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Professional Development Assessment Paella (open access)

Professional Development Assessment Paella

This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of a professional development program at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: 2017
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; Harker, Karen & O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rendering Repositories: Taking out the Fat and Getting to the Impact (open access)

Rendering Repositories: Taking out the Fat and Getting to the Impact

This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how to survey users for understanding the perceived value of digital library collections.
Date: 2017
Creator: Brannon, Sian & Waugh, Laura
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rubrics and Rutabagas: Only One is Useful for Assessing Staff During Evaluations (open access)

Rubrics and Rutabagas: Only One is Useful for Assessing Staff During Evaluations

This book chapter contains a recipe detailing how rubrics can be used for discussing employee performance expectations and evaluations.
Date: 2017
Creator: Brannon, Sian & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Stop Folding the Dough: Intervening to Decide Whether or Not to Assess Again (open access)

Stop Folding the Dough: Intervening to Decide Whether or Not to Assess Again

This book chapter contains a recipe detailing the assessment methods of the Assessment Workgroup at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: 2017
Creator: Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library (open access)

Succession Planning Through Mentoring in the Library

This article addresses succession planning through mentoring within the library. The authors define succession planning as the recruitment, development, and advancement of library personnel to fill staffing gaps and prepare future leaders.
Date: 2017
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tower Cakes for Ranking Subscription Resources (open access)

Tower Cakes for Ranking Subscription Resources

This book chapter contains a recipe detailing a method to evaluate subscription-based resources based on objective data and subjective input.
Date: 2017
Creator: Harker, Karen; Enoch, Todd & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library

Childhood Studies at the Digital Turn

This presentation from the Modern Language Association 2017 panel "Keep the H in DH" examines the parallel emerging fields of digital humanities and literary childhood studies.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers (open access)

Rediscovering Music Printed in American Newspapers: A Case Study for Mining Non-Textual Content from Digital Newspapers

This paper discusses the use of digital newspaper pages through the Library of Congress database Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers as a case study to demonstrate the value of developing tools to locate non-textual content.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History (open access)

Tracking User Experience of Digital Newspapers on the Portal to Texas History

This paper discusses the research findings of a user experience project directly related to how people interact with newspapers on The Portal to Texas History.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Owning Your Labor Is A Skill

This presentation from the Modern Language Association 2017 panel "Digital Humanities in Secondary Education" offers a look at the ethical implications of bringing digital humanities praxis to secondary education.
Date: January 8, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Biophilic Design for Libraries: Integrating and Referencing Nature to Create More Human-Centered Spaces

This poster discusses biophilic design for libraries.
Date: February 7, 2017
Creator: Barham, Rebecca; O'Toole, Erin & Smith, Susan
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Midterm Report (open access)

Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network: Midterm Report

This report details the mid-term status of the Critical Digital Pedagogy Faculty Mentoring Network project funded through the University of North Texas Office of Faculty Success Team Mentoring Grant.
Date: February 28, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Dem Bones (open access)

[Review] Dem Bones

This column reviews the book "Dem Bones" by Bob Barner for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: March 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Fishing with Grandma (open access)

[Review] Fishing with Grandma

This column reviews the book "Fishing with Grandma" by Susan Avingaq and Maren Vsetula for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: March 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Great Big Body Book, The (open access)

[Review] Great Big Body Book, The

This column reviews the book "The Great Big Body Book" by Mary Hoffman for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: March 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] How Things Work (open access)

[Review] How Things Work

This column reviews the book "How Things Work" by T.J. Resler for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: March 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West (open access)

[Review] Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West

This column reviews the book "Journey: Based on the True Story of OR7, the Most Famous Wolf in the West" by Emma Bland Smith for inclusion in school libraries. This review includes recommendations for teachers, content subjects, and a recommended grade level.
Date: March 1, 2017
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Growing Your Custom Holdings

This presentation is part of the panel "The Care and Feeding of Custom Holdings" from the 2017 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference and shares concrete instructions, best practices, and innovations in the configuration and maintenance of custom holdings groups and paths used within multiple OCLC ILL interfaces at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Johnston, Pamela
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Are You on the Happiness Track? Do You Want to Be?

This presentation discusses key points of research on happiness including several techniques application to attendees' personal and professional lives.
Date: April 3, 2017
Creator: Smith, Susan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Evaluating Paid For And Open Access Resources

Data comes in a multitude of formats, concerns most subject areas, but is often found freely available. After pulling from a variety of resources, talking to numerous librarians, and researching offerings, this presentation presents all necessary elements of a data resource into an easy-to-use evaluation rubric and collection development policy.
Date: April 4, 2017
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

"How do I know if it's useful if I can't even get it to open?" Assessing Information Interaction at the University of North Texas to Improve Library Collections and Services

This presentation discusses the methodology and preliminary results of two usability studies – one on online video, and one on ebooks.
Date: April 4, 2017
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin; Smith, Susan; Wang, Xin; Rodriguez, Allyson & Billings, Emily
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Integrated Collection Development for the 21st Century

This presentation discusses the adoption of a new collection development method implemented by University of North Texas Libraries to better respond to emerging acquisitions models, unstable budgets, and the evolving scholarly communications landscape.
Date: April 4, 2017
Creator: Crawford, Laurel; Condrey, Coby; Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Enoch, Todd
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

3D Printing Book History: Extending Bibliographical Pedagogy Through Additive Manufacturing

Presented at the 2017 Day of Digital Humanities. This presentation provides an overview of the 3Dhotbed project to extend bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing.
Date: April 5, 2017
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.; McIntosh, Marcia & O'Sullivan, Kevin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game (open access)

Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game

This handout accompanies the poster "Enhancing the Discovery of Unique Collections" and contains an example of genre authority records, a partial bibliographic record, and a list of authorized genre headings.
Date: April 19, 2017
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library