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UNT Libraries Guidelines for Planning Accessible & Inclusive Events (open access)

UNT Libraries Guidelines for Planning Accessible & Inclusive Events

The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries aim to create safe, welcoming, and respectful spaces for all members of the campus community. This resource presents guidelines created by the Library Council on Diversity and Inclusion (LCDI) for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) when planning library-wide internal events and for external events and conferences hosted by the UNT Libraries.
Date: February 2022
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries. Library Council on Diversity and Inclusion.
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Libraries Land Acknowledgment Creation Guide (open access)

University of North Texas Libraries Land Acknowledgment Creation Guide

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.
Date: June 24, 2021
Creator: Henson, Brea & Evans, Kelly
System: The UNT Digital Library
Automating Authority Control Procedures (open access)

Automating Authority Control Procedures

This paper is a part of the presentation, "Automating the Authority Control Process," for the Innovative Users Group Conference in 2020. The presentation introduces ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. The paper details the specific procedures described in the presentation.
Date: May 26, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix A: Survey questions (open access)

[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix A: Survey questions

This handout was presented along with a poster that presented the preliminary results from a survey of library employees on their experiences with toxic workplaces in libraries. This handout details the survey questions and the sources used to develop the survey. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix B: Warning Signs - Looking in from the Outside (open access)

[Tackling Toxicity.] Appendix B: Warning Signs - Looking in from the Outside

This handout was presented along with a poster that presented the preliminary results from a survey of library employees on their experiences with toxic workplaces in libraries. This handout details signs to look for during interviews and suggested questions to ask to determine if their is a toxic workplace environment. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
Date: March 10, 2020
Creator: Dewitt-Miller, Erin & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Procedure-Workflow Template (open access)

Procedure-Workflow Template

This workflow template was provided as a supporting document as part of the presentation, "E-Resource Cataloging: Challenges and Solutions." In the presentation, catalogers from a large academic library share how they make e-resources discoverable through their approach to record quality assessment, batch editing with regular expressions in MarcEdit, and record load tracking.
Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey; Baron, Adam; Berg, Jeremy; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regular Expressions Guides (open access)

Regular Expressions Guides

This list of guides was provided as a supporting document as part of the presentation, "E-Resource Cataloging: Challenges and Solutions." In the presentation, catalogers from a large academic library share how they make e-resources discoverable through their approach to record quality assessment, batch editing with regular expressions in MarcEdit, and record load tracking.
Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey; Baron, Adam; Berg, Jeremy; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library
E-Resource Cataloging Challenges and Solutions (open access)

E-Resource Cataloging Challenges and Solutions

Script notes for the presentation, "E-Resource Cataloging: Challenges and Solutions." In the presentation, catalogers from a large academic library share how they make e-resources discoverable through their approach to record quality assessment, batch editing with regular expressions in MarcEdit, and record load tracking.
Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey; Baron, Adam; Berg, Jeremy; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tracking E-Resource Record Loads (open access)

Tracking E-Resource Record Loads

This tracking sheet was provided as a supporting document as part of the presentation, "E-Resource Cataloging: Challenges and Solutions." In the presentation, catalogers from a large academic library share how they make e-resources discoverable through their approach to record quality assessment, batch editing with regular expressions in MarcEdit, and record load tracking.
Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey; Baron, Adam; Berg, Jeremy; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Subjects in the Digital Collections with Data Survey (open access)

Improving Subjects in the Digital Collections with Data Survey

Full-text of a Qualtrics survey preserving the original text and most of the formatting, including background and consent. The questions included free-text, ranking, single-choice, and multiple choice questions related to user preferences to find digital photographic images.
Date: 2020
Creator: Tarver, Hannah; Miles, Chassidy & Zipperer, Rachael
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grant Proposal: Developing a Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage (open access)

Grant Proposal: Developing a Data Trust for Open Access Ebook Usage

Grant proposal narrative for a project to build a pilot data trust related to usage of open access (OA) monographs that will allow authors and institutions to analyze the data in a secured system. Includes appendices for principal related efforts, curriculum vitae for the principal investigators, descriptions for positions that will be hired with grant funds, budget information, and meeting agendas.
Date: Autumn 2019
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Promoting Partnership and Interdisciplinarity for LIS Education (open access)

Promoting Partnership and Interdisciplinarity for LIS Education

Document proposal for a panel discussion at the Multidisciplinary Information Research Symposium (MIRS-2019). There are five panelists listed with brief descriptions of their topics including the current landscape shaping the future of information, language and power in a global and digital world, partnership, interdiciplinarity, new challenges, as well as new opportunities for LIS research.
Date: April 27, 2019
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Zavalina, Oksana; Baker, Rose M. & Palmer, Alexis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Survey of Benchmarks in Metadata Quality (open access)

Survey of Benchmarks in Metadata Quality

Full-text of a Qualtrics survey preserving the original formatting and text, including background and consent. The questions are organized into four sections: [1] questions 2-8. information about respondents’ institutions and professional experience.; [2] questions 9-18. metadata practices and technology within repositories; [3] questions 19-21. metadata elements included (i.e., required, recommended, or optional) and elements that are evaluated within repositories; and [4] questions 22-26. implemented and aspirational metadata evaluation practices at respondents’ institutions.
Date: 2019
Creator: Digital Library Federation. Assessment Interest Group. Metadata Working Group. Benchmarks Sub-Group.
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Libraries Serials List Data Dictionary FY 2017-2018 (open access)

UNT Libraries Serials List Data Dictionary FY 2017-2018

This document represents contains information regarding subscriptions purchased by UNT Libraries, along with pricing information for the 2013-14, 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17, and 2017-18 fiscal years.
Date: October 31, 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries. Collection Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Panel Proposal: Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information (open access)

Panel Proposal: Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information

Panel proposal for iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. This proposal outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information, including a brief discussion of the need for digital preservation efforts and an overview of the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project.
Date: September 25, 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie; Graebner, Carla; Zarndt, Frederick; McCain, Edward; Matheson, Scott; Etkin, Cynthia et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials (open access)

Genre Terms for Makerspace Materials

Handout for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference for the Games & Gaming Round Table. This document contains genre terms for cataloging makerspace materials within the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: June 24, 2018
Creator: Sassen, Catherine; Robson, Diane & Yanowski, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aquiline Books: Mock operating budget for fiscal year 2019 (open access)

Aquiline Books: Mock operating budget for fiscal year 2019

Handout presented for the 2018 Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. This text contains a mock operating budget for Aquiline Books, a University of North Texas Libraries publishing service.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Notes] The Impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study (open access)

[Notes] The Impact of Library Instruction on Undergraduate Student Success: A Four-Year Study

Notes for a presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This text contains speaking notes for a presentation that reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Hargis, Carol; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pedagogy for Liaisons: Resources for the Subject Librarians and Liaisons at the University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

Pedagogy for Liaisons: Resources for the Subject Librarians and Liaisons at the University of North Texas Libraries

Annotated bibliography containing scholarship exploring the connections between literacy, pedagogy, philosophy, and theory in librarianship.
Date: April 2018
Creator: Henson, Brea
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Libraries Serials Transparency List (open access)

University of North Texas Libraries Serials Transparency List

This document represents contains information regarding subscriptions purchased by UNT Libraries, along with pricing information for the 2013-14, 2014-15, and 2015-16 fiscal years.
Date: April 2018
Creator: University of North Texas. Libraries. Collection Development.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Contract and License Review Checklist (open access)

Contract and License Review Checklist

Checklist used to review contracts and licenses against state, library, and legal review policies.
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library
Electronic Resources Evaluation Rubric (open access)

Electronic Resources Evaluation Rubric

Rubric used to evaluate electronic resources for acquisition.
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Manifesto: Expectations for Vendors of Library Collections (open access)

University of North Texas Manifesto: Expectations for Vendors of Library Collections

Manifesto describing expectations for library collection vendors.
Date: February 2, 2018
Creator: Crawford, Laurel & Rodriguez, Allyson
System: The UNT Digital Library
Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game (open access)

Enhancing Discovery of Unique Collections: Get Ahead of the Game

This handout accompanies the poster "Enhancing the Discovery of Unique Collections" and contains an example of genre authority records, a partial bibliographic record, and a list of authorized genre headings.
Date: April 19, 2017
Creator: Robson, Diane; Yanowski, Kevin & Sassen, Catherine
System: The UNT Digital Library