This presentation will discuss why intellectual property rights, in the form of copyright law, are contradictory to science as an enterprise, and will draw on the example of Sci-Hub.

Presentation on the topic of microcard digitization presented at the annual meeting for the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL). This presentation discusses the opaque microcard format and a project conducted by the UNT Libraries to produce high-quality digital files from the format.

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the digitization of microfiche as part of the technical report digitization activities at the UNT Libraries.

Presentation delivered at the Technical Report Archive and Image Library (TRAIL) annual meeting held in Denton, Texas. This presentation discusses the metadata cleanup activities for the collection of technical reports from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA) which is hosted by the UNT Libraries for TRAIL.

Presentation for the 2015 International Conference on Information Communication Technologies (ICT) for Development, Education, and Training. This presentation discusses partnerships for building institutional/national capacity and initiatives at Addis Ababa University and the University of North Texas.

Presentation for the 2014 North American Serials Interest Group (NASIG) Annual Conference on the development of the University of North Texas (UNT)'s strategy for determining cancellations.

This presentation discusses selecting and assessing practicum students, the goals and competencies, learning objectives, and gives examples of necessary skills.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.

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.

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation recently funded a study of the landscape of usage data for open-access scholarly monographs and an investigation of the viability of creating a data trust for sharing of usage data among stakeholders in the publishing ecosystem. In spring 2019, the Book Industry Study Group (BISG) will publish a final white paper that takes into account feedback from the community during a consultation period. This presentation will provide a summary of the main findings and proposals of the forthcoming white paper.

Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IICP) General Assembly. This presentation discusses the URL nomination tool.

Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IICP) General Assembly. This presentation discusses web curation within institutions and dealing with researchers.

This presentation is a brief outline of the End-of-Term archiving project done as a collaboration between the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas Libraries, and the California Digital Library.

Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly. This presentation discusses current quality assurance practices in web archiving.

Presentation for the 2014 International Internet Preservation Consortium (IIPC) General Assembly. This presentation discusses building a collection of web archiving research articles.

This presentation discusses a collaborative project between the University of North Texas (UNT) and the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) to digitize 5,000 historically-significant, rare maps of the American southwest.

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 presentation contains an analysis of ~600 solicitation emails related to 317 scholarly journals received within a one-year period to assess the quality of publishing venues available.

This presentation discusses assessment techniques used to guide library service improvements. The assessments used are part of a triangulation method that uses three approaches of assessment in order to determine specific user needs and areas for improvement.

Presentation for Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019. This presentation discusses ways to enhance student assistants productivity and shares UNT's experiences, including simplifying workflows and making small changes in training that can go long ways in terms of improving students overall performances.

This presentation discusses the University of North Texas Libraries' efforts to identify, document, and increase access to hidden or obscured collections.

Presentation for the 2017 ALCTS Exchange Virtual Conference. This presentation explores multidimensional measures including percentage of expected use, percentage of expected holdings, and ratio of borrowings to holdings.

Discussion guide presentation for the 2017 ALCTS Exchange Virtual Conference. This guide explores multidimensional measures including percentage of expected use, percentage of expected holdings, and ratio of borrowings to holdings.

Presentation for Association for Recorded Sound Collections 53rd Annual Conference 2019. This presentation discusses about unofficial live show recordings, aka bootlegs, concert tapes, RoIOs, etc. The presentation answers various questions including, what is the collection, why is it important, how is it currently stored and classified, among others.