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.

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.

Presentation delivered at the 2018 Texas Library Association Annual Conference. This panel presentation provides experiences with Tableau and other visualizations for library assessment purposes.

Poster detailing the Click to Count program at University of North Texas Libraries in which permalinks are provided to gain more accurate usage data from faculty.

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.

This chapter describes the development and use of a unique collection assessment tool, the Collection Map, to track the needs of academic disciplines and their fulfillment.

Panel proposal for iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. This proposal outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information, including a brief discussion of the need for digital preservation efforts and an overview of the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project.

Presentation at iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. The presentation outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information.

As libraries continue to reinvent themselves to remain relevant, spaces, services, and instruction targeted specifically for the needs of the graduate student community are essential. This chapter describes how the Library Research Support Services Department (LRSS) of the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has collaborated with The Toulouse Graduate School (TGS) to support graduate students through the process of achieving the following three milestones: (1) writing the dissertation or thesis proposal, (2) completing the writing of the dissertation or thesis, and (3) developing an elevator speech for potential employers.

This report documents the Call and response: Engaging with African American male students through culturally relevant music resources project funded through the 2017 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report describes project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.

Information technology continues to evolve, libraries may not always wait on vendors or third parties to provide solutions for their diverse local needs.This article discusses the need for libraries to develop in-house Software and based on the University of North Texas Libraries experiences, it provides key considerations for the successful implementation.

This article describes how measures of need, participation, satisfaction, and impact are employed to assess many aspects of a professional development program in a large academic library.

This article presents an overview of the End of Term 2016 Presidential Web Archive conducted at the end of the second Obama presidential term. It presents the workflow for this collaborative project as well as lessons learned.

Annotated bibliography containing scholarship exploring the connections between literacy, pedagogy, philosophy, and theory in librarianship.

This website is a digital annotated bibliography that contains resources for the subject librarians and liaisons at the UNT Libraries. This repository is a digital copy of an annotated bibliography produced for the UNT Libraries’ Subject Librarian Workgroup. This digital platform allows for collaboration between the UNT liaisons to produce a list of resources for self-directed learning in pedagogy and theory in librarianship that may inform librarianship practices at the UNT Libraries.

This presentation is an overview of the 3Dhotbed Project that seeks to enhance book history instruction by providing access to affordable teaching tools and related materials for pedagogical purposes. It was presented at the Born to Be 3D: Digital Stewardship of Intrinsic 3D Data conference held by the Library of Congress on November 2, 2018.

Presentation for the Cedar Hill Genealogy Society. This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History can facilitate genealogical research.

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.

This presentation was delivered as part of a literary conference on "Monstrosity and the Topography of Fear" sponsored by the Society for Comparative Literature and the Arts. It argues that the Alex Garland film Annihilation (2018) and the Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda comic series Monstress (2015) both enact post-human dramas of colonization by the Other, figured as both alien and natural forces, but leave room for the possibility of "hybrid bodies" that allow for integration of the human and the non-human, and a mutual agency that might be productive of new ways of existing and acting in harmony.

This presentation was delivered as part of a panel on "Comics and the Epistolary Tradition" at the 2018. Popular Culture Association National Conference. The panel was sponsored by the Comics & Comic Art section of the PCA. It discusses the theme of "correspondence" in the comic series Harrow County, considering the term as part of its narrative and supplementary content, including letters from readers. It argue that the comic creates a shared community of artists, readers, and characters to confront issues of trauma, memory, and childhood.