This presentation provides an overview of the redesign of reference services at UNT Libraries using brand research and marketing strategies.

Digital technology is making it possible for publishers and libraries to gather data on the dissemination and use of scholarly publications in unprecedented detail and on an unprecedented scale. While data arising from the digital distribution of content provides new opportunities for understanding the scholarly communication ecosystem, it also creates socio-technical challenges for understanding how scholarly content is shared and used across networked knowledge landscapes. Libraries and institutions will require the context that aggregate data can provide to effectively use the data they collect, but they will be unable to create this context alone. This risks leaving the collection of data in the hands of a small number of well-resourced organizations—likely commercial—that do not answer to the community. The proposed Publishing Analytics Data Alliance will serve as a cooperative in which representatives from all of the relevant academic publishing stakeholder groups (academic publishers, research libraries, research centers, and aggregators) collaborate to address the socio-technical challenges around publishing analytics: developing a data model, workflows, and prototype for aggregation and display of usage data relating to digital monographs, and creating an accompanying code of ethics and terms of use for data gathering, analysis, and dissemination by members.

These grant materials were prepared for a project funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Common Heritage program to digitize, preserve, and provide access to community historical records. The award funded digitization of print and media items related to the motion picture history of Denton County and a lecture highlighting Denton’s film history and materials discovered during the program. For this grant, UNT served as the lead institution and collaborated with the Texas Archive of the Moving Image. The grant materials include a history of Denton County’s involvement in film production and distribution, digitization standards, and a work plan for the project. This proposal was funded for $11,840.

Poster for the 2015 Medical Library Association Annual Meeting and Exhibition. This poster discusses recommended library contributions to the retention of premedical students.

Article on the findings of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) survey of text encoding practices in libraries.

Presentation for the 2015 Louisiana Library Association (LLA) Government Documents Round Table Section (GODART) Breakfast Meeting. This presentation discusses advocating to grow collections and mentoring to grow leaders.

Article on the fear of negative evaluation and differences amongst librarians.

Article describing the results of informal and formal research regarding electromagnetic (EM) effects of near-death experiences (NDEs); it reviews cases in which a person acts on his environment and those in which a person reacts to the environment. The paper also proposes more precise terminology regarding EM phenomena based on the research and literature review.

Partial abstract: In this article, we present a case study of an adult male who experienced both gravity induced loss of consciousness (G-LOC) as a Korean War aviation cadet, including narrowing of his visual field to a point of light and also two subsequent transpersonal experiences -- a near-death experience (NDE) and an after-death communication (ADC) -- that both included a tunnel-and-light feature. His Near-Death Experience Scale scores for each experience and his comparison of the qualia of these experiences provide unique evidence in the debate about the nature and likely origins of such experiences. These data place more weight on the argument that the tunnel and light in transpersonal experiences cannot reasonably be attributed to loss of oxygen in the brain.

Poster presented at the 2015 Library Publishing Forum. This poster provides an overview of a recently launched scholarly publishing service at the University of North Texas.

Presentation for the 2015 International Association of Music Libraries Annual Conference.This presentation discusses digital recordings and sound quality.

Article on improving access to collections with an online holds service at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries (TCDL). This presentation discusses a collaborative peer-review process for the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC).

Presentation at Jimma University discussing digital repositories and promoting scholarship through the convergence of local/global and digital/analogue contents.

Presentation for the 2015 National Church and Synagogue Library Association Conference. This presentation discusses disaster management in the Church and Synagogue Library.

Text of the keynote address delivered during the University of North Texas Lavender Graduation at the end of the Fall 2015 semester.

Presentation for the May 2015 Library Town Hall Meeting. This meeting discussed the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries current budget status and other related issues.

This poster explains the collaboration between the libraries at the University of North Texas and University of Florida in order to complete the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC). The TRAC is an assessment to demonstrate good practice as a trusted digital repository to its communities. The poster was featured at the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management in Osaka Japan.

This document details the steps taken by the University of North Texas' Digital Libraries in order to take a collaborative approach to the Trusted Repository Audit. It highlights UNT's collaboration with the University of Florida on a peer-review model and process in order to complete the Trusted Repository Audit Checklist (TRAC). This was part of a presentation given at the 11th International Conference on Knowledge Management in 2015.

Presentation for 2015 Higher Education Technology Forum put on by the North Texas Community College Consortium. This presentation discusses the UNT Libraries' evolution in relation to technology.

Presentation about ways that have been utilized to promote access to resources found at UNT Libraries. The presentation also includes a brief history of UNT Libraries' collections and ways to engage with the community. This presentation was shown at the 2015 Depository Library Council Meeting and Federal Depository Library Conference.

Slides from a presentation to the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Scholarly Communications Interest Group at the 2015 American Library Association (ALA) Midwinter Meeting. This presentation discusses a for-fee scholarly publishing service based in the library.

Poster presented at the 2015 Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference. This poster provides an overview of a recently launched scholarly publishing service at the University of North Texas.

Poster presentation for the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Annual Conference. This poster summarizes the results of a survey administered by the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries Cataloging and Metadata Services Department from October 27 through November 17, 2014. The purpose of the research study was to assess how Public Service employees rate the importance of Cataloging and Metadata Services activities, and how satisfied Public Service employees are with Cataloging and Metadata Services activities.