Gender and authorship in The Indexer, 1958-2007 (open access)

Gender and authorship in The Indexer, 1958-2007

Article on gender and authorship in The Indexer from 1958 through 2007.
Date: December 2009
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

My InfoQuest and the Handheld Librarian

This presentation discusses My InfoQuest, a service that lets you text a question to a librarian and receive a quick response on your mobile device.
Date: October 24, 2009
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History

This presentation presents information about The Portal to Texas History, a digital gateway to cultural heritage collections in Texas. This presentation discusses the IOGENE project, the research processes involved in developing The Portal to Texas History, the research with genealogists, and shows illustrations of the contents of The Portal to Texas History.
Date: October 24, 2009
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative (open access)

Comparison of Strategies and Policies for Building Distributed Digital Preservation Infrastructure: Initial Findings from the MetaArchive Cooperative

This article offers a comparison of strategies and policies for building distributed digital preservation infrastructure.
Date: October 15, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quality Assurance Tests: Release 2 Summary Test Results, October 2009 (open access)

Quality Assurance Tests: Release 2 Summary Test Results, October 2009

This report discusses the key findings of the quality assurance testing conducted by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. These tests are part of a two-year project to identify the user interface requirements of genealogists interacting with the Libraries' Portal to Texas History. This report discusses tests conducted by 22 members of the ITS and DPU staff between September 28 through October 1, 2009.
Date: October 2009
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Science Fair and Beyond: Selecting Excellent Science Books for Children and Teens

This presentation attempts to answer the research question: "What percentage of parents do their children's science fair projects for them?" It also discusses about selection tools for finding useful science books.
Date: August 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Harvesting in Support of Faculty Research and Environmental Science Digital Library Development

This poster presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' process for harvesting web materials and creating a digital library collection with the data obtained.
Date: July 13, 2009
Creator: Hall, Nathan
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Breaking Down the Costs - What are Your Digitization Projects Really Costing?

This presentation discusses the costs and values of digital collections. It looks at the digital collections held at the University of North Texas (UNT) and does a cost comparison of the options based on their choices including the expenses that are related to building their digital collections.
Date: July 10, 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Portal to Texas History: Baseline Survey Results, June 2009 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Portal to Texas History: Baseline Survey Results, June 2009

This report discusses the questionnaire for the IOGENE Project. From September 26, 2008 through June 26, 2009, an online survey questionnaire captured both demographic data from Portal visitors as well as their opinions regarding the utility of the Portal and their satisfaction with it. The objective of this data collection effort was twofold: to characterize Portal users and to establish baseline measurements for user satisfaction. The survey will be repeated following each of two planned releases of the redesigned Portal, one in the summer of 2009 and the second in the fall of 2009. Comparison of future survey results to the baseline results reported in this paper will be one gauge of the success of the IOGENE project.
Date: June 29, 2009
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

Paper contributed to the 2009 International Symposium on Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing ETD collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Getting ETDs off the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing ETD Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks [Presentation]

This presentation addresses "Calf-Path" problems for Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) repositories, problems associated with the early ad hoc and idiosyncratic workflow patterns. This presentation also documents relatively simple principles and guidelines for such ETD programs that can greatly improve the subsequent likelihood of implementing successful distributed digital preservation programs.
Date: June 11, 2009
Creator: McMillan, Gail & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, July 2009 (open access)

Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework: Interim Performance Report, July 2009

This report is the third interim performance report for the project titled: Optimizing the User Experience in a Rapid Development Framework. The reporting period is January 1, 2009 through June 30, 2009. The report includes three sections: Goals and Accomplishments, Significant Findings and Accomplishments, and Project Achievements and Lessons Learned.
Date: June 2009
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Quality Assurance Tests: Release 1 Summary Test Results, June 2009 (open access)

Quality Assurance Tests: Release 1 Summary Test Results, June 2009

This report contains summaries of the results of two tests given as part of the IOGENE project. The IOGENE project involves genealogists in the design process of the redesigned Portal interface. The first test in this report was conducted from April 6 through April 9, 2009. The second test in this report was conducted from June 1 - June 4, 2009.
Date: June 2009
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Development for an Environmental Science Digital Library

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' strategies for creating digital collections and services from datasets and born digital objects and serving users outside of formal education and research.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Hall, Nathan
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Repository 2.0: Lessons Learned and Applied

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit and how the system and software to create digital collections was developed. It also discusses the future plans for system and software changes in the Digital Projects Unit.
Date: May 27, 2009
Creator: Nordstrom, Kurt & Fredericks, Brandon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study (open access)

Barriers to Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions: An Exploratory Study

Paper for the 2009 IS&T Archiving Conference. This paper discusses an exploratory study on barriers to adopting PREMIS in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: May 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata to fit your needs... How much is too much?

This presentation briefly introduces the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and their mission. It explains the structure of the Digital Projects Unit having the Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History, and discusses their metadata structure and its role in Digital Projects.
Date: March 16, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preserving Our Collective Digital History

This presentation introduces the mission and the roles of the departments in the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and focuses on the infrastructure of the Digital Projects Unit.
Date: March 11, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Ode to Controlled Vocabulary (open access)

Ode to Controlled Vocabulary

This poem pays homage to controlled vocabularies. It describes the importance of using controlled vocabularies and why they should be respected and utilized.
Date: March 2009
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Poem
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitization Workflows From the Digital Projects Unit University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives a basic outline of the work flow and processes involved within the Digital Projects Unit. Topics include scanning, digital preservation, and staffing.
Date: February 12, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Moore, Jeremy D.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives.
Date: January 28, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Your Local Public Library (open access)

Collaborating with Your Local Public Library

This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hoffman, Starr; Downey, Annie & Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library