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Responding to User Feedback about Digital Newspaper Collections

Presentation sharing how the University of North Texas Digital Libraries manages user feedback and requests for The Portal to Texas History. It was presented at the National Digital Newspaper Program Awardee Meeting held on September 29, 2022.
Date: September 29, 2022
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library

Leveraging Collaboration and Peer-to- Peer Strategies to Expand Outreach Efforts

Presentation highlighting changes made in the University of North Texas Libraries' Access Services Department to address changing workflows and service demands, including reallocating duties to create a position that focuses on outreach and programming for the department.
Date: July 28, 2023
Creator: Knox, Briana & Brents, Madison
System: The UNT Digital Library

Prepare to Share

This presentation provides an overview of the landscape and factors to consider in choosing among the options for printing and selling an open textbook. It was originally presented as part of Pub101, an online course from the Open Education Network, on February 24, 2021.
Date: February 24, 2021
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Digitized Historical Newspapers to Engage Sociology Students in Local History [Presentation]

Presentation highlighting a course developed by Dr. William Scarborough at the University of North Texas (UNT) on intersectionality for undergraduate students. Partnering with the UNT Libraries to engage with primary sources, particularly newspaper collections, to conduct archival analysis related to the history of power, domination and resistance in Texas communities.
Date: August 17, 2023
Creator: Krahmer, Ana; Scarborough, William & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library

These Tunes Ain't Straight In Line: Grateful Dead Shows and Problems with Music Cataloging Outside of the Western Art Paradigm

Presentation provides an overview of the structure upon which modern library resource description is based, and we will highlight the difficulties of imposing this description standard on music for which it was not optimized, using examples from the Grateful Dead repertoire. It was presented at the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association's 44th Annual Conference held in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Date: February 23, 2023
Creator: Berg, Jeremy & West, Janelle
System: The UNT Digital Library

Working Towards an Index of Music Printed in American Newspapers: 1900-1920

Presentation highlighting a project to create an index of music printed and shared via newspapers in the United States from 1900 to 1920. It also shares some results of the project so far. It was presented at the Texas Music Library Association's fall meeting held October 20-21, 2023 in Denton, Texas.
Date: October 20, 2023
Creator: Fisher, Sarah Lynn
System: The UNT Digital Library

Processing The Grandview Tribune From Start to Finish

Presentation covering the task of processing The Grandview Tribune newspaper for digitization completed by student employees. This presentation was given at the UNT Libraries 2022 Student Library Assistant Symposium.
Date: April 14, 2022
Creator: Martin, John, Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Organizing a Successful Workload Analysis Project

Presentation sharing the process for developing and executing a workload analysis project at the University of North Texas Libraries for the Cataloging and Metadata Services department. It was presented at the Creative Solutions in Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Resources Management Conference held by Amigos Library Services on February 15, 2024.
Date: February 15, 2024
Creator: Yanowski, Kevin; Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian
System: The UNT Digital Library

Application of Big Data Analytics in Precision Medicine: Lesson for Ethiopia, Systematic Review

This presentation asserts that in Ethiopia, the BDA concept and its implementation are either not know or left insignificant. The aim of this study was to investigate the current trends, challenges and opportunities of applying BDA in precision medicine globally and take lessons for Ethiopia.
Date: June 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Woldemariam, Misganaw Tadesse
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Innovation in Education: the Evolution of Open Access

Presentation details digital innovation in education, specifically, the evolution of open access.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Changing Landscape of Scholarly Communications

The presentation is about changing the landscape of scholarly communications. The presentation describes how using social justice lenses could promote OA and OER.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Fourie, Ina; Rorissa, Abebe; Ford, Angela & Assefa, Shimelis
System: The UNT Digital Library

Data-Driven Decision-Making Practice in Higher Education Institutions in Ethiopia

This presentation details how the authors' study investigates the practice of data-driven decision-making in higher education institutions in Ethiopia. The study also involved interviews with two directors from the university's education program relevance and enhancement office and four senior officers from library departments.
Date: October 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Asfaw, Zelalem; Jimma, Worku & Ferede, Bekalu
System: The UNT Digital Library

Flexible OA Support in Academic Publishing: IGI Global's Premiere Platinum Open Access Book in Collaboration with University of North Texas

Presentation presents "Handbook of Research on the Global View of Open Access and Scholarly Communications", and details chapter information.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Helge, Kris; Priyanto, Ida Fajar; Beyene, Melkamu; Ford, Angela & Haynes, Brittany
System: The UNT Digital Library

Extractive Automatic Text Summarization Techniques for Afaan Oromoo - Afroasiatic Language in Ethiopia

Presentation describes how there is an enormous amount of textual materials, which can be difficult for humans to distil effectively. Researchers have targeted producing summaries of doctors' prescriptions, lengthy information articles. These manner readers can take advantage of quite a few records on numerous subjects inside a brief span.
Date: June 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Moissa, Ramata
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reducing Epistemic Injustices in Scholarly Output Management: Individual and Collective Levels

Presentation discusses scholarly output dissemination and production in different disciplines. It also touches on the role of open access and the removal of barriers in facilitating access and enhancing the research impact.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Beyond Scholarly Communications: The Role of Open Access in Facilitating Digital Preservation

Presentation asserts that ensuring long-term access to digital information resources is one of the key challenges facing cultural heritage intuitions today. This presentation looks broadly into the contributions that open access (OA) has made towards facilitating the preservation of data.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Open Science and Open Data: Issues and Considerations

Presentation describes how the open access movement is transforming scholarly communication.
Date: March 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Role of Open Access in Promoting Equitable and Human-Centered Teaching and Learning Environment: Post-Pandemic Academia

Presentation discusses how the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier. All these developments provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable content and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations.
Date: August 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Laughton, Paul
System: The UNT Digital Library

Knowledge Sharing Practices Among Faculty Members in Higher Education Institutions

Presentation asserts that knowledge is regarded as an organization's most valuable strategic resources. This presentation highlights and discusses knowledge sharing practices among faculty members in higher education institutions.
Date: April 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Dube, Farirai Delma
System: The UNT Digital Library

My Fulbright Experience: Ethiopia (2019-20) & South Africa (2021-22)

Presentation describes Daniel Alemneh's experiences as a Fulbright Scholar.
Date: February 27, 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Towards Reducing Epistemic Injustices Identified During Fulbright Experiences

Presentation describes how teaching is one of the activities as a Fulbright Scholar. Alemneh describes a plethora of open-source tools and technologies used to prepare, organize and deliver the courses I taught.
Date: October 2023
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Assefa, Shimelis & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Roles of Library for Quality Education and Research: Emerging Trends in the Information Professions

Presentation asserts that in times of information scarcity, libraries provided the most effective way of sharing material.
Date: March 12, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Indexing in a Digital World

Presentation is about how; the synergies of numerous emerging trends are making resource integration much easier and provide users with access to more diverse and previously unavailable contents and services that span myriad technologies across institutions and nations. Despite this, the ever-expanding digital information resources in the Web, has evolved without much regard to resources management and organization issues.
Date: May 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library

Scholars Experiencing Epistemic Injustice Due to Management of Scholarly Outputs

Presentation describes the ways scholars experience epistemic injustice. Authors of the presentation claim that these cases of epistemic injustice are due to management of scholarly outputs.
Date: October 2022
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela
System: The UNT Digital Library