2012 Presidential Primaries

This poster introduces the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on the 2012 Presidential Primaries. This series features Dr. Tony Carey, assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, Dr. Matthew Eshbaugh-Soha, associate professor in the Department of Political Science, and Dr. Brian Lain, associate professor in the Department of Communications Studies and director of UNT's Debate Program.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Mondragon-Becker, Antonio
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
After-math: Counting the Aftereffects of Potentially Spiritually Transformative Experiences (open access)

After-math: Counting the Aftereffects of Potentially Spiritually Transformative Experiences

Abstract: This article provides a summary of current literature regarding the nature of spiritual development, types of potentially spiritually transformative experiences (pSTEs), and both short- and long-term aftereffects of pSTEs— biological, psychological, spiritual, and social. The author concludes that in the aftermath of pSTEs, experiencers, their intimates and associates, and their healthcare providers should be prepared to experience integration that can be manageable or be deeply challenging and that can be relatively brief or can last for years.
Date: Winter 2012
Creator: Holden, Janice Miner
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Society for Indexing Conferences: An Analysis of Major Topics, 1997-2011 (open access)

American Society for Indexing Conferences: An Analysis of Major Topics, 1997-2011

Article offering an analysis of major topics at the American Society for Indexing Conferences from 1997 through 2011.
Date: 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix A: Preservation Business Model (open access)

Appendix A: Preservation Business Model

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix includes the 2010-2013 Strategic Plan which highlights the Educopia institute's strengths and achievements to date and details the strategic planning process. Specifically this strategic plan declares Educopia institute's: Mission statement, Vision, Three Critical Challenges, and Six Programmatic Goals (with objectives and strategies).
Date: March 13, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer (open access)

Appendix B: MetaArchive-SRB Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document is a report on the status of a two-phase transfer test being carried out between the MetaArchive Cooperative and Chronopolis. These tests aim to demonstrate a proof-of-concept that the MetaArchive network may use Chronopolis's data grid preservation service as an exit strategy in the event that either MetaArchive or LOCKSS becomes unsustainable in the future.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep (open access)

Appendix C: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer Prep

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes the preparation of archival units residing on a LOCKSS file system that have been designated for packaging and exchange with a non-LOCKSS-based preservation environment-in this case an iRODS grid-based environment.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool (open access)

Appendix D: LOCKSSBAGGER Tool

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes tools. These tools are designed to facilitate the transfer of data contained within a number of LOCKSS archival units and packaged into bags. The bags are then transferred to the iRODS grid. The user has the option of creating and sending filled bags, or holey bags. The primary tools are written in Python, and make use of the iRODS command line utilities for data transfer.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer (open access)

Appendix E: MetaArchive-iRODS Transfer

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. This appendix document describes an automation process that involved the sending of a Folger Shakespeare Library collection (246 archival units measuring 1.3TB) hosted on a University of North Texas (UNT) LOCKSS cache to a storage resource hosted by Chronopolis at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC).
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices (open access)

Appendix F: MetaArchive Microservices

This is an appendix to the MetaArchive Final Report. The purpose of this document is to explain the PREMIS Event microservice as prototyped for the MetaArchive Cooperative, primarily from a developer's standpoint. The document will attempt to explain the purpose of the microservice, the underlying principles on which it operates, and a practical example of its usage. The MetaArchive has installed all of the components needed to deploy this microservice and looks forward to opportunities to experiment with practical implementations in future development projects.
Date: March 9, 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Hartman, Cathy Nelson; Skinner, Katherine; Walters, Tyler & Schultz, Matt
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Are We There Yet? Toward a Workable Controlled Vocabulary for Music (open access)

Are We There Yet? Toward a Workable Controlled Vocabulary for Music

This article discusses moving toward a workable controlled vocabulary for music.
Date: July 2012
Creator: McKnight, Mark, 1951-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012 (open access)

ASI conference presentations: a content analysis of major topics, 1997-2012

Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.
Date: December 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

ASIS&T Special Interest Groups (SIGs): New Member/First Conference Brunch 2012

Presentation for the 2012 American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting. This presentation introduces new members and conference attendees to the Special Interest Group, International Information Issues (SIG-III).
Date: October 28, 2012
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bibliography for "Fostering a Culture of Research and Publication in Academic Libraries" (open access)

Bibliography for "Fostering a Culture of Research and Publication in Academic Libraries"

This bibliography accompanies a presentation for the 2013 Library Management Institute Summer Conference. This bibliography contains citations for information related to fostering a culture of research and publications in academic libraries.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Wahl, Diane
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Biography indexes reviewed (open access)

Biography indexes reviewed

Article discussing research on biography reviews and indexes.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Book Review: Texts Related to Survival of Consciousness (open access)

Book Review: Texts Related to Survival of Consciousness

Review outlining the various range of scholarly and non-scholarly characterizations regarding the survival of human consciousness after death by analyzing four books on the topic: "Science and the Near-Death Experience: How Consciousness Survives Death" (Chris Carter); "The Fun of Dying: Find Out What Really Happens Next!" (Roberta Grimes); "The Science of Life after Death: New Research Shows Human Consciousness Lives On" (Stephen Hawley Martin); and "There is Life after Death: Compelling Reports from Those Who Have Glimpsed the Afterlife" (Roy Abraham Varghese).
Date: Spring 2012
Creator: Kinsey, Lee
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library

Book Reviews in an Electronic Age

Poster presented at the 2012 IAMSLIC Annual Conference. This poster discusses research on book reviews in marine and aquatic journals to gain insight into the characteristics of the reviews and their value to librarians and research.
Date: August 2012
Creator: Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler; Heil, Kathy & Wiest, Natalie H., 1948-
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Briefing the Case: Constitution Day Outreach to Campus and Community (open access)

Briefing the Case: Constitution Day Outreach to Campus and Community

Article discussing Constitution Day outreach to campuses and communities.
Date: 2012
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Building a Better Librarian: Why Your Work As A Librarian Begins LONG Before Your Graduate Program (open access)

Building a Better Librarian: Why Your Work As A Librarian Begins LONG Before Your Graduate Program

This articles discusses why ones work as a librarian begins long before their graduate program.
Date: July 2012
Creator: Jacobs, Courtney E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA (open access)

Cataloguing in 2012: On The Cusp Of RDA

This article discusses changes in music cataloguing systems.
Date: September 2012
Creator: Harden, Jean, 1948-
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Chronicles in Preservation: Curation Practices for Born-Digital and Digitized Newspaper Collections

This presentation discusses the Chronicles in Preservation project. This project aims to study, document, and model the use of data preparation practices and distributed digital preservation frameworks to collaboratively preserve digitized and born-digital newspaper collections. This presentation gives the background of the Chronicles in Preservation project, the State of the Field report, and early findings.
Date: April 3, 2012
Creator: Skinner, Katherine; Halbert, Martin & Walters, Tyler
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Chronicles in Preservation Project (open access)

Chronicles in Preservation Project

Paper for the 2012 International iConference. This paper discusses the chronicles in preservation project.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Halbert, Martin & Skinner, Katherine
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Classifying the End-of-Term Archive (open access)

Classifying the End-of-Term Archive

This paper discusses the Classification of the End-of-Term Archive project.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Classifying the End of Term Web Archive [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2012 IS&T Archiving Conference. This poster discusses a research project on classifying the End-of-Term Archive. This Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) funded research project investigates whether link analysis and cluster analysis were effective techniques for classifying the materials in the End-of-Term archive to improve discovery.
Date: June 2012
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborating in Tough Times: Responding to State Cuts

This presentation was for a panel session with librarians from school, public, academic, and the North Texas Library Partners (NTLP) at the Texas Library Association (TLA) annual conference. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaboration strategies during difficult financial periods and funding cuts.
Date: April 18, 2012
Creator: LaBoon, Jennifer D.; Ewell, Lana; Sears, Suzanne; Leuzinger, Julie & Wright, Adam
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library