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Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation: Community Briefing on the ANADP 2011 Summit
Presentation for the 2011 Coalition of Networked Information (CNI) meeting discussing the Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Summit, held in the capital of Estonia in May 2011.
Date:
December 13, 2011
Creator:
Halbert, Martin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2011 International Conference on Open Repositories. This presentation discusses the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the archiving of the reference URLs.
Date:
June 2011
Creator:
Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessing Student Critical Thinking Skills in Single Library Instruction Class
Presentation for the 2011 Phoenix Staff Development Day discussing how to assess the critical thinking skills of students in single library instruction classes. The challenges and solutions are discussed, as well as a recommendation for, and example of, a library instruction worksheet that can be used.
Date:
May 27, 2011
Creator:
Byerly, Gayla
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessing the Usage of Electronic Theses and Dissertations: An Overview of ETD Statistics and Metrics in the UNT Libraries
Presentation for the 2011 Texas Electronic Thesis and Dissertations (ETDs) Association Annual Conference. This presentation gives an overview of ETD statistics and metrics in the UNT Libraries.
Date:
March 31, 2011
Creator:
Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Phillips, Mark Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Assessment of Library Support for Distance Learning at UNT
Presentation for the 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference discussing assessments of library support for distance learning at the University of North Texas (UNT). The methods used include LibQUAL+ surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies.
Date:
June 27, 2011
Creator:
Wahl, Diane
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Collaborative Strategies for Digital Preservation of Newspapers
This presentation discusses collaborative strategies for the digital preservation of newspapers. The University of North Texas (UNT) Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP), the MetaArchive Cooperative, and the Chronicles in Preservation Project are discussed with information on what they do, the importance of newspaper digitization projects, and how collaboration can further efforts in this area.
Date:
April 11, 2011
Creator:
Halbert, Martin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Collection Development and Management Issues
This presentation discusses collection development and management issues. It describes considerations to keep in mind, suggestions and strategies, and ideas for successful digitization projects.
Date:
July 23, 2011
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Command-line Tools for Digital Preservation
Presentation for a 2011 command-line workshop at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission. This presentation discusses command-line tools for digital curation and preservation.
Date:
June 13, 2011
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Community-Driven Approaches to Digital Preservation
This presentation discusses community-driven approaches to digital preservation. The authors state the importance of collaboration and who is collaborating and how. In addition, information on some core principles of collaborative preservation and what these look like in practice.
Date:
August 12, 2011
Creator:
Halbert, Martin & Skinner, Katherine
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Connect With Your Part-Time Library Staff: Using Learning Styles to Individualize Training
Presentation discussing ways in which supervisors can individualize their training of part-time library staff based on individual learning styles. Training techniques currently in practice at the University of North Texas (UNT), Willis Library, for part-time shelvers will be demonstrated as well as assessment methods utilized to determine the effectiveness of staff training.
Date:
2011
Creator:
Leuzinger, Julie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Creating Space for Transition: A space study for an overcrowded library
Presentation for the Texas Library Association (TLA) Annual Conference. In the presentation, the author discusses creating study space for an overcrowded library.
Date:
April 13, 2011
Creator:
Leuzinger, Julie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Data Desiccation: Facilitating Long-Term Access, Use, and Reuse of ETDs [Presentation]
Presentation for the 2011 International Symposium on ETDs. This presentation discusses data desiccation and facilitating long-term access, use and reuse of electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).
Date:
September 2011
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Digital Library Evaluation
This Tech Talk presentation discusses digital libraries and methods used to evaluate these collections and the practices for developing and maintaining them.
Date:
March 9, 2011
Creator:
Hall, Nathan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Digitization 101
This presentation introduces topics related to digital libraries, including digital asset management, metadata, controlled vocabularies, and digital preservation.
Date:
April 12, 2011
Creator:
Phillips, Mark Edward
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
System:
The UNT Digital Library
From Common to Commons: Repurposing a Traditional Reading Room at the University of North Texas Science and Technology Library [Presentation]
Presentation for the Texas Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Librarians Conference. This presentation discusses repurposing a traditional reading room at the University of North Texas (UNT) Science and Technology Library.
Date:
July 12, 2011
Creator:
O'Toole, Erin
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Gordon Knox Film Collection: Access to Three Family Collections: How'd We Do It
This presentation discusses the digitization project of the Gordon Knox film collection. The University of North Texas (UNT) Media Library began working with the donors and assessing the project plan for digitizing this collection in 2007 and the films were made available in the UNT Digital Library in 2010. This presentation describes the strategies, initial challenges, processes, and lessons learned from working on this project.
Date:
November 19, 2011
Creator:
Stanton, Kimberly
System:
The UNT Digital Library
How to Take Better Photographs: Control Quality by Controlling the Camera
In this Tech Talk presentation, the authors demonstrate simple ways to improve a photograph by making use of camera controls and by considering location, lighting, and composition. The authors will introduce basic information about using manual camera settings to control aperture, shutter speed, and ISO, and the authors will discuss specific "shooting" situations such as portraits, group photos, and events.
Date:
July 27, 2011
Creator:
Jones, Jerrell & Hall, Nathan
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Importance of the Cover Letter: Why a Resume is not Enough
This presentation discusses the importance of including a well-written cover letter with a resume. The author points out why a resume is not enough when applying for a job and offers guidelines for how to successfully write a cover letter.
Date:
April 2011
Creator:
Leuzinger, Julie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Information Literacy and YouTube: A Winning Combination for Users and Librarians
This presentation discusses information literacy and YouTube. The authors describe how they integrate YouTube videos into their basic information literacy instruction sessions.
Date:
March 31, 2011
Creator:
May, Frances A.; Byerly, Gayla & Tharp, Julie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Introduction to the UNT Digital Collections
Presentation on the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Library and The Portal to Texas History. The topics include featured collections in The Portal to Texas History and in the UNT Digital Library, and the special collections of maps and their features and usage.
Date:
October 1, 2011
Creator:
Tarver, Hannah
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination
This presentation discusses marketing and promoting a library's government documents department. The author explains the marketing strategy as consisting of the Four P's: using Passionate Pro-active Promotions and Presentations to make your documents department a destination for answers. The author offers specific examples of promotional events and items, collaboration with other organizations and libraries, and specific ways that the University of North Texas (UNT) has marketed the benefits of its government documents.
Date:
October 2011
Creator:
Sears, Suzanne
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Motivating Student Employees
Presentation for the Student Assistant Supervisors Workgroup on motivating student employees. The author discusses training and orientation, following up, communication, recognition and rewards, the work environment and helpful resources.
Date:
2011
Creator:
Leuzinger, Julie
System:
The UNT Digital Library
National Status of Data Management: The DataRes and CLIR/Sloan Research Projects on Data Management Policies and Practices
Presentation discussing the DataRes and the CLIR/Sloan Research Projects on data management policies and practices. This presentation discusses these two collaborating projects researching emerging policies and practices in data management. These research projects are being undertaken by the Council on Library and Information Resources and the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date:
November 1, 2011
Creator:
Halbert, Martin
System:
The UNT Digital Library