On the Removal of Download Access to Grateful Dead Soundboards from the Live Music Archive (open access)

On the Removal of Download Access to Grateful Dead Soundboards from the Live Music Archive

Article on the removal of download access to Grateful Dead soundboards from the Live Music Archive.
Date: August 1, 2012
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inadvertent RDA: New Catalogers' Errors in AACR2 (open access)

Inadvertent RDA: New Catalogers' Errors in AACR2

This article discusses Resource Description and Access (RDA) and new catalogers' errors in Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2).
Date: August 17, 2012
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Feeling Animal: Pet-Making and Mastery in the Slave's Friend (open access)

Feeling Animal: Pet-Making and Mastery in the Slave's Friend

Article on an American Anti-Slavery Society periodical, the 'Slave's Friend,' which ran from 1836 to 1839. The author describes the abolitionist sentiment and the animal metaphor.
Date: August 30, 2012
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Problem of Data (open access)

The Problem of Data

Report on the problem of data, workflows and methodologies at a variety of academic data curation sites, and the academic milieu of library and information schools that offer instruction in data curation.
Date: August 2, 2012
Creator: Jahnke, Lori; Asher, Andrew & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Is It Really That Bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems

This presentation is for a workshop and discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Link Resolver Testing

This excel file accompanies a workshop presentation titled 'Is it really that bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems'.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Steps for Using the Worksheets for Evaluating Link Resolvers (open access)

Steps for Using the Worksheets for Evaluating Link Resolvers

This worksheet accompanies a workshop presentation titled 'Is it really that bad? Verifying the extent of full-text linking problems', which discusses a methodology for addressing full-text linking problems.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

What If... ? Analysis of Demand-Driven Acquisitions of E-Books at UNT

This poster discusses Demand-Driven Acquisitions (DDA) of e-books at UNT.
Date: August 9, 2012
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Book Reviews in an Electronic Age

Poster presented at the 2012 IAMSLIC Annual Conference. This poster discusses research on book reviews in marine and aquatic journals to gain insight into the characteristics of the reviews and their value to librarians and research.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler; Heil, Kathy & Wiest, Natalie H., 1948-
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then... (open access)

Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then...

This paper accompanies a poster presentation on patron driven acquisitions. The ups and downs of initiating and assessing a patron acquisitions program at the University of North Texas (UNT) will be highlighted. Emphasis will be placed on changing the philosophy of collection development, how to start the program (through a jobber or direct), coordinating print and electronic acquisitions processes, and assessing the first year's purchases.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Harker, Karen
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Patron Driven Acquisitions: Or I Wish I Knew Then... [Poster]

This poster discusses patron driven acquisitions. The ups and downs of initiating and assessing a patron acquisitions program at the University of North Texas (UNT) will be highlighted. Emphasis will be placed on changing the philosophy of collection development, how to start the program (through a jobber or direct), coordinating print and electronic acquisitions processes, and assessing the first year's purchases.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Harker, Karen
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library