Deep in the Heart of Texas: Government Information Stars from the Portal to Texas History

Presentation for Help! I'm an Accidental Government Information Librarian Webinar. This presentation provides an overview of Texas State government collections within the Portal to Texas History
Date: September 26, 2017
Creator: Sittel, Robbie
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

Broadening access to books on Texas and Oklahoma

Presented at the Humanities Open Book Project Directors Meeting at the National Endowment for the Humanities Headquarters. This lightning presentation contains an overview of the grant-funded project.
Date: September 22, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Let's Get Judgy: Rubric Based Evaluation of Electronic Resources

This poster describes the workflow for evaluating one resources using rubrics covering overall functionality, usability, and licensing and contracts. This poster was presented at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Orlando, FL on June 25, 2016, and at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions World Library and Information Congress in Columbus, Ohio on August 15, 2016.
Date: June 25, 2016
Creator: Miller, Erin & Crawford, Laurel
Object Type: Poster
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

Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

While technology has made producing copies of digital content almost entirely free, there is no escaping that publishing, according to most definitions of the term, still requires time and money. Any publishing service offered by a library must find a way to achieve financial sustainability—that is, operate without losing money. However, even "losing money" is a tricky concept, especially when taking into account varying definitions of operating expenses (overhead costs) under different models for auxiliary services. Libraries are by their very nature cost centers, providing services without the expectation of recovering revenue, and are usually part of larger organizations that similarly provide services under partial or full subsidies. While libraries are often comfortable with charging for convenience services and for services to those outside their designed community of users, careful thought should be given to which costs a publishing service-or any new service-should be expected to recover.
Date: August 12, 2016
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Library as an Essential Service (open access)

The Library as an Essential Service

This article looks at the role of the UNT Libraries as an essential service during the COVID-19 pandemic and shelter-at-home declaration in Denton County, Tx in the Spring of 2020.
Date: June 2020
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
X Marks the Spot: Creating and Managing a Single Service Point to Improve Customer Service and Maximize Resources (open access)

X Marks the Spot: Creating and Managing a Single Service Point to Improve Customer Service and Maximize Resources

This article describes how merging service points in an academic library is an opportunity to improve customer service and utilize staffing resources more efficiently.
Date: June 8, 2016
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann & Keshmiripour, Setareh
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Portal to Texas History: Building a Partnership Model for a Statewide Digital Library (open access)

The Portal to Texas History: Building a Partnership Model for a Statewide Digital Library

This chapter describes aspects of establishing the collaborations to create The Portal to Texas History, including the background of the project, marketing the initiative to potential partners, partnership roles and agreements, preservation of all digital master files, technical infrastructure to support partnership models, promoting standards and good practice, funding issues and development, research studies to understand partner benefits and user groups, sustainability issues, and future research directions.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Belden, Dreanna; Phillips, Mark Edward; Carlisle, Tara & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

UNT Scholarly Works

Compilation of presentations related to Scholarly Communications from UNT Libraries. The presentations introduce the UNT Scholarly Works repository, how to submit items to the repository, and how items are processed; the second portion of the presentation focuses on Open Access at UNT and the goal of Open Access movement; and the final presentation highlights how to approach copyright and authors' rights and options available to authors.
Date: August 2016
Creator: Andrews, Pamela & Zerangue, Amanda
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Impact of Physically Embedded Librarianship on Academic Departments (open access)

The Impact of Physically Embedded Librarianship on Academic Departments

This article discusses what happens when subject librarians move from the library services desk to spending a significant part of their workday in the academic departments they serve, and proposes a developmental model for physically embedded librarianship.
Date: July 2016
Creator: O'Toole, Erin; Barham, Rebecca & Monahan, Jo
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Toward a Better Understanding of Open Access Policy Assessment

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In this presentation, the speakers will use current scholarship on IR and assessment methods to tease apart elements useful for understanding the fluid components of an open access policy.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Zerangue, Amanda & Harker, Karen
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Engaged Subject Librarian

Presentation for the UNT Libraries Subject Librarian Workgroup August 2018 Meeting. This presentation recaps the presentation "Transforming Liaison Services at the UNT Libraries: Deconstructing and Reconstructing Library Liaisonship" from the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative annual conference for an internal audience.
Date: August 30, 2018
Creator: Condrey, Coby & Leuzinger, Julie
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Becoming an Associate Dean: A Librarian’s Tale of Lessons Learned (open access)

Becoming an Associate Dean: A Librarian’s Tale of Lessons Learned

Article shares the leadership lessons learned by a librarian who once served as a faculty member but then became an Associate Dean. Transitioning from a faculty role to an administrative one creates a landscape of learning that promotes growth and exposes challenges. This is the submitted/accepted manuscript version of the article.
Date: Winter 2020
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Aquiline Books at UNT: A Progress Report (open access)

Aquiline Books at UNT: A Progress Report

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. In June 2015, the UNT Libraries launched a for-fee service for publishing works of scholarship from authors affiliated with the university. While authors can choose from a menu of editing and design options, all publications are made free to read online through the institutional repository. In this presentation, we reflect on our choices in designing the publishing service—such as not organizing peer review, delivering publications through the repository, requiring free public access but not Creative Commons licenses—and on what authors have chosen from the menu of options over the past two years.
Date: June 2, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intersections of Scholarly Communication & Information Literacy Workshop: Final Report (open access)

Intersections of Scholarly Communication & Information Literacy Workshop: Final Report

This report documents the Intersections of Scholarly Communication & Information Literacy Workshop project funded through the 2017 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes Intersections of Scholarly Communication & Information Literacy Workshop project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Date: October 19, 2018
Creator: Martin, John Edward; Hardin, Gregory & O'Keefe, Lynette
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

A Campus-based Author-pays OA Publishing Service

Presented at the 2017 NFAIS Open Access Conference. In June 2015 the University of North Texas Libraries launched a for-fee service for publishing works of scholarship from authors affiliated with the university. While authors can choose from a menu of editing and design options, all publications are made free to read online through the institutional repository. Editing and design are carried out by freelancers and vendors, with charges passed on to authors; project management is provided by libraries staff for free. This service is meant to complement the UNT Press, which operates under a traditional university press model. This presentation reflects on the parameters of the service—such as charging authors, delivering publications through the repository, requiring free public access but not Creative Commons licenses, and not organizing peer review or charging for project management—and on what authors have chosen from the menu of options since the service was launched.
Date: October 2, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Enabling Scholarly Annotation Using Open Frameworks for the Web

This presentation presents two implementations of the W3C Web Annotation Working Group’s data model for annotations: Hypothesis (for annotating webpages) and IIIF (for interoperability of images).
Date: August 24, 2016
Creator: Judkins, Julie & Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Getting started with IIIF (open access)

Getting started with IIIF

This handout accompanies the presentation "Enabling Scholarly Annotation Using Open Frameworks for the Web" given as part of a panel at El'Manuscript-2016. This handout describes the International Image Interoperability Framework and provides links to resources.
Date: August 20, 2016
Creator: Judkins, Julie & Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners (open access)

Academic Librarians as STEM Retention Partners

This column article discusses how academic librarians can assist with increasing student retention in STEM fields.
Date: May 2017
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions? (open access)

Achieving Financial Sustainability: Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?

This article discusses the financial sustainability of scholarly publishing and libraries, based off the author's presentation given at the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions 2016 Satellite Meeting on Libraries as Publishers: Building a Global Community.
Date: August 18, 2017
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Opening Remarks captions transcript

2023 UNT OA Symposium: Opening Remarks

Video recording of the opening remarks for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023.
Date: April 14, 2023
Creator: Martin, John Edward & Antes, Isabelle
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
2023 UNT OA Symposium: OER and Open Textbook Projects at UNT captions transcript

2023 UNT OA Symposium: OER and Open Textbook Projects at UNT

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.
Date: April 14, 2023
Creator: Martin, John Edward; Connors, Priscilla L.; Ding, Junhua; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Ryan, Sarah & Webb, Jae
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
2023 UNT OA Symposium: Recent Texas Legislation Affecting Course Materials and OER captions transcript

2023 UNT OA Symposium: Recent Texas Legislation Affecting Course Materials and OER

Video recording of the session, "Recent Texas Legislation Affecting Course Materials and OER," for the UNT Open Access Symposium held virtually on April 14, 2023. This session looks at two recent pieces of legislation-- Texas SB 810 (OER course markings) and HB 1027 (disclosure of course material information)--and their implications for Texas institutions of higher education.
Date: April 14, 2023
Creator: Ivie, DeeAnn; McClean, Jessica & Towery, Stephanie
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library