Filling the Gap: A Focus on Accessibility and Curriculum in Equipment Lending

Presentation discussing the steps taken to create a new circulating collection of equipment items, from needs assessment and item selection to circulation and promotion. Best practices for cataloging, circulation, and item storage will be discussed. Presenters share a LibGuide created to enhance the discoverability of the collection and discuss decisions made about content and format. The presenters also highlight project successes, as well as some of the challenges faced and lessons learned. It was presented at the 2022 Access Services Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia.
Date: November 16, 2022
Creator: Knox, Briana & Akers, Emily
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Digital Primary Resources in Instruction: Developing Digital Scholarship with Undergraduate Researchers

Presentation for the 2019 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the use of digital primary resources for undergraduate instruction.
Date: April 16, 2019
Creator: Stayton, Jennifer
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Serenity Now! Overcoming the Fear of Negative Evaluation

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.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Brannon, Sian; Crawford, Laurel & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Investigations Into Using Machine Learning Models to Automate the Sorting of Digitized Texas State Publications.

This poster highlighting the development of machine learning model to automate part of the process of digitizing and archiving documents from the Texas State Depository Program. This particular part of the process is the sorting of documents to facilitate metadata creation. It was presented at the 2023 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL) held May 16-18, 2023 in Austin, Texas.
Date: May 16, 2023
Creator: Rikka, Praneeth & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
More Than Just a Job: Student Employee Success in Academic Libraries [Audio] transcript

More Than Just a Job: Student Employee Success in Academic Libraries [Audio]

Audio for presentation describing how being a student assistant at UNT Libraries impacted Holly Dolan. The presentation also includes perspectives from other student workers, as well as advice on how to improve library programs to ensure the success of student workers. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Texas Library Association Annual Conference.
Date: April 16, 2015
Creator: Dolan, Holly
Object Type: Sound
System: The UNT Digital Library

More Than Just a Job: Student Employee Success in Academic Libraries

Presentation describes how being a student assistant at UNT Libraries impacted Holly Dolan. The presentation also includes perspectives from other student workers, as well as advice on how to improve library programs to ensure the success of student workers. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Texas Library Association Annual Conference.
Date: April 16, 2015
Creator: Dolan, Holly
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Distributed Digital Preservation ETD Workshop

This presentation is designed to provide institutions with Electronic Theses and Dissertation (ETD) initiatives with information about preserving ETDs. In this presentation, the authors discuss ETDs and preservation needs, MetaArchive and distributed preservation, Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD)/MetaArchive ETD DDPN Archive, collections management for preservation, MetaArchive and its member roles and responsibilities, and the ETD Lifecycle Management Project.
Date: September 16, 2011
Creator: McMillan, Gail & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

dkNET's Resource and Authentication Reports for Researchers

Presentation on dkNET's relevant tools for researchers. It was presented at the STEM Librarians South Conference which was held virtually on July 16, 2020.
Date: June 16, 2020
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Introduction to METS: UNT Libraries' Tech Talks

This Tech Talk presentation explores METS. The Metadata Encoding and Transmission Standard (METS) is an initiative of the Digital Library Federation. Maintained by the Library of Congress, it provides a standard vocabulary and set of data structures for encoding hierarchical digital object content and metadata. In this presentation the author explains more about these parts of METS, and discusses how METS may be applicable to digital collections in the UNT Libraries.
Date: October 16, 2007
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

pedagogy4liaisons

This website is a digital annotated bibliography that contains resources for the subject librarians and liaisons at the UNT Libraries. This repository is a digital copy of an annotated bibliography produced for the UNT Libraries’ Subject Librarian Workgroup. This digital platform allows for collaboration between the UNT liaisons to produce a list of resources for self-directed learning in pedagogy and theory in librarianship that may inform librarianship practices at the UNT Libraries.
Date: 2018-04-16/2020-05-12
Creator: Henson, Brea & Andrews, Pamela
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library

The E-Quality Service Model: Collaboration between the Reference and Circulation departments as a means to improve the library experience for distance education patrons in an academic library

This presentation discusses collaboration between the reference and circulation departments as a means to improve the library experience for distance education patrons in an academic library. The two authors give perspectives from the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: April 16, 2008
Creator: Ramin, Lilly & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Transitioning to SciFinder-n: What to Expect

Presentation on SciFinder-n and the updates made from SciFinder. It was presented at the STEM Librarians South Conference which was held virtually on July 16, 2020.
Date: June 16, 2020
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

External Funding, Infrastructures, and Digital Possibilities

Presentation discussing grant work, types of grants, and lessons learned by University of North Texas Libraries when working with grants. This presentation was given as part of the Texas State University Research Libraries 2022 Grant Series.
Date: February 16, 2022
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
With great power comes great responsibility: Libraries & publishers providing accessible content (open access)

With great power comes great responsibility: Libraries & publishers providing accessible content

Article reporting on a panel session of the same title from the Charleston Conference 2021. The panelists revealed how their organizations implemented accessibility initiatives that provide print disabled users with greater access to online content, and the author provides an overview of their discussion.
Date: June 16, 2022
Creator: Dawson, Jill
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library