This presentation highlights a curriculum mapping project at the University of North Texas Libraries. The project seeks to improve the capacity of UNT students for critical thinking and the ability to use information effectively. The key aim of the initiative was to strengthen core library services to enhance high-impact practices. It was presented at the Cross-Timbers Library Collaborative 2019 Conference held by Texas Woman’s University in Denton, Texas.

This document provides directions and information needed to complete a curriculum map for the Political Science Department at the University of North Texas. Other subject librarians may use this document to guide their own curriculum mapping projects.

This report documents the University of North Texas Libraries Curriculum Mapping Group's meetings, relevant annotated bibliography, the logic model for the project, and a sample curriculum map.

This dataset provides a data analysis of how student learning objective from PSCI syllabi map to threshold concepts from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education (2016) and the AAC&U Information Literacy Value Rubric (2013). The data includes non-core course for courses offered from the Fall 2017 semester to the Spring 2020 semester. This data analysis is conducted every three years. This curriculum map excludes core course previously as they were examined in the UNT Libraries Core Curriculum Map.

This literature review provides an overview of outreach in academic libraries over the last five years. The review aims to centralize the common activities and general purposes of outreach while also bringing emphasis to more strategic outreach efforts such as the incorporation of learning outcomes and assessment into outreach. The review also provides commentary on how outreach can be used to affect information literacy and research.

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

Presentation describing the process to create an annotated bibliography using GitHub so multiple users could access and contribute to it. The authors share some background, learning resources, problems, and how to contribute to the GitHub site.

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.

Conference proceedings of a revised script for a presentation describing the process to create an annotated bibliography using GitHub so multiple users could access and contribute to it. The authors share some background, learning resources, problems, and how to contribute to the GitHub site.

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.

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 Library History Seminar XIV: Libraries Without Borders event which was held virtually on June 10-12, 2021.

This document is intended to be a resource for library employees who wish to create a land acknowledgment for various aspects of their work. Creating land acknowledgments is not required, and they represent the perspective of the individual not the libraries or university.

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.

This presentation is a workshop that provides a structured program of five mindfulness exercises to help individuals learn how to develop mindfulness practices that may be useful when studying. The program is connected to an optional research study on mindfulness programming in libraries.

Presentation with speakers' notes describing the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. This initiative uses findings documented in recent studies addressing information seeking behaviors of transgender persons and their perceptions of the library to provide more equitable access to their services and collections. The presentation shares the needs assessment, collection development process, promotion and outreach, and next steps related to this initiative in hopes that other libraries can modify them to serve marginalized populations in their communities.

This report documents the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative (TALI) project funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.

Article presenting a curriculum mapping study of noncore course offerings in political science curricula by an early-career librarian. It combines syllabi study and curriculum mapping methods to analyze the language of student learning objectives (SLOs) from course syllabi and to integrate SLOs with threshold concepts from the ACRL Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education and the AAC&U Information Literacy VALUE Rubric. The methods produce two sample sets: one of core concept representation and the other of additional observances for syllabi improvements. Results analyze the frequency and percentage distributions of threshold concepts in SLOs. The author outlines strategies for engaging faculty in information literacy and suggests how librarians and faculty might inform information literacy teaching in the department.