Presentation for the 2008 Depository Library Council Annual Meeting. This presentation outlines the history, tool building, partner activities and future work for a collaborative project between the University of North Texas, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the California Digital Library, and the U.S. Government Printing Office.

Article discussing archiving web-published materials and a needs assessment of librarians, researchers, and content providers.

This paper discusses assessment in library instruction programs.

This presentation is about the steps followed in the development of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Library infrastructure, the lessons learned along the way, and the opportunities that are available today.

Document summarizing surveys conducted for the IOGENE project. It relates to information about the user interface of The Portal to Texas History.

This presentation discusses The Portal to Texas History and how collaborations with other organizations has helped add to the collection. In this presentation, the author illustrates examples from The Portal to Texas History with information about metadata management, quality issues, and the automated systems in place by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.

Presentation for the 2008 Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States (SEAMUS) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses collaborations and how Vladimir Ussachevsky interacted with other composers in the creation of electronic music.

Article on connecting constituents to government information and 150 years of congressionally designated libraries.

This presentation discusses the costs and benefits associated with creating the metadata and ensuring metadata quality in The Portal to Texas History.

This article discusses collection development practices to meet the unique characteristics of Web-published materials.

This presentation discusses collaboration between the reference and circulation departments as a means to improve the library experience for distance education patrons in an academic library. The two authors give perspectives from the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.

Article discussing the effectiveness of a community health worker as sole diabetes educator.

Study investigating electromagnetic effects among near-death experiencers (NDErs), people who reported a close brush with death without an NDE, and people who reported never having been close to death but who used their most life-changing event as a past reference point.

This presentation is about a workshop for high school students. The workshop focused on preservation and how it relates to the study of history.

This presentation illustrates examples of items held in The Portal to Texas History collection and how these works contribute to learning about the history of the Texas Revolution.

This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 20th Annual Juried members Exhibition.

This Tech Talk presentation explores Folksonomy. The author explores some of the more common aspects of folksonomies in the context of Web 2.0.

Article on the geographic distribution of authors in The Indexer from 1988 through 2007.

Article on e-government services and how libraries can provide helpful online government resources.

In this presentation, the author defines Folksonomy and the advantages and disadvantages of Folksonomy. He begins with a background on information retrieval and changing technologies, discusses trends in technologies, and explains the use of tags and Folksonomy.

This report contains information from the Spring 2008 pilot administration of the LibQUAL+® Lite protocol at University of North Texas Libraries. The goal of LibQUAL+® Lite is to measure user satisfaction in the same valid matter as the original LibQUAL+® protocol while using only a subset (8 items) of the orginal 22 core items.

These grant materials were prepared for the National Digital Newspaper Program, a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to provide access to historic American Newspapers. The Library of Congress serves as the technical adviser for the NDNP. The Award funded digitization of Texas historical newspapers. For the grant, UNT served as the lead institution and partnered with the Center for American History at the University of Texas. This proposal was funded for $399,790.

Book chapter on maintaining quality metadata and effective digital resource lifecycle management.

This presentation discusses the critical issues of metadata quality in digital libraries and describes the efforts being made by the University of North Texas Libraries to ensure metadata quality at various levels of digital resources' life cycle.