Sustaining your Organization’s Future: Mentoring and Succession Planning in Libraries

Webinar for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine. This presentation discusses results of a recent survey of librarians on the prevalence of succession and mentoring plans in academic, public, school, and special libraries, and includes conclusions, best practices, and takeaways for increased mentoring and succession planning
Date: March 14, 2018
Creator: Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library

3DHotbed Project 2017-2018 Update

Presentation for the 2018 Day of Digital Humanities at the University of North Texas Libraries. This presentation provides an overview of the 3D History of the Book Education (3D Hotbed) project and an update on future developments.
Date: March 6, 2018
Creator: McIntosh, Marcia; Jacobs, Courtney E. & O'Sullivan, Kevin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette

Presentation for the 2018 Electronic Resources & Libraries Annual Conference. This presentation discusses how you can advocate for your library while maintaining vendor relationships.
Date: March 16, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library

The impact of library instruction on undergraduate student success: A four-year study

Presentation at the 2018 Texas Library Association. This presentation reflects on a four-year study of data from a freshman level English composition course to examine possible correlations between participation in a library instruction session and student success.
Date: April 4, 2018
Creator: Hargis, Carol; Leuzinger, Julie & Rowe, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library

Impediments, Partners, and Proposals: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals

Presentation for the 2018 Transforming Libraries for Graduate Students Conference. This presentation shares the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ experience of creating and refashioning workshops to prepare graduate students to write their dissertation or thesis proposals.
Date: March 23, 2018
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Serenity Now! Overcoming the Fear of Negative Evaluation

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Women in Higher Education Annual Conference. This presentation discusses fear of negative evaluation (FNE), including perceptions of FNE and ways to overcome it.
Date: April 16, 2018
Creator: Brannon, Sian; Crawford, Laurel & Leuzinger, Julie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs: Project Meerkat

Slides presented during the panel “Approaches to Tracking the Impacts of Library- and Press-published Monographs” at the Library Publishing Forum 2018. This presentation describes the impetus behind Project Meerkat, a publishing analytics data alliance.
Date: May 22, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Design Thinking for Libraries: Strategies, Tools and a Case Study

Presentation for the 2018 Art Libraries Society of North America Annual Conference. This presentation focuses on elements from the designer's toolkit to solve problems in libraries, with examples of how a user-centered approach can transform library services, products, and spaces.
Date: February 26, 2018
Creator: Smith, Susan & Barham, Rebecca
System: The UNT Digital Library

Applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process to an Institutional Repository Collection

Presentation for the 2018 ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation applies the analytic hierarchy process to evaluate collection development strategies for an institutional repository.
Date: June 4, 2018
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Harker, Karen & Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

A business model for author-pays publishing

Presentation for the 2018 Association of University Presses Annual Meeting. This presentation describes the business model for Aquiline Books, a University of North Texas Libraries publishing service.
Date: June 17, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Partners and Proposal Readiness: Preparing Graduate Students to Start Their Thesis and Dissertation Proposals

Presentation for the 2018 STEM Librarians South conference. This presentation. This presentation shares experiences from the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries’ workshops to prepare STEM graduate students to write their dissertation or thesis proposals.
Date: July 20, 2018
Creator: O'Toole, Erin
System: The UNT Digital Library

The OA2020 Expression of Interest

Presentation for the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Annual Conference. OA2020 is an international initiative that supports institutions committed to a large-scale shift toward open access to the scholarly journal literature. Institutions that sign the Expression of Interest commit to making a good-faith effort to devise and implement practical strategies and actions for transitioning their funding for subscribing to journals to supporting open access. This lightning talk provides and overview of the OA2020 initiative and related resources to help guide decision-making on how to redirect library funding.
Date: August 10, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

It's in the Bag: Creating Sustainability in the Faculty Book Delivery Service

Presentation for the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Annual Conference. This presentation describes the University of North Texas Libraries Access Services Department's development of a sustainable faculty delivery service.
Date: August 10, 2018
Creator: Cornell, Emily; Brand, Rebecca; Keshmiripour, Setareh; Cunningham, Chris & Johnston, Pamela
System: The UNT Digital Library

Vendor Relations: Evolving Ethos & Etiquette

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Annual 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: August 10, 2018
Creator: Rodriguez, Allyson & Crawford, Laurel
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tableau: Interactive Data Visualizations For Your Library

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This panel presentation provides experiences with Tableau and other visualizations for library assessment purposes.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Raborn, Karen; Szentkalyi, Zoltan & Scalf, Heather
System: The UNT Digital Library

Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information

Presentation at iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. The presentation outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information.
Date: September 25, 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie; Graebner, Carla; Zarndt, Frederick; McCain, Edward; Matheson, Scott; Etkin, Cynthia et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Government Documents for the Family Historian

Presentation for the Tulsa City-County Library. This presentation discusses how government information can be used for genealogical research and example information types found within government documents.
Date: July 21, 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie & Lupardus, Andy
System: The UNT Digital Library

History 9-1-1: How University of North Texas Libraries Save Newspaper Runs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Presentation for the 2018 International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions International News Media Conference. This presentation describes how the Texas Digital Newspaper Program partners with other libraries and museum to preserve materials, and how this can act as a safeguard after natural disasters in the area.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
System: The UNT Digital Library

Our Users, Our Selves: Evaluating user experience on The Portal to Texas History

Presentation for the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation describes the development and results of a usability study to understand how users navigate The Portal to Texas History.
Date: April 5, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Mangum, Jake
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Portal to Texas History: Walking in the Footprints of History

Presentation for the Cedar Hill Genealogy Society. This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History can facilitate genealogical research.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Understanding Open Access Ebook Usage: Toward a Common Framework

Slides accompanying the panel presentation “Understanding Open Access Ebook usage: Toward a Common Framework” presented at the 2018 Charleston Conference: Issues in Book and Serial Acquisition.
Date: November 9, 2018
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing the Success of a Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians

Presentation for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. This presentation describes the assessment of a mentoring program at an academic library.
Date: December 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine
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
System: The UNT Digital Library