Presented at the 2016 Digital Library Federation (DLF) Forum. This presentation provides an overview of a pilot digitization skills training program for student assistants in the University of North Texas Libraries Digital Projects Lab

Presentation within a panel on social media during the Third International Workshop on Web Archiving and Digital Libraries at the 2016 Joint Conferece for Digital Libraries. This presentation discusses the inclusion of twitter data within the UNT Data Repository.

Presentation for the 2016 Central Plains Network for Digital Asset Management Conference, discussing the details of how an outreach plan was created for the UNT Scholarly Works collection using institutional data to identify gaps in university participation.

Presentation for the 2016 US Electronic Theses and Dissertation Association Conference describing the use of additional repository collections to capture supplemental works and make visible the labor of producing a thesis or dissertation.

Presentation for the Toulouse Graduate School workshop series discussing online academic profiles.

This is the collection for the End of Term Presidential Harvest 2016, an effort by the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive, George Washington University Libraries, Stanford University Libraries, and the U.S. Government Printing Office to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the presidential term that ended January 20, 2017. This collection documents federal agencies' presence on the World Wide Web during the transition of Presidential administrations.

This is the official website for the University of North Texas. It includes all sites within the UNT domain and information about university admissions, financial aid, departments, research, athletics, libraries, administration, and student, faculty, and alumni resources.

This poster details a study of index terms in UNT's Electronic Thesis and Dissertation collection to understand the effectiveness of terms in matching users' queries.

This presentation discusses the End of Term Archive and methods for identifying and selecting in-scope content (including using registries, indices, and crowdsourcing URL nominations ["seeds"] through a web application called the URL Nomination Tool), new strategies for capturing web content (including crawling, browser rendering, and social media tools), access models including both an online portal as well as research datasets for use in computational analysis, and preservation data replication between partners using new export APIs and experimental tools developed as part of the IMLS-funded WASAPI project.

This presentation reflects on the latest efforts toward improving the digital delivery of "hyperlocal" news in libraries, followed by open discussion, with a focus on multi-institutional collaborations, leveraging existing platforms and resources, and interoperability via IIIF for digital newspapers.

This presentation with notes provides an overview of the development process for building a local API using Sierra catalog data. This overview includes a discussion of terms, history of the project, and example applications.

This presentation discusses the increase of URLS within electronic theses and dissertations at UNT, and a comparison of queries through metadata and full-text discovery.

This presentation discusses trends and initiatives in promoting open access and open educational resources.

This paper analyzes the quality and effectiveness of indexing terms – both authorized terms from controlled vocabularies and free-text keywords – used to succinctly describe the content of the electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs).

This presentation discusses the collaboration between Tarleton Library and Stephenville Public Library for a grant to digitize two early newspapers previously only available on microfilm, and collaborative partnership models for digital preservation of materials and grant applications.

This doctoral dissertation applies user experience and complex systems theory, combining eye-tracking data with verbal and observational data from user test instances, to study the effectiveness of metadata records that accompany digital primary source objects available on The Portal to Texas History.

This paper reports on exploratory investigations by the Texas Digital Newspaper Program to understand aggregate patterns in the generation of born-digital news editions by analyzing technical metadata extracted from the 3 million pages currently in the preservation collection.

Presentation for the 2016 IFLA News Media Satellite Meeting. This presentation examines the statewide collection of newspaper PDFs through the Texas Digital Newspaper Program at UNT to support preservation and access planning at UNT Libraries.

This presentation provides a breakdown of current faculty contributions to the UNT Scholarly Works collection by department, tenure-status, and involvement with non-traditional works such as Honors College collaborations and patents.

This presentation discusses potential plans to expand student collections in the UNT Scholarly Works collection.

Photograph of the small park near Old Alton Bridge in Argyle, Texas. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.

Photograph of ground floor of the Highland Street Parking Garage on the University of North Texas (UNT) campus in Denton, Texas. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.

Photograph of the Old Alton Bridge Trail near Argyle, Texas. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.

Photograph of the park area near Old Alton Bridge in Alton, Texas. This photograph is a stitched 360-degree panoramic image.