This is an appendix to “What We Can Learn From Each Other: International Archival Pedagogy Conversations and Collaborations,” a manuscript that was inspired by a collaborative workshop at the 2023 institute of the Archival Education and Research Initiative (AERI). The lively workshop discussion revealed both how much the participants all had in common, and how much they had to learn from each other. Their discussion highlighted how disconnected and geographically siloed archival education programs still continue to be, despite opportunities for international collaboration between archival educators. With this issue in mind, workshop participants decided to continue their conversations past the AERI 2023 meeting as part of an investigation of current pedagogical practices, teaching needs, and future goals of archival educators in a variety of settings. They met on Zoom and then corresponded asynchronously for a discussion of the structures of their archival education programs, their students’ needs, their teaching goals, how they respond to challenges in their virtual and physical classrooms, and how they can leverage this and future collaborations to benefit both their students and the archival education field as a whole. Using the transcripts of their conversations as a data set, they then used a grounded theory analysis …

This report asserts that college students who are also parenting young children often face additional challenges on their path to academic success. The authors of the report state that UNT libraries begin addressing these challenges through two initiatives: circulating toys and books for young children and hosting designated study hours for student-parents, funded by a Dean's Innovation Grant for $2500.

Book chapter sharing the authors' experiences with establishing a values-driven open journal and look at ways these values can be incorporated into the bones of a journal.

Presentation discusses the process to publishing an open access book, and they discuss the critical role of OA in facilitating equitable global education. Authors of the presentation also introduce current and future work in the area of open access.

Conference proceedings paper sharing a study to determine the impact that "one-shot" library instruction sessions had on students' success in two foundational English courses. Overall, attendance in library instruction had a small but statistically significant impact on student success metrics. The main purpose of this analysis was to demonstrate the value of predictive modeling of student success and identify the key groups for which library instruction could provide the most impact. This is the accepted manuscript version of the final paper.

Paper highlighting the lives and careers of two octavists from Serge Jaroff’s Don Cossack Choir: Glib Chandrowsky (1886-1975) and Paul Myhalik (1911-1988).

Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of geography and the environment.

US Air Force Forward Air Controllers (FACs) bridge the gap between air and land power. They operate in the grey area of the battlefield, serving as an aircrew who flies above the battlefield, spots the enemy, and relays targeting information to control close air support attacks by other faster aircraft. When done well, Air Force FACs are the fulcrum for successful employment of air power in support of ground forces. Unfortunately, FACs in recent times have been shunned by both ground and air forces, their mission complicated by inherent difficulty and danger, as well as by the vicissitudes of defense budgets, technology, leadership, bureaucracy, and doctrine. Eagles Overhead is the first complete historical survey of the US Air Force FAC program from its origins in World War I to the modern battlefield. Matt Dietz examines their role, status, and performance in every US Air Force air campaign from the Marne in 1918, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Desert Storm, and finally Mosul in 2017. With the remaking of the post-Vietnam US military, and the impact of those changes on FAC, the Air Force began a steady neglect of the FAC mission from Operation Desert Storm, through the force reductions after …

This presentation focused on the background and workflows of adding oral histories to The Portal to Texas History. It was presented as part of the Oral History Forum Webinar Series.

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.

Presentation describes Daniel Alemneh's experiences as a Fulbright Scholar.

During World War II the United States mobilized its industrial assets to become the great “Arsenal of Democracy” through the cooperation of the government and private firms. The Dallas Story examines a specific aviation factory, operated by the North American Aviation (NAA) company in Dallas, Texas. Terrance Furgerson explores the construction and opening of the factory, its operation, its relations with the local community, and the closure of the facility at the end of the war. Prior to the opening of the factory in 1941, the city of Dallas had practically no existing industrial base. Despite this deficiency, the residents quickly learned the craft of manufacturing airplanes, and by the time of the Pearl Harbor attack the NAA factory was mass-producing the AT-6 trainer aircraft. The entry of the United States into the war brought about an enlargement of the NAA factory, and the facility began production of the B-24 Liberator bomber and the famed P-51 Mustang fighter. By the end of the war the Texas division of NAA had manufactured nearly 19,000 airplanes, making it one of the most prolific U.S. factories.

Joe Olexa enlisted in the US Army in December 1940, figuring that if he was going to be in a war, he might as well start training. Assigned to the 1st Infantry Division, nicknamed “The Big Red One,” he served in Company L of its 26th Infantry Regiment for the next four years. Along the way he trained with the division in maneuvers in the United States; shipped to England in 1942; landed at Oran, Algeria, in the Operation Torch landings of November 1942; and fought in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium, and Germany. Olexa was one of the first group of enlistees that brought the division up to full strength in the buildup prior to Pearl Harbor, and was a sergeant by the time he went overseas. He served as a squad leader, platoon sergeant, and acting platoon leader, outlasting nearly all the men in his company. His memoir features accounts of unusual adventures in Tunisia when his battalion was detached from the rest of the division, and presents a detailed and intense account of his platoon’s experiences at El Guettar. Later, Olexa became a “Sea Scout,” going ashore on Sicily the night before the invasion to provide signals to …

Poster focuses on developing a conceptual framework to understand data literacy needs in community colleges. The authors propose a framework for studying data literacy by conceptualizing data literacy and explicating the core content and competencies associated with it. It was presented at the 2023 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) conference held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This work is part of an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant.

Presentation focusing on a project-based experience to analyze workflows within technical services that influenced workload leveling and understanding of work across technical services at the UNT Libraries. It was presented at the CORE Interest Group Week held March 6-10, 2023.

Presentation highlighting the Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative at the University of North Texas Libraries. The Trans Accessible Libraries Initiative aims to remove some of the barriers trans individuals face accessing information and to provide more equitable access to our services and collections. The presentation shares the different phases of the project with guidance for others looking to start similar initiatives at their library, even if there is little administrative support.

Poster exploring the need for all-gender restrooms and the processing for implementing them in the University of North Texas Libraries' Annex building. It was presented at the University of North Texas Equity & Diversity 2023 Conference held in Denton, Texas.

This presentation for panel discussion #396 is about making sense of the curriculum for the Knowledge Management Practitioner within Society 5.0. It addresses the iSchool's version of "harnessing the power of information and technology, and maximizing the potential of humans" by recommending forward-thinking KM curricula and capabilities relevant to Society 5.0.

Presentation used to report the evaluation of UNT Libraries’ holdings supporting the curriculum and research in the area of gaming production.

In poems that celebrate survival and renewal, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender poems of fatherhood weigh against unsettling explorations of natural dangers and intimations of bodily harm. From porn sets to seedy gun ranges and heavy metal tribute nights in crumbling theaters, Hilbert’s eye roves over the desolation and beauty of contemporary America, all the while feeling the irresistible pull of water—what Melville called “the ungraspable phantom of life.”

An elite team of reporters brought the Great War home each week to ten million readers of The Saturday Evening Post. As America’s largest circulation magazine, the Post hired the nation’s best-known and best-paid writers to cover World War I. The Weekly War provides a history of the unique record Post storytellers created of World War I, the distinct imprint the Post made on the field of war reporting, and the ways in which Americans witnessed their first world war. The Weekly War includes representative articles from across the span of the conflict, and Chris Dubbs and Carolyn Edy complement these works with essays about the history and significance of the magazine, the war, and the writers. By the start of the Great War, The Saturday Evening Post had become the most successful and influential magazine in the United States, a source of entertainment, instruction, and news, as well as a shared experience. World War I served as a four-year experiment in how to report a modern war. The news-gathering strategies and news-controlling practices developed in this war were largely duplicated in World War II and later wars. Over the course of some thousand articles by some of the most …

Video recording of the session, "Federal Initiatives Supporting Open Science and Equitable Access," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session focuses on recent federal initiatives supporting Open Science and public access to federally-funded research, including those outlined in the 2022 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) memo, Ensuring Free, Immediate, and Equitable Access to Federally Funded Research.

Video recording of the session, "OER and Open Textbook Projects at UNT," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session is a panel of UNT faculty that discuss their university-sponsored OER and open textbook projects. They consider how these projects were conceived, created, and implemented in the classroom and what the outcomes, benefits, and drawbacks might be.

Video recording of the session, "Open Pedagogy and OER Workshop," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This workshop offers some practical tools and advice for developing OER and open pedagogy practices.