Making Meetings More Meaningful: An Exploration of Meeting Science in Libraries (open access)

Making Meetings More Meaningful: An Exploration of Meeting Science in Libraries

This article adds to the growing body of research in meeting science, explored from a library perspective. The authors investigate the predictors of success for productive meetings, librarian perceptions of effective meeting leadership, and best practices for meeting leadership.
Date: May 12, 2021
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Design Tips & Tricks for Presentations and Posters

Presentation that highlights the use of basic design principles when creating presentations and posters. It was organized by the UNT Libraries' Career Development Committee and held virtually on May 12, 2020.
Date: May 12, 2020
Creator: Barham, Rebecca
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tips and Tricks for Using Create Lists in Sierra

Presentation on using the Create List function in Sierra, a library service platform. It covers the basics of how to use create lists, some best practices, as well as some slightly more advanced uses like Import records, JSON queries, and using Regular Expressions in the search info. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Automating Monthly Clean Up: No longer a babysitter

Presentation on automating the clean up of catalog records in Sierra using SQL queries and Python scripts. It was presented at the 2023 Innovative Users Group Conference held in Phoenix, Arizona.
Date: May 12, 2023
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships (open access)

Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships

This paper focuses on how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries was able to develop a successful partnership with the UNT Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) and move outside the Libraries’ normal sphere of influence to help create a patent internship program for students. The paper is published in the Texas Library Journal Special Edition for Summer 2020, and it was a contributed paper at the Texas Library Association 2020 Virtual Summer of Learning conference.
Date: August 12, 2020
Creator: Dooley, Yvonne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Heart of Librarianship: A Literature Review of Outreach in Academic Libraries

Presentation that provides a summary of the literature on library outreach and indicates how the literature review has impacted outreach developments at the UNT Libraries. Outreach has a positive impact on student success, but a clear definition of what outreach is looms beyond the literature. Intermixed with marketing, advertising, broader engagement methods, and social media use, outreach has become a catch-all term for activities that bring awareness to library resources, services, programs, spaces, and employees. It was presented at the UNT Libraries' Public Services Conversation Hour, an internal, divisional peer learning and training program.
Date: August 12, 2021
Creator: Henson, Brea
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 2020 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 11, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 12, 2020

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: March 12, 2020
Creator: Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Poe Studies Association Online Forums: Poe & Comics captions transcript

Poe Studies Association Online Forums: Poe & Comics

This video features a presentation by Dr. John Edward Martin on the topic of “Poe & Comics”, as shared during an August 2020 meeting of the Poe Studies Association as part of their monthly Online Forums sessions. In it, Dr. Martin shares a bit of the history of Poe in comics & graphic narrative, some of the scholarship on the subject, and his own scholarly interest in the subject. The presentation is followed by a discussion with other members of the Poe Studies Association.
Date: August 12, 2020
Creator: Martin, John Edward
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library