Presentation for the 2018 iConference. This presentation provides data from a recent research project at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to better understand how users are discovering electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) in the UNT Libraries.

Presentation for the 2016 US Electronic Theses and Dissertation Association Conference describing the use of additional repository collections to capture supplemental works and make visible the labor of producing a thesis or dissertation.

Presentation on the value of The Portal to Texas History at a symposium at the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, Cultural Heritage Archives: Networks, Innovation & Collaboration. This was part of a session on the users of Cultural Heritage Archival Materials.

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation discusses unofficial music records, and how they have been classified and archived.

This presentation looks at identification problems during the digitization of theses and dissertations. It was presented at the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association 2019 conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

These are the notes for the presentation "Deciphering Signatures for Improved Discoverability of Electronic Theses and Dissertations." presentation looked at identification problems during the digitization of theses and dissertations. It was presented at the United States Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Association 2019 conference in Charleston, South Carolina.

This poster will cover the results and experiences of using Tiktok as a form of peer-to-peer outreach to share research tips with other college students. Specific examples, learned best practices, and future plans for improvement will be discussed. It was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Distance and Online Learning Virtual Poster Session held April 26-30, 2021.

This presentation introduces language archives and analyzes item‐level metadata in three of them by focusing on free‐text metadata: the Endangered Language Archive, Pacific Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures, and the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. The study identified categories of information included in Description metadata fields and the relative distribution of these categories.

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation reports a series of seven studies examining the extent to which background sounds impact individuals' math and language task performance.

This presentation provides an overview of collection development practices. It includes information about the core principles of collection development, ethics, and key approaches to developing a library's collection.

Presentation for a workshop on OpenRefine for the Music OCLC Users Group meeting in Norfolk, VA held on February 25-26, 2020.

Presentation on the interviews present in the John Gilliland Collection, and how they can inform rock music historiography. It was presented at the joint Texas Chapter of the Music Library Association and the Southwest Chapter of the American Musicology Society meeting held on September 24-26, 2020.

This presentation discusses a year-long research project by the UNT Media Library to assess different preservation techniques to extend the life of a game collection and minimize missing pieces.

This presentation discusses teaching Resource Description and Access (RDA). The author describes a first attempt at teaching two students RDA as part of a formal library-school class on 'Special Problems in Music Cataloging.'

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation describes how the University of North Texas Libraries has organized data relevant for assessing subject-based collections.

Presentation for the 2017 International Open Access Week at Southern Methodist University. This presentation discusses issues with open access publishing business models.

Presentation for the September 2017 Subject Liaisons meeting. This presentation was developed as part of the Information Fluency Initiative in the 2015-2018 UNT Libraries Strategic Plan and contains strategies for adapting the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education frame "Authority is Constructed and Contextual" for library instruction and contains an examining of its core concepts.

Presentation for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This presentation discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.

Presented at the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation explores the Trusted Repository Audit and Checklist through the lens of contextual dimensions within knowledge management, using the case study of the University of North Texas Libraries.

Presentation introducing the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on The Portal to Texas History. It provides examples on different ways to explore the collection and includes other, similar resources that might be of interest. It was presented at the RootsTech 2021 virtual conference.

Presentation exploring Open Access, federal mandates for public access to research data, and support services available from the UNT Libraries. It was presented as part of the Division of Research and Innovation's Research BREAKS webinar series.

Presentation for the 2017 International Conference on Knowledge Management. This presentation describes a study of literature on the multidisciplinary processes, models, and theories common to both Knowledge Management and Human Resource Development.

Presentation exploring book digitization practices and standards and share how they are implemented by the UNT Digital Projects Lab. With a large number of books flowing into their department, the authors decided to conduct research on the methods of scanning using the equipment and software available to them. This presentation reports on their findings and what factors went into deciding what type of books get scanned where and how. Results include changes to local digitizing standards and clarified workflows based on the types of books to be scanned. It was presented at the 2023 Visual Resources Association Conference held in San Antonio, Texas.

This presentation provides an overview of the Rescuing Texas History Program, in which University of North Texas Libraries partners with external organizations to preserve at-risk materials.