Presentation for the September 2017 Library Learning Services Retreat. This presentation was developed as part of the Information Fluency Initiative in the 2015-2018 UNT Libraries Strategic Plan and examines of core concepts of the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education frame "Authority is Constructed and Contextual."

This poster describes the workflow for evaluating one resources using rubrics covering overall functionality, usability, and licensing and contracts. This poster was presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, FL on June 25, 2016, and at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Congress in Columbus, Ohio on August 15, 2016.

This paper discusses how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. It delves into some of the reasons why this convent is not yet preserved, and examines the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type.

This article looks at the role of the UNT Libraries as an essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-at-home declaration in Denton County, Tx in the Spring of 2020.

This article describes how merging service points in an academic library is an opportunity to improve customer service and utilize staffing resources more efficiently.

Presented for the Red River Historical and Genealogical Society. This presentation provides an overview of The Portal to Texas History, including information on search functions and available research types.

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In this presentation, the speakers will use current scholarship on IR and assessment methods to tease apart elements useful for understanding the fluid components of an open access policy.

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In June 2015, the UNT Libraries launched a for-fee service for publishing works of scholarship from authors affiliated with the university. While authors can choose from a menu of editing and design options, all publications are made free to read online through the institutional repository. In this presentation, we reflect on our choices in designing the publishing service—such as not organizing peer review, delivering publications through the repository, requiring free public access but not Creative Commons licenses—and on what authors have chosen from the menu of options over the past two years.

Handout for the American Library Association's Games and Gaming Round Table sharing session "A Winning Game Plan: Using Genre Terms to Enhance Discovery of Tabletop Games" demonstrating bibliographic and genre authority records for tabletop games.

Presentation for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses University of North Texas Libraries' approach to open access content from a collection development viewpoint.

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 overview of the grant-funded project was given as a lightning-round presentation during the panel "Giving New Life to Old Books: The NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program" at the 2016 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses.

Slides presented during panel “Four Case Studies, Four Ways: Highlights from AAUP's Review of OA Projects” at the 2017 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses. This presentation by the principal investigator of this grant-funded project describes how we chose the topic of Texas and Oklahoma, what has surprised him about working with outside organizations and presses, what the challenges of working with outside organizations and presses have been, and what the good things about working with outside organizations have been.

Presented at Data Power 2017. This presentation describes the vision for a cooperative of stakeholder institutions called the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.

Presentation for the 13th International Conference on Open Repositories. This presentation examines how users navigate between UNT Scholarly Works and other collections available through the University of North Texas Digital Library.

Handout for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference for the Games & Gaming Round Table. This document contains genre terms for cataloging makerspace materials within the University of North Texas Libraries.

Poster presented at the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference. This poster describes the collaborations involved in promoting student e-portfolios.

Handout presented for the 2018 Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. This text contains a mock operating budget for Aquiline Books, a University of North Texas Libraries publishing service.

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.

Poster sharing the creation of a MarcEdit task library via GitHub that can be used by catalogers or individuals in the cataloging community. It was presented at the 2022 American Library Association (ALA) Conference held in Washington, D.C.

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.

Presented at the 2017 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses how best practices were implemented to meet user needs when cataloging a large collection of tabletop games.

Poster presented at the 2017 ALA Annual Conference. This poster summarizes the application of the technology acceptance model to the use of e-books at a large research university.

Presentation for the 2017 American Library Association annual conference. This presentation contains an overview of digital collections and preservation efforts at the University of North Texas Libraries.