Bibliography of resources related to Zen Librarianship. It is a supplementary resource to a poster presented at the Texas Library Association Conference held April 19-22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.

Presentation on creating a Praxis of Zen Librarianship which frames reference and research assistance practices in academic libraries with theory and contemplative methodologies. It is a supplementary resource to a poster presented at the Texas Library Association Conference held April 19-22, 2017 in San Antonio, TX.

This presentation reviews the University of North Texas approach to revamp the philosophy for, and means of supporting, subject librarians as they provide library services to the university community. Crafting a new philosophy of liaison librarianship can be both an exciting and a daunting process. New models of service have emerged that offer exciting opportunities to improve librarian skill sets, clarify expectations of subject librarians, standardize assessment of liaisons, and identify a variety of strategies for providing liaison services.

In January 2011, the University of North Texas Libraries installed two Hitachi StarBoards in the new Collaboration and Learning Commons of the Eagle Commons Library for patrons to use independently. This presentation reports preliminary findings from a web survey on students use of smart technologies and interactive whiteboards at the University of North Texas Libraries.

Panel presentation for The Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS-2019). The panel brings together diverse stakeholders and explored the current landscape shaping the future of information, language and power in a global and digital world. The combined presentation slides offer summary of panelists' perspectives on partnership, interdiciplinarity, new challenges, as well as new opportunities for LIS research.

Presentation for The Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS-2019). This presentation discusses UNT Libraries’ experience in collaborating with UNT's College of Information (COI) faculty members and providing a real world environment for COI students to practically experience the intersection of people, technology, and information. The presentation highlights the benefits of UNT’s Libraries’ local, state-wide, national, and international projects, ranging from harvesting UNT websites, to the Texas Register archive established through a partnership with the Office of the Texas Secretary of State, to the End-of-Term Presidential Harvest (EOT) and International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC), a global network of experts archiving the web for future generations. All these active and ongoing high profile projects provide a wealth of data and research questions to be investigated.

Presentation for The Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS-2019). This presentation discusses a user study designed to gather perspectives on the digitization and representation of scrapbooks online.

Presentation for the Texas Library Association (TLA- 2019) conference, sponsored by The Texas Association of School Librarians (TASL) Division. This presentation discusses about the available cataloging tools and resources with particular emphasis for School Librarians.

Presentation for the 2019 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the use of digital primary resources for undergraduate instruction.

Presentation for the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) Spring 2019 Membership Meeting. The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for the sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the work of the Texas Digital Library (TDL) Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) Metadata Working Group, resources for preparing data, and the experiences of the Houston Public Library.

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the development and results of a usability study to understand how users navigate The Portal to Texas History.

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This panel presentation provides experiences with Tableau and other visualizations for library assessment purposes.

Presentation for the 2018 Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium. This presentation discusses emerging trends for digital libraries and argues that indexing and abstracting services are still on the path to rediscovering and effectively accessing knowledge in the digital era.

Presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This presentation reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference for the Cataloging and Metadata Round Table. This presentation covers descriptive cataloging, subject headings and genre terms for makerspace materials. The presentation refers to two supplemental documents: "Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials" and "LCSH for Makerspace Activities".

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Women in Higher Education Annual Conference. This presentation discusses fear of negative evaluation (FNE), including perceptions of FNE and ways to overcome it.

Presented at the 2017 Day of Digital Humanities. This presentation provides an overview of the 3Dhotbed project to extend bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing.

Presentation for the UNT Music Library 75th Anniversary Symposium. This presentation discusses the education and training of the UNT Music Library's student workers.

This presentation provides an overview of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and includes examples of digital humanities projects utilizing the program.

Presented at the 2017 Digital Public Library of America (DPLA)Fest Conference. This lightning round presentation shares the results of a web survey of DPLA partners' methods and representation practices of scrapbooks and plans for usability studies.

Presented at the Coalition of Networked Information (CNI) 2010 Spring Forum. This presentation presents findings from collaborative preservation projects undertaken by the MetaArchive Cooperative and the University of North Texas.

Presentation for the 2017 meeting of the IMLS Shareable Authorities Forum. This presentation provides an in-depth look at institutional practices regarding authorities at University of North Texas Libraries.

This presentation discusses the methodology and preliminary results of two usability studies – one on online video, and one on ebooks.