E-Journals Support at the UNT Libraries (open access)

E-Journals Support at the UNT Libraries

Report on e-journal support options for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. This report discusses staffing, support levels required to meet faculty expectations, and subsequent plans for next steps.
Date: 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Weng, Neena; Jansing, Dianne; Waugh, Laura & Luetkemeyer, John
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Resource Discovery Systems at the UNT Libraries (open access)

Resource Discovery Systems at the UNT Libraries

Report on resource discovery systems at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: September 14, 2011
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Weng, Neena; Thomale, Jason & Hicks, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unintended Consequences and Results (open access)

Unintended Consequences and Results

Keynote address from University Scholars Day 2011, as featured in the 2011 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2011
Creator: Rawlins, V. Lane
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento (open access)

Analyzing the Persistence of Referenced Web Resources with Memento

Paper presenting the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources reference from papers in scholarly repositories.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sanderson, Robert; Phillips, Mark Edward & Van de Sompel, Herbert
Object Type: Paper
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Occupation and authorship in The Indexer, 2000-09 (open access)

Occupation and authorship in The Indexer, 2000-09

Article on the occupations and authorship in The Indexer from 2000 through 2009.
Date: June 2011
Creator: Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination (open access)

Marketing to Your Community: Becoming a Destination

Article on marketing your library collection to your community and becoming a destination for information.
Date: December 6, 2011
Creator: Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals (open access)

Is Qualitative Research Second Class Science? A Quantitative Longitudinal Examination of Qualitative Research in Medical Journals

Article discussing the proportion of qualitative research over a 10 year period and correlates associated with its publication.
Date: February 2011
Creator: Shuval, Kerem; Harker, Karen; Roudsari, Bahman; Groce, Nora Ellen, 1952-; Mills, Britain A.; Siddiqi, Zoveen et al.
Object Type: Article
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
Object Type: Presentation
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Stretching Schemas: Flexible Metadata for Diverse Collections

Presentation on metadata schemas and utilizing flexibility in the metadata to address the needs of diverse collections.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Reference Beyond the Desk: Nontraditional Modes of Reference

This presentation discusses virtual reference services in libraries. The topics include virtual reference systems, with examples of what other institutions have adopted, collaborative virtual reference services with examples, and how reference librarians away from their desk and even off campus have developed new referencing services.
Date: April 15, 2011
Creator: Thomsett-Scott, Beth
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Unauthorized Immigration captions transcript

Unauthorized Immigration

This video recording is of the faculty lecture series UNT Speaks Out on Unauthorized Immigration. This series features Dr. Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Dr. David Molina, Dr. Mariela Nuñez-Janes, and Shaun Chapa. Dr. Martinez-Ebers, professor of political science, will provide a demographic profile of the U.S. immigrant population and introduce the various policy options that have been discussed in Congress. Dr. Molina, professor of economics and interim director of UNT's Immigrant Research and Policy Center, will focus on policy and economic impacts of labor. Dr. Nuñez-Janes, professor of anthropology, and Shaun Chapa, graduate student, will discuss undocumented students as a case study. They focus on issues of policy and practices, drawing on the students' experiences to raise questions about cultural citizenship, assimilation as the proxy for legal rights, new forms of racism and educational equity.
Date: April 13, 2011
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries.
Object Type: Video
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
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

LibQUAL+ Lite at UNT

This poster discusses the LibQUAL+ Lite survey. It summarizes results and implications relating to survey participation and survey results given at the University of North Texas (UNT).
Date: June 26, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Learning from Our Users: Using Assessment to Drive Change

This poster discusses using assessments and user feedback in the libraries. The poster illustrates a comparison between LibQUAL+ surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic study results for online students.
Date: June 26, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane & Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Using Assessment Techniques to Guide Library Service Improvements

This presentation discusses assessment techniques used to guide library service improvements. The assessments used are part of a triangulation method that uses three approaches of assessment in order to determine specific user needs and areas for improvement.
Date: May 27, 2011
Creator: Wahl, Diane; Avery, Elizabeth Fuseler & Downey, Annie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The UNT Libraries Website Redesign 2011-2012: Project Plan (open access)

The UNT Libraries Website Redesign 2011-2012: Project Plan

This report documents the project plan for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' website redesign. This report discusses why the redesign is necessary the scope of the work to be excluded, stakeholders, project phases, deliverables, and major milestones, assumptions, constraints, and risks.
Date: November 3, 2011
Creator: Weng, Neena; Hicks, William & Thomale, Jason
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Citing UNT: Scholarly Works that have Utilized UNT Resources (open access)

Citing UNT: Scholarly Works that have Utilized UNT Resources

This document is a citation list of the scholarly works that were found to have utilized University of North Texas (UNT) resources.
Date: 2011
Creator: Wilson, Kristi & LeBlanc, Danielle
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library