Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks (open access)

Avoiding the Calf-Path: Digital Preservation Readiness for Growing Collections and Distributed Preservation Networks

This paper discusses digital preservation readiness for growing collections and distributed preservation networks.
Date: 2009
Creator: Halbert, Martin; Skinner, Katherine & McMillan, Gail
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collaborating with Your Local Public Library (open access)

Collaborating with Your Local Public Library

This book chapter discusses collaborating with local public libraries.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hoffman, Starr; Downey, Annie & Sears, Suzanne
Object Type: Book Chapter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Earth, Rotation of (open access)

Earth, Rotation of

Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses the rotation of the earth.
Date: 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Eclipses (open access)

Eclipses

Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses eclipses.
Date: 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Effective Tools for Digital Object Management

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit workflow for digitization, including organizing materials, using a Wiki project page, internal workflow, managing objects and identifiers, and using a Magick Numbering system.
Date: 2009
Creator: Moore, Jeremy D. & Fisher, Sarah Lynn
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions (open access)

Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions: Adopting PREMIS in Cultural Heritage Institutions

Paper accompanying a poster presentation for the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This paper provides some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Expanding the Search for Digital Preservation Solutions [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2009 ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. The poster provides some preliminary results on factors that affect the adoption of PREMIS (Preservation Metadata Implementation Strategies) in cultural heritage institutions.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library
LibQual+ 2009 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

LibQual+ 2009 Survey: University of North Texas Libraries

This report contains information from the 2009 administration of the LibQUAL+™ protocol at University of North Texas Libraries. Based on the SERVQUAL model, the purpose of the LibQUAL+® survey is to provide libraries with an objective tool to measure library service quality based on the perceptions of students, faculty, and staff. Survey results provide a library with insight into its strengths as well as areas in need of improvement.
Date: 2009
Creator: Association of Research Libraries
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources (open access)

Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources

Paper accompanying a poster presentation at the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This paper discusses metadata quality and a phased approach to ensuring long-term access to digital resources.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Quality: A Phased Approach to Ensuring Long-Term Access to Digital Resources [Poster]

Poster presented at the 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting. This poster discusses how an effective metadata management approach can help institutions improve consistency, clarity of lineage, and relationships to that they can better use, reuse, and integrate resources.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Poster
System: The UNT Digital Library

Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Presentation on issues related to metadata quality management and demonstrates a number of tools, workflows, and quality assurance mechanisms employed by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries' Digital Projects Unit.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience (open access)

Metadata Quality Assurance: The University of North Texas Libraries' Experience

Article on metadata quality assurance and the experience of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.
Date: 2009
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2009 (open access)

Organizational History of The Portal to Texas History, 2009

This document is a brief organizational history for The Portal to Texas History for 2009. This document was used for grant submissions to state or federal funding agencies, or private foundations. This document reflects on strategic directions for the program, as well as the number of collaborative partners for the Portal, and the number of historic documents in the digital library.
Date: 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Photosynthesis (open access)

Photosynthesis

Encyclopedia article entry in the Encyclopedia of Time: Science, Philosophy, Theology, and Culture by H. James Birx. This encyclopedia article discusses photosynthesis.
Date: 2009
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History

This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History was started, the processes involved, and how the IOGENE project developed. It discusses the many planning phases and reasons for the decisions that were made and illustrates the outcomes and how The Portal to Texas History works.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Portal to Texas History Partner List, 2009 (open access)

The Portal to Texas History Partner List, 2009

This document lists all of the partners of The Portal to Texas History in 2009. These partners were involved in projects and collections that were a part of the Portal.
Date: 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to The Eagle Feather 2009 (open access)

Preface to The Eagle Feather 2009

Introduction to the 2009 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2009
Creator: Cox, Gloria C. & Eve, Susan Brown
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas (open access)

Preface to the Proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology at the University of North Texas

Introduction to the special section featuring the proceedings of the Department of Anthropology’s National Science Foundation (NSF) Summer Research Methods Program in Anthropology in the 2009 edition of the Eagle Feather.
Date: 2009
Creator: Dessouky, Shimaa Y. & Yamaki, Satoshi
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: A Definitive Course from Concept to Comic in 15 Lessons (open access)

[Review] Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: A Definitive Course from Concept to Comic in 15 Lessons

This article reviews the book "Drawing Words and Writing Pictures: A Definitive Course from Concept to Comic in 15 Lessons," by Jessica Abel and Matt Madden.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Review] Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love (open access)

[Review] Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love

This article reviews the book "Wire Mothers: Harry Harlow and the Science of Love," by Jim Ottoviani and Dylan Meconis.
Date: 2009
Creator: Hoffman, Starr
Object Type: Review
System: The UNT Digital Library
Spiritual Anatomy: In the Image of the Universal Mind (open access)

Spiritual Anatomy: In the Image of the Universal Mind

This flyer showcases a painting by Rebecca Barham with information about the Visual Arts Society of Texas' 21st Annual Juried Members Exhibition.
Date: 2009
Creator: Barham, Rebecca
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Undergraduate Scholar Articles in Art History: An Introduction (open access)

Undergraduate Scholar Articles in Art History: An Introduction

Introduction to the special section on art history in the 2009 edition of The Eagle Feather.
Date: 2009
Creator: Way, Jennifer; Owen, Lisa N. & Hirsch, Lauren
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2009 (open access)

University of North Texas Libraries Grant History: 2000-2009

This document lists all grants given to the University of North Texas Libraries from 2000 to 2009. The projects that were funded by these grants are summarized.
Date: 2009
Creator: Belden, Dreanna
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Digital Initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries

This presentation gives an overview of the University of North Texas (UNT) Library's Digital Projects Unit (DPU) and their digitization initiatives.
Date: January 28, 2009
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library