Texas Newspapers Natural Language Processing

This dataset includes data on natural language processing from the Texas Newspapers Project. The dataset includes word counts, name entity recognition results, and topic models.
Date: April 7, 2013
Creator: Torget, Andrew J., 1978-
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata and XML

This presentation discusses how XML can help store metadata. The University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit developed the UNTL metadata element set with IndexData that tailored the data to meet their needs.
Date: November 7, 2003
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Web Archiving at UNT and End of Term Harvest 2008

This presentation illustrates the collaborative project with the University of North Texas (UNT) and the United States Government Printing Office as part of the Federal Depository Library Program. The CyberCemetery was created as an online archive of government websites that have ceased operation. This also discusses the UNT collaboration with the United States Government Printing Office, the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, and the California Digital Library in an End of Term Harvest project in 2008 to archive the Presidential campaign websites before they ceased to exist.
Date: November 7, 2008
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Keeping Human Resources Happy: The Use of Rubrics in Evaluations During Hiring and Performance Evaluations

Presentation for the inaugural Library Human Resources Management Association Conference. The authors discuss keeping human resources happy with the use of rubrics in evaluations during hiring and performance evaluations.
Date: October 7, 2013
Creator: Brannon, Sian & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Newspaper PDF Preservation: A Low-Cost Solution with Tremendous Value (open access)

Texas Newspaper PDF Preservation: A Low-Cost Solution with Tremendous Value

Paper accompanying a presentation for the 2014 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) World Library and Information Congress General Conference. This paper discusses Texas newspaper PDF preservation and low-cost solutions with tremendous value.
Date: August 7, 2014
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action (open access)

News, new roles & preservation advocacy: Moving Libraries into action

This paper discusses how much news is published online that is never published in print or on more permanent media. It delves into some of the reasons why this convent is not yet preserved, and examines the persistent challenges of digital preservation and of digital curation of this content type.
Date: June 7, 2016
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine; Wilson, Marc & Zarndt, Frederick
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Scavenger Hunts, Zoom & Trolls: Lessons Learned from Virtual Outreach

Poster highlighting virtual outreach events to engage students during the COVID-19 pandemic. These events utilized Zoom’s video conferencing technology and aimed to be entertaining while also promoting the library’s virtual reference services.
Date: August 7, 2023
Creator: Brents, Madison
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborating on Scholarship

The presentation examines the considerations and processes for collaborating on scholarship from the perspective of academic librarians. It includes how to choose team members, facilitate collaboration and organize all the elements of a project to create a successful publication or presentation. Also included are administrative responsibilities, thoughts on handling problems, and examples of delineating responsibilities. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on August 7, 2020.
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

High-Quality Diet of Journals: Comparison of Top-ranked with Most-used Journals at a Large Academic Library

Presentation is a follow-up on work from the UNT Libraries regarding compiled data from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and its comparison to UNT holdings. Journal usage data has been added to provide a more complete answer to the original question posed previously. The presentation focuses less on the technology and steps for gathering this data, and more on the results and the limitations of such an analysis. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on August 7, 2020.
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Byrne, Sephra & Harker, Karen
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

To Meet or Not to Meet: How We Really Feel

Presentation highlights meeting science in the context of libraries with support from a survey conducted by the authors. Topics include the predictors of success for productive meetings, what academic librarian perceptions of effective meeting leadership are, and learn about the “best practices” for meeting participation and leadership. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on August 7, 2020.
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Collaborative Approach to the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist

Poster presented at the 2015 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. This poster discusses a collaborative approach to the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist.
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Waugh, Laura; Tarver, Hannah; Phillips, Mark Edward; Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digitizing Historic Architecture: The Texas Historical Commission's Architectural Photography Archive

Presentation for the 2015 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses digitizing historic architecture and the Texas Historical Commission's architectural photography archive.
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Davis, Ben & Nowlin, Justin
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Encouraging Digital Scholarship in Graduate Education

Panel presentation for the 2015 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. This presentation discusses strategies for encouraging digital scholarship in graduate education.
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Barham, Rebecca; Keralis, Spencer D. C.; Mirza, Rafia; Smith, Susan & Waugh, Laura
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A For-Fee Library-Based Publishing Service: Eagle Editions at the University of North Texas Libraries [2]

Poster presented at the 2015 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Annual Conference. This poster provides an overview of a recently launched scholarly publishing service at the University of North Texas.
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Managing Change Through Teamwork: UNT Libraries' Transition to Access-Based Collection Development

Presentation contains information on University of North Texas Libraries' move to increase access-based collection development. The presentation includes a plan that will increase collaboration between internal and external library employees in order to prevent the furthering of silos between Public Services and Technical Services. The presentation also mentions tips on structure, implementation tools, organization, and information sharing. This presentation was given at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference on Friday, August 7th, 2015.
Date: August 7, 2015
Creator: Crawford, Laurel; Condrey, Coby; Miller, Erin & Rowe, Jennifer
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Pedagogy for Practical Library Instruction – An Online Program

This presentation highlights an online program developed to introduce academic librarians to pedagogy and describes the overall outline of the program, the structure of the modules, and the implementation plan for this program. It was presented at the 2020 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held virtually on August 7, 2020.
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Roy, Meranda M.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

No Such Thing as a Free Lunch: Balancing Locally Curated Open Access Collections and Their Costs

Presentation for the NISO Webinar "Managing an Open Access World. Part 1: Open Access & Acquisitions. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' attempts to curate open access collections.
Date: September 7, 2016
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Storage of Electronic Files of Federal Agencies That Have Ceased Operation: A Partnership for Permanent Access (open access)

Storage of Electronic Files of Federal Agencies That Have Ceased Operation: A Partnership for Permanent Access

Article on the storage of electronic files of Federal Agencies that have ceased operation and a partnership for permanent access.
Date: August 7, 2000
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Biophilic Design for Libraries: Integrating and Referencing Nature to Create More Human-Centered Spaces

This poster discusses biophilic design for libraries.
Date: February 7, 2017
Creator: Barham, Rebecca; O'Toole, Erin & Smith, Susan
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Curation Micro-Applications: Digital Lifecycle Management with AutoHotkey

Poster presented at the 2013 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This poster discusses open source software tools coded with AutoHotkey that the UNT digital libraries group has developed for digital curation during the pre-ingest stage of the digital resource lifecycle.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Weidner, Andrew; Wilson, Robert John & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort

Poster illustrating the workflow used in the University of North Texas (UNT) Digital Projects Unit to digitize large numbers of TRAIL (Technical Report and Image Library) documents.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports] (open access)

[Handout to Accompany Poster on Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports]

Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Scanning TRAIL Project Technical Reports: A Workflow for a Large-Scale Collaborative Digitization Effort." In includes a brief overview of the project, a list of hardware and software used in the project, and a detailed list of the steps for each stage of the process (Inventory, Scanning, Processing, Metadata, and Upload).
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard] (open access)

[Handout to Accompany Poster on Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard]

Handout with supplementary information to accompany the poster "Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata." In includes examples of dates that meet Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards, examples of problems encountered when normalizing date displays for users, additional statistics related to already-valid dates in the digital collections at the time that the standards were formally adopted, and links to online materials.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library

Implementation of a New Date/Time Standard in Digital Library Metadata

Poster illustrating issues involved in fully-implementing the Extended Date/Time Format (EDTF) standards in the UNT Libraries' digital collections, comprising The Portal to Texas History, the UNT Digital Library, and The Gateway to Oklahoma History.
Date: May 7, 2013
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library