TxETDA 2012 Opening Remarks

Presentation with opening remarks for the 2012 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (TxETD) Annual Conference.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Searching Metadata

Poster presented at the 2012 Texas Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs) Annual Conference. This poster discusses information discovery and strategies for creating consistency in metadata schemas.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Oyarce, Guillermo A.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation (open access)

A preliminary evaluation of metadata records machine translation

Article discussing a preliminary evaluation study of metadata records machine translation. This study evaluates freely available machine translation (MT) services' performance in translating metadata records.
Date: 2012
Creator: Chen, Jiangping; Ding, Ren; Jiang, Shan & Knudson, Ryan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
"Genomics and Translational Medicine for Information Professionals:" an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians (open access)

"Genomics and Translational Medicine for Information Professionals:" an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians

This article discusses an innovative course to educate the next generation of librarians and meet the demands of the changing health information environment.
Date: October 2012
Creator: Cleveland, Ana D., 1943-; Holmes, Kristi L. & Philbrick, Jodi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play (open access)

Learning and teaching as communicative actions: Improving historical knowledge and cognition through Second Life avatar role play

This article examines a higher education history course where virtual role play was implemented as an assignment.
Date: 2012
Creator: Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warren, Scott J.; Rankin, Monica A.; Mills, Leila A. & Gratch, Jonathan S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Collaborate: The Art of We (open access)

[Review] Collaborate: The Art of We

This article reviews the book "Collaborate: The Art of We," by Dan Sanker, published in 2012.
Date: 2012
Creator: Joshua-Gojer, Ashwini Esther
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices (open access)

[Review] Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices

This article reviews the book "Social Media for Educators: Strategies and Best Practices," by Tanya Joosten and published in 2012.
Date: 2012
Creator: Pasquini, Laura A.
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea (open access)

The Development and Assessment of an Instrument for Measuring Mental Model Styles in Korea

This article discusses a research study on the development and assessment of an instrument for measuring mental model styles in Korea.
Date: 2012
Creator: Chermack, Thomas J.; Song, Ji Hoon; Nimon, Kim F.; Choi, Myungweon & Korte, Russel F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates (open access)

Cross-Cultural Training and Success Versus Failure of Expatriates

Article discussing cross-cultural training and the success versus failure of expatriates.
Date: 2012
Creator: Joshua-Gojer, Ashwini Esther
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Subject of Learning and Performance (open access)

The Subject of Learning and Performance

This editorial article discusses the inaugural issue of the Learning and Performance Quarterly (LPQ) open access journal. This editorial offers a welcome and introduction to the first issue.
Date: 2012
Creator: Pasquini, Laura A. & Allen, Jeff M.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Leadership, Training, Mentoring, and Instructional Design (open access)

Leadership, Training, Mentoring, and Instructional Design

Editorial article for the second issue of Learning and Performance Quarterly. In this piece, the author describes the second issue and the overall focus on leadership, training, mentoring and instructional design.
Date: 2012
Creator: Pasquini, Laura A.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Support for Research Data Management among U.S. Academic Institutions: Results from a National Survey (open access)

Support for Research Data Management among U.S. Academic Institutions: Results from a National Survey

Report on survey results on research data management among United States academic institutions.
Date: January 26, 2012
Creator: Moen, William E. & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cataloger Tasks: Work In Progress

This presentation discusses cataloging tasks, including Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR), Functional Requirements for Authority Data (FRAD), Functional Requirements for Subject Authority Data (FRSAD), and concepts related to the tasks and decisions involved in cataloging.
Date: January 20, 2012
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Professional Learning Communities & Personal Learning Networks in Information Science

This presentation is part of a Doctoral Student Special Interest Group (SIG) panel discussion group from the 2012 Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE). Doctoral students discuss various ways to keep up with changes in information science and technology through developing professional learning communities.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Hill, Valerie; Bartoletti, Robin; Helge, Kris & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Preliminary Literature Review of Visual Information Accessibility for Blind and Visually Impaired Individuals

Poster discussing a preliminary literature review of visual information accessibility for blind and visually impaired individuals.
Date: January 17, 2012
Creator: McCotter, Melody
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

iCAMP: Curate, Archive, Manage, Preserve

This presentation discusses the iCAMP project. The UNT College of Information's iCAMP project, funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), is developing a four course, competency-based, online graduate academic certificate program in data curation and data management for a hybrid audience of information professionals and disciplinary researchers and scholars. This presentation gives an overview of the iCAMP project and its development.
Date: April 2012
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies (open access)

Five-Picture Charades: A Flexible Model for Technology Training in Digital Media Tools and Teaching Strategies

This article presents Five-Picture Charades, an instructional activity designed to introduce preservice and in-service teachers to the technical and pedagogical uses of digital images in the classroom.
Date: 2012
Creator: Alexander, Curby & Hammond, Thomas C.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review (open access)

Statistical assumptions of substantive analyses across the general linear model: a mini-review

This article seeks to support researchers by concisely reviewing key statistical assumptions associated with substantive statistical tests across the general linear model. Additionally, the article reviews techniques to check for statistical assumptions and identifies remedies and problems if data do not meet the necessary assumptions.
Date: August 28, 2012
Creator: Nimon, Kim F.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tools to support interpreting multiple regression in the face of multicollilnearity (open access)

Tools to support interpreting multiple regression in the face of multicollilnearity

This article argues that rather than using one technique to investigate regression results, researchers should consider multiple indices to understand the contributions that predictors make not only to a regression model, but to each other as well.
Date: March 14, 2012
Creator: Kraha, Amanda; Turner, Heather; Nimon, Kim F.; Zientek, Linda Reichwein & Henson, Robin K.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries (open access)

Collaboration and Crowdsourcing: The Cases of Multilingual Digital Libraries

Article discussing research on collaboration and crowdsourcing. The purpose of the study is to understand existing multilingual digital libraries and to suggest strategies for building and sustaining multilingual digital libraries.
Date: 2012
Creator: Budzise-Weaver, Tina; Chen, Jiangping & Mitchell, Mikhaela
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

iCAMP: Building Digital Information Curation Curriculum [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2012 International iConference. This poster discusses building digital information curation curriculum, as part of the iCAMP project.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Moen, William E.; Kim, Jeonghyun; Warga, Edward; Wakefield, Jenny S. & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Curation and Data Management Capacity Building: Curricula and Workforce

Poster presented at the 2012 ALISE Annual Conference. This poster discusses digital curation and data management capacity building, as part of the iCAMP project.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Moen, William E.; Whitworth, Cliff; Wakefield, Jenny S.; Warga, Edward; Helsing, Joseph et al.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Libraries and the Research Enterprise: A View from a LIS Educator/Researcher

This presentation is part of a panel discussion titled "Academic Libraries as Partners in Research." This presentation discusses libraries, research, and collaboration, with examples and strategies from the point-of-view of a Library and Information Science (LIS) educator and researcher.
Date: January 21, 2012
Creator: Moen, William E.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Social Tagging Bibliography (open access)

Social Tagging Bibliography

This document is an extensive, but not comprehensive, bibliography of articles pertaining to social tagging and library catalogs between 2006-2012, mostly peer-reviewed sources, arranged chronologically.
Date: April 17, 2012
Creator: Miksa, Shawne D., 1969-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library