information from behind paywalls can open the courthouse doors for those who cannot afford legal representation. Speakers provide practical examples from their experiences at a metropolitan public law library to showcase the opportunities for bridging justice gaps with open access.

Presentation for Ohio Valley Group of Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference 2019. This presentation argues that Authority control is an important part of cataloging since it helps provide consistent access to names, titles, subjects, and genre/forms. There are a variety of methods for providing authority control, ranging from manual, time-consuming processes to automated processes. However, the automated processes often seem out of reach for small libraries when it comes to using a pricey vendor or needing a cataloger with particular expertise. The presentation introduces several ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. It also describes how their library handles authority control; compare vendors and programs that can be used to provide varying levels of authority control; and demonstrate a few methods of providing some authority control for free using MarcEdit.

Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation explores whether Open Access is an Answer for Access to Justice in general. In particular, it highlights the implication of open access to Primary Legal Materials on Access to Justice in the state of Texas.

Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This hands-on workshop focuses on using design thinking methodology to prototype solutions to the access to justice gap. The workshop cultivate participants’ creative problem-solving skillset (including prototype innovative solutions to an A2J issue discussed earlier in the Symposium) and empower them to lead their own initiative at their home institutions.

Presentation for the 2019 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation highlights emerging technologies that are currently addressing barriers to justice, ranging from open casebooks to artificial intelligence functionality for open legal data repositories, and how these types of emerging tech can level the playing field for all stakeholders in the justice system. .

Presentation for Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019. This presentation discusses several emerging trends and scenarios that change the directions of scholarship in general: ranging from the availability of interoperable Open Access contents to cross discipline collaborations, big data and global and explosive growth of social networking. In particular, this presentation provides ETDs evolution in the last twenty years and provide example using the UNT experience. As one of the early adopters of ETD in 1999, the closer look at UNT's ETD collection provide interesting data about the the overall change in ETD production, usages, including locations and types of devices users used to access the ETD collection.

Presentation describing the BFA Fibers Senior Exhibition "No Major No Rules."

Presentation for the Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree Fibers Senior Exhibition

Images from the Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree Fibers Senior Exhibition

Presentation from the Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree Fibers Senior Exhibition

Presentation for the Bachelor's of Fine Arts degree Fibers Senior Exhibition

Presentation for the 2012 International Internet Preservation Consortium General Assembly. This presentation describes Los Alamos National Laboratory's involvement in Project Memento for web archiving.

Presented at the 2018 Ke Au Hou Pacific Librarianship Conference. This presentation describes a pre-conference workshop that provides attendees with a better understanding of the landscape related to digital preservation and access among cultural heritage institutions, key components in the ongoing process of preserving digital information, and the building blocks of digital preservation systems.

Presentation for the dissertation defense of Brenda Reyes Ayala. This presentation builds a theory of information quality for web archives that is grounded in human-centered data.

This presentation provides an overview of the design features and goals of newly-developed metadata quality interfaces in the University of North Texas Libraries’ Digital Collections. Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries

Slides presented during the panel “Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs” at the Library Publishing Forum 2018. This presentation describes the impetus behind Project Meerkat, a publishing analytics data alliance.

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides a detailed look at how University of North Texas Libraries' Special Collections embarked upon a large-scale digitization project involving a portion of the highly requested A/V materials from the NBC-5/KXAS Television News collection, using a third-party vendor. This project included the use of snapshots to help repurpose metadata, then linked data tools in Excel and WikiMedia to create access to tape content titles.

Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter.