Prioritization of WAS Enhancement Ideas (open access)

Prioritization of WAS Enhancement Ideas

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. Several enhancement ideas for future releases of the Web Archiving Service (WAS) have been identified. In order to refine and prioritize these ideas as well as elicit new enhancement ideas, 16 project curators participated in an online exercise between November 27 and December 16, 2007. The exercise employed a Delphi technique that consisted of a series of three online questionnaires, each available for a five or six day period. This report describes the exercise and reports the results.
Date: December 21, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Teaching Information Literacy: A Performance Based Cycle

This presentation discusses teaching information literacy and a project to assess student searching skills. It includes background information on the project, discusses the performance cycle of information literacy, active teaching, learning, and assessing, student navigation skills, and software and strategies.
Date: December 2007
Creator: Downey, Annie & Byerly, Gayla
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment Path Final Report (open access)

Assessment Path Final Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report describes the major assessment activities, their contributions to the project, and key findings. The assessment work areas included needs assessment, collection planning, and WAS evaluation.
Date: December 27, 2007
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, December 2008 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, December 2008

This report is the second interim performance report for the project titled: Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework. The reporting period is July 1, 2008 through December 31, 2008. The report includes three sections: Interim Goals and Accomplishments, Significant Findings and Accomplishments, and Project Achievements and Lessons Learned.
Date: December 2008
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Customer Service in the Library

Presentation to the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Access Services student assistants. This presentation discusses customer service in the library.
Date: December 2014
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh & Peebles, Emily
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
E-Government and Libraries Helpful Resources (open access)

E-Government and Libraries Helpful Resources

Article on e-government services and how libraries can provide helpful online government resources.
Date: December 1, 2008
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Culinary Indexers' Reference Sources (open access)

Culinary Indexers' Reference Sources

In this article, the author presents a bibliography of reference sources recommended by culinary indexers.
Date: December 1, 2014
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] [1] The Blues Route. [2] Going to Chicago: A Year on the Chicago Blues Scene. [3] Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues. (open access)

[Review] [1] The Blues Route. [2] Going to Chicago: A Year on the Chicago Blues Scene. [3] Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues.

This article reviews the three books "The Blues Route," by Hugh Merrill, "Going to Chicago: A Year on the Chicago Blues Scene," by Stephen Green and Laurence J. Hyman, and "Blues Fell This Morning: Meaning in the Blues," by Paul Oliver.
Date: December 1991
Creator: McKnight, Mark, 1951-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Popular Music and the Underground: Foundations of Jazz, Blues, Country, and Rock, 1900-1950 (open access)

[Review] Popular Music and the Underground: Foundations of Jazz, Blues, Country, and Rock, 1900-1950

This article reviews the book "Popular Music and the Underground: Foundations of Jazz, Blues, Country, and Rock, 1900-1950," by Chuck Mancuso.
Date: December 1997
Creator: McKnight, Mark, 1951-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan (open access)

The Evolution of Publishing Agreements at the University of Michigan

Article 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 article 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: December 11, 2014
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States (open access)

The Success Of A Nation's Soccer Team: A Bellwether Regarding A Nation's Electronic Information Infrastructure, The Legal Regulations That Govern The Infrastructure, The Resulting Citizen-Trust In Its Government And Its E-Readiness In Nigeria, The DPRK, China, Japan, South Korea, The Netherlands And The United States

This article discusses a bellwether regarding a nation's electronic information infrastructure, the legal regulations that govern the infrastructure, the resulting citizen-trust in its government and its e-readiness in seven countries.
Date: December 1, 2012
Creator: Helge, Kris
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Library Publishing Coalition Project

Presentation for the 2012 CNI Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the Library Publishing Coalition Project.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Speer, Julie; Skinner, Katherine & Walters, Tyler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Providing the ETDs of Today for the Researchers of Tomorrow

Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) 2012 Fall Meeting. This presentation discusses the early findings from an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS)-funded project hosted by the University of North Texas (UNT) that is researching and documenting a range of life cycle curation and preservation practices for Electronic Theses and Dissertations.
Date: December 11, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

University of North Texas Digital Scholarship Cooperative

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Scholarship Cooperative. This presentation describes what led to the UNT Digital Scholarship (DS) endeavor and campus planning effort, the aims and different scenarios studied, and the next steps planned.
Date: December 13, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

iCAMP: Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve

This presentation discusses the iCAMP project; Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve. It discusses research data management curricula gaps, a summary of other key projects and findings, the iCAMP project aims and research methodology, gives a review of iCAMP results, and offers questions raised for the future.
Date: December 10, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Online Profiles and Unique Author Identifiers

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Winter Meeting. This presentation discusses online profiles and unique author identifiers, their importance, features, and strategies for successfully using them.
Date: December 13, 2013
Creator: Waugh, Laura & Najmi, Anjum
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

It Takes A Village To Save The Web: The End Of Term Web Archive

Article discussing the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project of the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas, the California Digital Library, and the United States Government Printing Office.
Date: December 31, 2012
Creator: Seneca, Tracy; Grotke, Abigail; Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Carpenter, Kris
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination (open access)

Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination

Article on marketing your library collection to your community and becoming a destination for information.
Date: December 6, 2011
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Cataloging Services in an Academic Library (open access)

Assessment of Cataloging Services in an Academic Library

This article contains survey data on cataloging services as assessed by personnel in the Public Services Division and the Catalog and Metadata Services Department.
Date: December 30, 2015
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; Loafman, Kathryn & Welch, Rebecca
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation: Community Briefing on the ANADP 2011 Summit

Presentation for the 2011 Coalition of Networked Information (CNI) meeting discussing the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Summit, held in the capital of Estonia in May 2011.
Date: December 13, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive: PDF Content Analysis

This presentation discusses the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Archive. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries collaborated with members of the International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) on the End of Term 2008 Presidential Web Harvest from October, 2008 to February, 2009. The project team archived 160,211,356 URIs during this collaboration, which became a research dataset for an IMLS-funded grant to investigate collection development using web archives. The project team analyzed the 10,318,073 PDFs and developed a retrieval and exploration system for collection developers interested in acquiring and developing born-digital collections from the End of Term Web Archive.
Date: December 5, 2012
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The MetaCombine Project

This poster presentation discusses the MetaCombine project, a Mellon-funded effort based at Emory University, with the goal of discovering and developing systems and methods to more meaningfully combine digital libraries, digital library resources, and digital library services.
Date: December 2004
Creator: Krowne, Aaron; Ingram, Stephen; Pathak, Saurabh & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gender and authorship in The Indexer, 1958-2007 (open access)

Gender and authorship in The Indexer, 1958-2007

Article on gender and authorship in The Indexer from 1958 through 2007.
Date: December 2009
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012 (open access)

ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012

Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library