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Robocamp: Encouraging Young Women to Embrace STEM

This presentation discusses Robocamp, a special summer camp that was created by the University of North Texas (UNT) Computer Science and Engineering department. Robocamp successfully promotes engineering among high school women.
Date: February 2009
Creator: Akl, Robert G.; Keathly, David & Garlick, Ryan
System: The UNT Digital Library

Emerging Trends in Academic Research Libraries

Presentation for the 2015 Consortium of Ethiopia Academic and Research Libraries (CEARL) General Meeting Workshop. This presentation discusses emerging trends in academic and research libraries.
Date: February 2015
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

My Fulbright Experience: Ethiopia (2019-20) & South Africa (2021-22)

Presentation describes Daniel Alemneh's experiences as a Fulbright Scholar.
Date: February 27, 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Repository: Promoting Scholarship via the convergence of (local/global and digital/analogue) contents

Presentation at Jimma University discussing digital repositories and promoting scholarship through the convergence of local/global and digital/analogue contents.
Date: February 19, 2015
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and the Evolving Landscape of Scholarly Communication

Presentation for Addis Ababa University on open access and the evolving landscape of scholarly communication.
Date: February 17, 2015
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Revisiting the Evolving Landscape of Open Access and Scholarly Communication

Presentation at the 2018 Annual Conference of the Association for Library and Information Science Education. This presentation contains questions and topics of discussion for the panelists.
Date: February 8, 2018
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis; Helge, Kris; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Hastings, Samantha Kelly et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Discover America's Cultural Heritage Collections on the Web

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library collections. It also discusses the invisible internet, other Texas digital collections, other large digital collections, major digital collections in other states, subscription databases, and gives strategies for searching all of these databases.
Date: February 25, 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries

This presentation gives an update on the digital collection at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in their Digital Collection and The Portal to Texas History in 2008.
Date: February 22, 2008
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)

This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2009 and the future projects planned.
Date: February 13, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

Update on Digitization Projects at the University of North Texas (UNT)

This presentation gives an update on the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History collections held by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries in 2010.
Date: February 5, 2010
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Century's Only Partway There: "Hundred Year Hall" and the Evolution of the Live Album [Presentation]

This presentation discusses the evolution of live album recordings of The Grateful Dead, from composite recordings taken from multiple shows to one show releases, the motivations behind this transition, and its influence on the live albums of other artists
Date: February 11, 2016
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Dark Star: Etymology of an Enigma

Presentation on the etymology of the lyrics in the song "Dark Star" by the Grateful Dead. Presented as part of the Session "Grateful Dead 3: The World of the Lyrics of the Grateful Dead" at the 2022 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Conference.
Date: February 23, 2022
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library

OK Fine, We'll Lecture: Protest and Social Commentary in the Lyrics of the Grateful Dead [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2014 Southwest Popular/American Culture Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses protest and social commentary in the lyrics of the Grateful Dead.
Date: February 19, 2014
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Turtles All The Way Down To The Tracks: What And Where Is Terrapin Station?

Presentation discussing the interpretation and importance of the Grateful Dead's song, "Terrapin Station." It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 40th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: February 20, 2019
Creator: Berg, Jeremy
System: The UNT Digital Library

These Tunes Ain't Straight In Line: Grateful Dead Shows and Problems with Music Cataloging Outside of the Western Art Paradigm

Presentation provides an overview of the structure upon which modern library resource description is based, and we will highlight the difficulties of imposing this description standard on music for which it was not optimized, using examples from the Grateful Dead repertoire. It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 44th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: February 23, 2023
Creator: Berg, Jeremy & West, Janelle
System: The UNT Digital Library

La indagación como estrategia clave en el aula bilingüe

Presentation highlighting how to use inquiry-based practices in the classroom. It was presented at the National Association for Bilingual Education Conference held in 2017.
Date: February 23, 2017
Creator: Boyd, Rossana R. & Lerwick, Patry
System: The UNT Digital Library

Trivia, Alliances, & Polls: Reimagining Virtual Outreach and Student Engagement

Presentation on the transition to remote outreach and student engagement in an academic library. It was presented at the North American Virtual Reference Online Conference held February 23-25, 2021.
Date: February 25, 2021
Creator: Brents, Madison; Diaz, Sarah & Chung, Frances
System: The UNT Digital Library

Not in My Back Yard!

This presentation is part of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Gas Well Drilling Redux. This presentation discusses the 'not in my back yard' (NIMBY) attitude - opposition by residents to a proposal for new development that is close to their homes - and focus on whether is it principled or hypocritical to simultaneously oppose the development while benefiting economically from it.
Date: February 8, 2012
Creator: Briggle, Adam
System: The UNT Digital Library

This Side of the Border: The Mexican Revolution through the Lens of American Photographer Otis A. Aultman

This presentation discusses the Mexican Revolution, as seen through the camera lens of American photographer Otis A. Aultman. In 2009, El Paso Public Library's Archivist Marta Estrada received a grant from the UNT Libraries to digitize a portion of their Otis Aultman Photograph Collection and add it to The Portal to Texas History. El Paso Public Library's collection on the Portal consists of more than 500 digitized glass plate negative photographs that documents the Mexican Revolution through the eyes of Mr. Aultman, many of which have not been seen for a century.
Date: February 17, 2011
Creator: Carlisle, Tara
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mining Newspaper Archives

This presentation discusses mining online newspaper archives. The topics in this presentation include the types of information found in these newspapers, the technology and standards for digitizing newspapers and offering effective search and navigation, ways to search, view, and browse the newspapers and how to use the search results.
Date: February 2, 2012
Creator: Carlisle, Tara & Murray, Kathleen R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Economic Impacts of the Natural Gas Industry in North Texas

This presentation is part of the UNT Speaks Out faculty lecture series, Gas Well Drilling: What Does it Mean for North Texas? In this presentation, the author discusses the economic benefits to natural gas production, reviews the most recent study on regional economic impacts, considers recent trends in drilling activity, and considers some of the downsides.
Date: February 15, 2011
Creator: Clower, Terry L.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digging into File Formats

This Tech Talk presentation gives an introduction to how data is represented on a filesystem, a hands-on demo of DROID, and a discussion of similar tools including 'file' (unix command line) and JHOVE.
Date: February 12, 2014
Creator: Eisenhauer, Stephen
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cataloging, Preservation, and Discovery of Radio Content in Music Libraries and Archives (Or, “Where’s Willis?”)

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Presentation given as part of the session "Cataloging, Preservation, and Discovery of Radio Content in Music Libraries and Archives" at the 2018 Music Library Association conference in Portland, Oregon.
Date: February 3, 2018
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
System: The UNT Digital Library

My Data is So Open-Refined: Make Your Data the High-Class Kind

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Presentation for a workshop on OpenRefine for the Music OCLC Users Group meeting in Norfolk, VA held on February 25-26, 2020.
Date: February 26, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
System: The UNT Digital Library