Welcoming Families to the Academic Library: Lessons Learned Supporting Student-Parents

Presentation discussing the development of an inclusive and supportive environment for student-parents by Access Services at the University of North Texas Libraries. This presentation will discuss the challenges encountered during the implementation of these initiatives, including the lack of attendance and engagement with the target audience.
Date: January 20, 2024
Creator: Brents, Madison & Akers, Emily
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Computer Science & Computer Engineering

Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of computer science and computer engineering. This collection analysis was focused on the use, age, growth, and gaps of the material relevant to these programs.
Date: January 12, 2024
Creator: Harker, Karen; Byrne, Sephra & Irhamni
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collection Evaluation for Enhancements: Geography & The Environment

Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of geography and the environment.
Date: January 9, 2023
Creator: Harker, Karen; Byrne, Sephra & Obaidullah, Sharif
System: The UNT Digital Library

Library Collection Development: Core Principles, Key Approaches, & Best Practices

This presentation provides an overview of collection development practices. It includes information about the core principles of collection development, ethics, and key approaches to developing a library's collection.
Date: January 26, 2022
Creator: Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Access and Scholarly Communication

This presentation covers the background and definition, stakeholder roles, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities, and current/emerging trends in Open Access and Scholarly Communication.
Date: January 2, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Steps for Academic Success via Library Resources and Services

Presentation for the North Texas Community College Consortium Spring Leadership Conference. This presentation highlights library resources and services available for community colleges.
Date: January 25, 2019
Creator: Monahan, Jo
System: The UNT Digital Library

Childhood Studies at the Digital Turn

This presentation from the Modern Language Association 2017 panel "Keep the H in DH" examines the parallel emerging fields of digital humanities and literary childhood studies.
Date: January 6, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Owning Your Labor Is A Skill

This presentation from the Modern Language Association 2017 panel "Digital Humanities in Secondary Education" offers a look at the ethical implications of bringing digital humanities praxis to secondary education.
Date: January 8, 2017
Creator: Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library

A For-Fee Scholarly Publishing Service Based in the Library

Slides from a presentation to the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Scholarly Communications Interest Group at the 2015 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting. This presentation discusses a for-fee scholarly publishing service based in the library.
Date: January 31, 2015
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Blow the Curtain Open": How Gene Hall and Leon Breeden Advanced the Legitimacy of Jazz in Music Education [Presentation]

Presentation for the Jazz Education Network Fifth Annual Conference. This presentation discusses how Gene Hall and Leon Breeden advanced the legitimacy of jazz in music education.
Date: January 11, 2014
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Libraries Division

Presentation for the UNT Libraries Dean's Coffee. This presentation offers updates and information on the Digital Libraries Division.
Date: January 21, 2014
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Cleaning up Messy Data with Open Refine

This Tech Talk presentation discusses the open source software OpenRefine and strategies for cleaning up messy data.
Date: January 29, 2014
Creator: Najmi, Anjum & Keralis, Spencer D. C.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Shared Metadata for Regional Landmarks: Building Names

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Special Collections Affinity Group meeting. This presentation discusses dealing with building names in digital collections.
Date: January 29, 2014
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

Creating A Featured Book Display: Marrying old and new technologies

This Tech Talk presentation describes the process used to select the individual works and the inspiration behind the solution to the problem - a physical representation of a digital object.
Date: January 30, 2013
Creator: Diehl, Melissa & Reese, Patricia
System: The UNT Digital Library

National Gaming Day: Planning a successful gaming event

This presentation discusses the American Library Association's (ALA's) National Gaming Day @ your library, a fairly new event created to promote the "educational, recreational, and social value of all types of games". The University of North Texas (UNT) Library has participated for two years and has organized their event to offer fun along with a focus on research and development opportunities available for people interested in all aspects of gaming. In this presentation, the authors detail the planning and organization of National Gaming Day at an academic library.
Date: January 2012
Creator: Robson, Diane & Ross, Bethany
System: The UNT Digital Library

Supporting Faculty Scholarly Activity

This presentation is part of a panel discussion titled Academic Libraries as Partners in Research. This presentation discusses how digital libraries can support faculty scholarly activity, with examples and strategies from the UNT Digital Library collections.
Date: January 21, 2012
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library

"Good" Digital Collections

This Tech Talks presentation covers the principles that apply to "good" digital collections and analyzes how objects, metadata, and the user interface together create the users' experience of a collection.
Date: January 27, 2010
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

OAI-ORE

This Tech Talk presentation discusses how the Open Archive Initiative (OAI) and the Object Reuse and Exchange (ORE) are used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library. OAI-ORE define the standards for the description and exchange of aggregations of Web resources.
Date: January 20, 2010
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
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
System: The UNT Digital Library