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Access Services 2.0 through Employee-Directed Planning

Presentation discusses utilizing participatory leadership techniques such as circle practice and World Cafe´ to enhance employee involvement in organizational planning. Access Services employees were empowered to participate in setting goals, future planning, and restructuring the department. The details of the process, lessons learned, and challenges will be shared. It was presented at the 2022 Access Services Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Keshmiripour, Setareh & Knox, Briana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Adventures in Digital Preservation (and how not to lose your way)

Presentation for the 2013 Conservation Savvy: From Expert to DIY Conference. This presentation discusses adventures in digital preservation and how not to lose your way.
Date: November 2013
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline (open access)

Appendix G: Contingency Plan Outline

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. In this appendix, the policy statements address the general requirements and procedures related to the enactment and handling of the MetaArchive Contingency Plan.
Date: November 9, 2011
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Are print books REALLY dead?

This poster describes a study of e-book usage using the Unified Theory of Acceptance and Use of Technology (UTAUT) and Technology Acceptances Model (TAM).
Date: November 3, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson; Smith, Susan; Miller, Erin & Billings, Emily
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Are print books REALLY dead? Exploring the relationship between technology acceptance and the use of e-books at a large research university

This presentation discusses a study of undergraduate students at the University of North Texas to understand factors related to students' intent to use and actual use of e-books.
Date: November 21, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson; Billings, Emily & Smith, Susan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Balancing Scholarly Activities, Primary Assignments and Service to the Community

Presentation for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries as part of the career development program. This presentation discusses getting started on a research project and balancing scholarly activities, primary assignments, and service to the community.
Date: November 19, 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Wahl, Diane
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Becoming the Storm (open access)

Becoming the Storm

Text of the keynote address delivered during the University of North Texas Lavender Graduation at the end of the Fall 2015 semester.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Book History Meets 3D: The 3Dhotbed Project

This presentation is an overview of the 3Dhotbed Project that seeks to enhance book history instruction by providing access to affordable teaching tools and related materials for pedagogical purposes. It was presented at the Born to Be 3D: Digital Stewardship of Intrinsic 3D Data conference held by the Library of Congress on November 2, 2018.
Date: November 2, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Jacobs, Courtney E. & O'Sullivan, Kevin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Case for a Publishing Analytics Data Alliance

This presentation discusses Project Meerkat, a project aimed “to develop guidelines and standards for digital scholarly monograph usage data and to construct a neutral organizational apparatus for the ongoing collection and aggregation of data about these scholarly publications,” and the resulting cooperative to be developed out of that project, the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.
Date: November 21, 2016
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Global Economics

Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of global economics.
Date: November 14, 2022
Creator: Harker, Karen; Byrne, Sephra & Obaidullah, Sharif
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Community Newspaper Preservation: One page at a time

Presented at the 2017 International Digital Preservation Day. This presentation discusses the preservation of the Aransas Pass Progress newspaper prior to Hurricane Harvey.
Date: November 30, 2017
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating a Local Usage Collection System: PySUSHI

Presentation discussing the design and implementation of a built-in-house usage collection system for electronic resource usage via release 4 and release 5 of the SUSHI protocol, as well as the design and integration of additional modules for the loading of manually downloaded COUNTER reports.
Date: 2021-11-01/2021-11-04
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Harker, Karen & Byrne, Sephra
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating a Successful Single Service Point for Circulation and Reference in an Academic Library

Presentation for the 2013 Access Services Annual Conference. This presentation discusses creating a successful single service point for circulation and reference in an academic library.
Date: November 8, 2013
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann & Hardikar, Bethany
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criminology Collection Evaluation Report (open access)

Criminology Collection Evaluation Report

This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Criminology collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
Date: November 15, 2021
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cultivating Cooperation: Creating the Vendor Reciprocity Scale

Presentation on the development of a Vendor Reciprocity Scale (VRS) by the University of North Texas Libraries as a way to download institutional knowledge of patterns of vendor behavior, and the presentation encouraged thoughtful and productive discussion on our collective knowledge surrounding best practices in business partnerships and negotiations as a way to help refine the VRS.
Date: November 8, 2023
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson; Dawson, Jill; Peebles, Emily & Sterling, Jennifer
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

CyberCemetery

A presentation that was given at the Web Archiving Texas (WATx) 2019 meeting held at Baylor University in Waco, Texas. This presentation discusses the CyberCemetery, a web archive of defunct federal websites hosted by the UNT Libraries.
Date: November 6, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Data-Driven Decision-Making and Its Impacts on Education Quality in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review (open access)

Data-Driven Decision-Making and Its Impacts on Education Quality in Developing Countries: A Systematic Review

Article describes how data-driven decision-making (DDDM) technologies are increasingly being utilized, aiming to enhance education quality. Authors assert that this paper examines articles that explore the implementation of DDDM technologies and their effects on education quality.
Date: November 6, 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Asfaw, Zelalem & Jimma, Worku
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
A data trust for industry data sharing (open access)

A data trust for industry data sharing

This is a portion of a report, Building a Trusted Framework for Coordinating OA Monograph Usage Data, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to study the landscape of usage for open-access scholarly monographs and investigate the viability of creating a data trust for sharing usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem.
Date: November 2018
Creator: Suzor, Nic; Gray, Joanne Elizabeth; Neylon, Cameron; Montgomery, Lucy; Ozaygen, Alkim; Hawkins, Kevin S. et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Demographic Trends of College Students Today & Tomorrow: How Do We Entice Them to Use the Academic Library? (open access)

Demographic Trends of College Students Today & Tomorrow: How Do We Entice Them to Use the Academic Library?

This article discusses how libraries can use demographic trends to tailor library services to future populations.
Date: November 4, 2011
Creator: Bloechle, Marie & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto (open access)

The Denton Declaration: An Open Data Manifesto

Paper included in a report for the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR) on research data management and the DataRes Project. This section reports on The Denton Declaration. Abstract: On May 22, 2012, at the University of North Texas, a group of technologists and librarians, scholars and researchers, university administrators, and other stakeholders gathered to discuss and articulate best practices and emerging trends in research data management. This declaration bridges the converging interests of these stakeholders and promotes collaboration, transparency, and accountability across organizational and disciplinary boundaries.
Date: November 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Curation: Curation Micro-services approach to Building Repositories

This presentation discusses digital curation, preservation and stewardship. The author provides information on Curation Micro-Services.
Date: November 8, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: University Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories (open access)

Documenting Times of Difficulty and Crisis: University Case Study of Leveraging an App to Gather University Community Memories

Conference paper examining the deployment of The Keeper App, developed at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries, to help students document their daily lives as members of the UNT campus community. Deployed one year before the COVID-19 pandemic hit the world, the Keeper App soon became a means for students and other members of the UNT community to share their experiences from isolation during the time of crisis.
Date: November 3, 2023
Creator: Gieringer, Morgan Davis; Phillips, Mark Edward & Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions (open access)

Effectiveness of a Community Health Worker as Sole Diabetes Educator: Comparison of CoDE with Similar Culturally Appropriate Interventions

Article discussing the effectiveness of a community health worker as sole diabetes educator.
Date: November 4, 2008
Creator: Culica, Dan; Walton, James W.; Harker, Karen & Prezio, Elizabeth A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Escape/Breakout Room for Juvenile Collection

Presentation of on the development of a virtual escape/breakout room by librarians at UNT to increase visibility and knowledge of the juvenile collection. This presentation provides a framework for content creation and lessons learned. It was presented at the 2022 Brick & Click Conference held on November 4, 2022.
Date: November 4, 2022
Creator: Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library