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Organizing a Successful Workload Analysis Project

Presentation sharing the process for developing and executing a workload analysis project at the University of North Texas Libraries for the Cataloging and Metadata Services department. It was presented at the Creative Solutions in Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Resources Management Conference held by Amigos Library Services on February 15, 2024.
Date: February 15, 2024
Creator: Yanowski, Kevin; Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
OA usage reporting: Understanding stakeholder needs and advancing trust through shared infrastructure (open access)

OA usage reporting: Understanding stakeholder needs and advancing trust through shared infrastructure

Article describes how the complexity of usage reporting for open access content continues to grow, particularly with content syndication to organizations such as ScienceDirect and ResearchGate, which deliver content across multiple platforms at an unprecedented scale. This paper brings together four different perspectives and walk through what is known, then start to unpack the questions for which they do not have answers.
Date: December 15, 2023
Creator: Tim, Lloyd; Miller, Tricia; Drummond, Christina & Kemp, Jennifer
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Organizing a Successful Workload Analysis Project

Presentation sharing the process for developing and executing a workload analysis project at the University of North Texas Libraries for the Cataloging and Metadata Services department. It was presented at the Creative Solutions in Cataloging, Acquisitions, and Resources Management Conference held by Amigos Library Services on February 15, 2024.
Date: February 15, 2024
Creator: Yanowski, Kevin; Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral Histories in The Portal to Texas History

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.
Date: February 15, 2023
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Instructional Videos as Tools for Student Learning: Purpose and Practice

Presentation on the creation and use of instructional videos in the UNT Libraries. This poster presentation describes their video production process, how these videos have supported student learning, and an example of an instructional video we created. Instructional videos are one major online resource that the University of North Texas Libraries provides to students. Librarians create a variety of online videos on topics that supplement course materials and instruction sessions. It was presented at the 2021 Texas Library Association (TLA) Library Instruction Round Table Annual Summit which was held virtually on October 15, 2021.
Date: October 15, 2021
Creator: Volpe, Amelia & Roy, Meranda M.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNT Libraries Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (IDEA) Initiatives (open access)

UNT Libraries Inclusion, Diversity, Equity & Accessibility (IDEA) Initiatives

Report on the accomplished and continued Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility (IDEA) efforts of the UNT libraries prior to April 2022. The report details efforts in representing underserved communities in library collections, accessibility efforts, resources such as online guides created to support IDEA initiatives, special projects, grants and fellowships, events, workplace culture, outreach, and committees or groups designed to expand Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, & Accessibility.
Date: April 15, 2022
Creator: Library Council on Diversity and Inclusion
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Forging Connections at the University of North Texas to Comply with Funder-Mandated Public Access to Research Data

Presentation highlighting the collaboration between the University of North Texas Libraries and the Division of Research and Innovation to proactively document and provide stable, long-term access to information about federally-funded grant projects received at UNT, but more importantly to act as a centralized location for accessing research and grant artifacts including documentation and datasets created during the award period. It was presented virtually at the Southeast Data Librarian Symposium held on October 13-15, 2021.
Date: October 15, 2021
Creator: Johnson-Freeman, Whitney R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Studio Arts Collection Evaluation Report (open access)

Studio Arts Collection Evaluation Report

This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Studio Arts collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
Date: November 15, 2021
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Criminology Collection Evaluation Report (open access)

Criminology Collection Evaluation Report

This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Criminology collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
Date: November 15, 2021
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Philosophy and Religious Studies Collection Evaluation Report (open access)

Philosophy and Religious Studies Collection Evaluation Report

This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Philosophy and Religious Studies collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
Date: October 15, 2021
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Speech & Hearing Sciences Collection Evaluation (open access)

Speech & Hearing Sciences Collection Evaluation

This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Speech and Hearing Sciences collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
Date: October 15, 2021
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Africana Studies Collection Evaluation Report (open access)

Africana Studies Collection Evaluation Report

This report summarizes an evaluation of the UNT Libraries' Africana Studies collection to determine if the collection is adequately serving patron needs. It was determined that the collection was currently meeting patrons' needs, and some recommendations for future collection maintenance were included.
Date: October 15, 2021
Creator: Harker, Karen
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

TRAIL Microcard Scanning Project

Presentation on the topic of microcard digitization presented at the annual meeting for the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL). This presentation discusses the opaque microcard format and a project conducted by the UNT Libraries to produce high-quality digital files from the format.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Microfiche Scanning at UNT

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the digitization of microfiche as part of the technical report digitization activities at the UNT Libraries.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

NACA Metadata Uplift Update

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the metadata cleanup activities for the collection of technical reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which is hosted by the UNT Libraries for TRAIL.
Date: May 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity

UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity. Ultimately choosing to adapt the Points Process System developed by the University of Northwestern.
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Library Federation 2019 Capacity Presentation Script

Script notes for the presentation "Adventures in determining a digitization lab's capacity" at the 2019 Digital Library Federation Forum. UNT's Digital Projects Unit explores ways to determining their output capacity.
Date: October 15, 2019
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Record Graphs for Six Collections from the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections (open access)

Metadata Record Graphs for Six Collections from the UNT Libraries' Digital Collections

Paper providing background and the entire processed, intermediary data used for network analysis research regarding metadata from the UNT Digital Collections. It includes background and contextual information to reuse the data and provides complete datasets for metadata in six selected collections: the College of Music Recordings, Technical Report Archive and Image Library, the Texas Patents Collection, Texas State Publications, UNT Theses and Dissertations, and the University Photography Collection.
Date: August 15, 2019
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward; Tarver, Hannah & Zavalina, Oksana
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Louisiana Virtual Academic Library Conference. This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries' multi-year effort to improve vendor relations by proactively preventing problems and by responding effectively to new situations as they arise.
Date: November 15, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Finding the Right Words: User-generated description of television news collections: Final Report (open access)

Finding the Right Words: User-generated description of television news collections: Final Report

This report documents the Finding the Right Words: User-generated description of television news collections project funded through the 2017 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Date: October 15, 2018
Creator: Treat, Laura
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Growing Your Custom Holdings

This presentation is part of the panel "The Care and Feeding of Custom Holdings" from the 2017 OCLC Resource Sharing Conference and shares concrete instructions, best practices, and innovations in the configuration and maintenance of custom holdings groups and paths used within multiple OCLC ILL interfaces at University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: March 15, 2017
Creator: Johnston, Pamela
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Power of Images + Text as Survey Responses

This presentation discusses how the authors created a survey and incorporated feedback through submitted images regarding a graduate student space in the library.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Barham, Rebecca & Hallman, Caroline
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Case Study of Metadata Creation in the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Collections

This presentation contains a case study of the work carried out by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries and the intersection of metadata modeling, metadata input rules and documentation, metadata quality assessments, and technology to empower metadata editors to create high-quality metadata.
Date: August 15, 2016
Creator: Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Libraries Digital Infrastructure: Behind the Scenes

Presentation for the 2015 ARMA Annual Conference. This presentation discusses the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' digital infrastructure.
Date: September 15, 2015
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library