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By Popular Demand: Modifying Library Policies to Improve User Experience

Presentation given at the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Conference. This presentation explains the UNT Libraries' policies and modifications that have been made to improve services to users. It emphasizes the importance of asking for input from stakeholders and also argues that updating policies accordingly can show to users that their feedback and comments are taken seriously.
Date: 2018
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh; Johnston, Pamela & Cunningham, Chris
System: The UNT Digital Library

Design Thinking for Libraries: Strategies, Tools and a Case Study

Presentation for the 2018 Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference. This presentation focuses on elements from the designer's toolkit to solve problems in libraries, with examples of how a user-centered approach can transform library services, products, and spaces.
Date: February 26, 2018
Creator: Smith, Susan & Barham, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library

3DHotbed Project 2017-2018 Update

Presentation for the 2018 Day of Digital Humanities at the University of North Texas Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of the 3D History of the Book Education (3D Hotbed) project and an update on future developments.
Date: March 6, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Jacobs, Courtney E. & O'Sullivan, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Sustaining your Organization’s Future: Mentoring and Succession Planning in Libraries

Webinar for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. This presentation discusses results of a recent survey of librarians on the prevalence of succession and mentoring plans in academic, public, school, and special libraries, and includes conclusions, best practices, and takeaways for increased mentoring and succession planning
Date: March 14, 2018
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library

Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette

Presentation for the 2018 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference. This presentation discusses how you can advocate for your library while maintaining vendor relationships.
Date: March 16, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Impediments, Partners, and Proposals: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals

Presentation for the 2018 Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students Conference. This presentation shares the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ experience of creating and refashioning workshops to prepare graduate students to write their dissertation or thesis proposals.
Date: March 23, 2018
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Haints & Haunts: Spiritual Correspondence in Harrow County

This presentation was delivered as part of a panel on "Comics and the Epistolary Tradition" at the 2018. Popular Culture Association National Conference. The panel was sponsored by the Comics & Comic Art section of the PCA. It discusses the theme of "correspondence" in the comic series Harrow County, considering the term as part of its narrative and supplementary content, including letters from readers. It argue that the comic creates a shared community of artists, readers, and characters to confront issues of trauma, memory, and childhood.
Date: March 28, 2018
Creator: Martin, John Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

The impact of library instruction on undergraduate student success: A four-year study

Presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This presentation reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Hargis, Carol; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library

Our Users, Our Selves: Evaluating user experience on The Portal to Texas History

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the development and results of a usability study to understand how users navigate The Portal to Texas History.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Mangum, Jake
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tableau: Interactive Data Visualizations For Your Library

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This panel presentation provides experiences with Tableau and other visualizations for library assessment purposes.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Raborn, Karen; Szentkalyi, Zoltan & Scalf, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library

Serenity Now! Overcoming the Fear of Negative Evaluation

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Women in Higher Education Annual Conference. This presentation discusses fear of negative evaluation (FNE), including perceptions of FNE and ways to overcome it.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Brannon, Sian; Crawford, Laurel & Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs: Project Meerkat

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.
Date: May 22, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection

Presentation for the 2018 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Harker, Karen & Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Source Tech for Scholarly Communication

Joint keynote presentation for the 2018 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries and University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the need for open source solutions within the scholarly communication ecosystem.
Date: June 6, 2018
Creator: Strasser, Carly
System: The UNT Digital Library

Compliance with funders' open access mandates: an international comparison

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation examines several open access mandates to compare funded papers' compliance with open access mandates with non-funded papers.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Larivière, Vincent
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating and Maintaining an Open-Access Medical Image Teaching File

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the creation of MedPix®, an open-access online teaching file of medical images.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Smirniotopoulos, J.G.
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Need for Open Access Publications in Commercial Clinical Genetic Workflows

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the adoption (or lack thereof) of Open Access and Open Data trends at for profit healthcare organizations from a scientist’s point of view
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Eggington, Julie M.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and Open Data in For-Profit Healthcare

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses copyright in relation to Open Access and Open Data in for-profit healthcare.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Markovic, Marija
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pathways to Open Access: Exploration leading to action

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses the "Pathways to OA" toolkit which maps out the various approaches, strategies, and next steps for University of California libraries to approach open access.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Taylor, Anneliese
System: The UNT Digital Library

PubMed and Public Access: Distinguishing the Different Resources and Discussing the Impact of Pubmed Central

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides an overview of resources within PubMed and its role in scholarly communication services.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Ossom Williamson, Peace & I.J. Minter, Christian
System: The UNT Digital Library

PubMed Central: Behind the HTML

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation provides a behind-the-scnees tour of the architecture, workflows, and policies of PubMed Central.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Beck, Jeffrey
System: The UNT Digital Library

What Does Open Data Mean to Data Science?

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation discusses how open data facilitates data science and the challenges to open data in the scholarly communication ecosystem.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Bourne, Philip E.
System: The UNT Digital Library

What Tenure Guidelines Actually Say About Public Engagement and Metrics

Presentation for the 2018 University of North Texas Open Access Symposium. This presentation describes recent findings from an analysis of promotion and tenure guidelines regarding the inclusion of open access.
Date: June 7, 2018
Creator: Alperin, Juan Pablo
System: The UNT Digital Library

A business model for author-pays publishing

Presentation for the 2018 Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. This presentation describes the business model for Aquiline Books, a University of North Texas Libraries publishing service.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library