In this presentation, the author gives the background, goals, process, challenges, and next steps of the Texas Topographic Map Project. For this project, the University of North Texas Libraries' Digital Projects Unit is digitizing topographic maps to be included in The Portal to Texas History.

Presentation for the 2014 American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference as part of the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services (ALCTS) Cataloging and Classification Research Interest Group sponsored program. This presentation discusses a study on the discoverability of ebooks in library catalogs.

This presentation was part of a program discussing applications of traditional sociological and anthropological research methods to the study of libraries, librarians and library use. This presentation discusses a user-centered study conducted about the UNT Libraries.

Presentation for the 2011 American Library Association Annual Conference discussing assessments of library support for distance learning at the University of North Texas (UNT). The methods used include LibQUAL+ surveys, focus groups, and ethnographic studies.

Presentation for the 2018 American Library Association Annual Conference. This presentation discusses University of North Texas Libraries' approach to open access content from a collection development viewpoint.

This overview of the grant-funded project was given as a lightning-round presentation during the panel "Giving New Life to Old Books: The NEH/Mellon Humanities Open Book Program" at the 2016 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses.

Slides presented during panel “Four Case Studies, Four Ways: Highlights from AAUP's Review of OA Projects” at the 2017 annual meeting of the Association of American University Presses. This presentation by the principal investigator of this grant-funded project describes how we chose the topic of Texas and Oklahoma, what has surprised him about working with outside organizations and presses, what the challenges of working with outside organizations and presses have been, and what the good things about working with outside organizations have been.

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Summer Meeting. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaborative approaches to address scholarly communications and digital curation challenges.

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group Summer 2014 Meeting. This presentation discusses scholarly publishing activities at the University of Michigan (UM) Libraries and library publishing service ideas at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries.

Presented at Data Power 2017. This presentation describes the vision for a cooperative of stakeholder institutions called the Publishing Analytics Data Alliance.

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.

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.

Presentation for the 2017 American Library Association annual conference. This presentation contains an overview of digital collections and preservation efforts at the University of North Texas Libraries.

This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History serves as a digital preservation infrastructure and as a community identity preservation vehicle.

Presented at the 2017 Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Conference. This seminar focuses on work extending bibliographical pedagogy through additive manufacturing

Presentation for the 2017 North American Serials Interest Group. This presentation discusses the implementation of an error reporting link within the Summon web-scale discovery service, and the resultant troubleshooting workflows, types of errors encountered, and causes of frequently encountered errors.

Presentation for the 2017 Texas Conference on Institutional Repositories. This lightning round presentation describes the creation of a database for deciphering and cataloging signatures for recently-digitized theses and dissertations.

Presentation for the 2015 Texas Association of School Library Administrators. This presentation discusses teaching information literacy and a performance based cycle.

This presentation discusses the PREMIS Event Service. The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries has created a digital library infrastructure that is designed using the Curation Micro Services methodology for building repositories. Based on modular components designed for reuse and re-configuration the authors propose a general-purpose preservation event logging system using the PREMIS Event and Agent data model.

This presentation discusses networking and career development. It includes information about becoming involved in professional organizations, attending conferences, creating business cards, and staying in contact with others in the profession.

Presentation for the Center for Research Libraries (CRL) Global Resources Roundtable. This presentation discusses the Chronicles in Preservation Project and born-digital activities at the University of North Texas (UNT).

Presentation for the 2011 International Conference on Open Repositories. This presentation discusses the results of a study into the persistence and availability of web resources referenced from papers in scholarly repositories. Memento makes it possible to automate discovery of archived resources and to consider the time between the publication of the research and the archiving of the reference URLs.

This presentation discusses lessons learned from an Electronic Resource Management System (ERMS).

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Summer Meeting. This presentation discusses faculty and scholarly communication.