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Academic Librarians Creating Value through Commercialization Partnerships

Description: This presentation focuses on how the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries was able to develop a successful partnership with the UNT Office of Innovation and Commercialization (OIC) and move outside the Libraries’ normal sphere of influence to help create a patent internship program for students. It is a presentation for a contributed paper at the Texas Library Association 2020 Virtual Summer of Learning conference.
Date: Summer 2020
Creator: Dooley, Yvonne

Automating the Authority Control Process

Description: This presentation introduces ideas on how to handle authority control using a variety of tools, both paid and free. The presenter describes how their library handles authority control, describe vendors and programs, and demonstrate a few automated authority control processes using MarcEdit, Sierra, OCLC and a few other programs.
Date: May 26, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey

Collaborating on Scholarship

Description: The presentation examines the considerations and processes for collaborating on scholarship from the perspective of academic librarians. It includes how to choose team members, facilitate collaboration and organize all the elements of a project to create a successful publication or presentation. Also included are administrative responsibilities, thoughts on handling problems, and examples of delineating responsibilities. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference hel… more
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian

Collaborating on Scholarship

Description: Presentation for the UNT Libraries Career Development Workgroup. This presentation discusses the benefits of collaboration on scholarship with examples from the library environment. It presents an overview of the process as well as providing suggestions for those interested in collaborating on projects.
Date: March 3, 2020
Creator: Sassen, Catherine & Brannon, Sian

Design Tips & Tricks for Presentations and Posters

Description: Presentation that highlights the use of basic design principles when creating presentations and posters. It was organized by the UNT Libraries' Career Development Committee and held virtually on May 12, 2020.
Date: May 12, 2020
Creator: Barham, Rebecca

Empowering Student Workers Using Flipped and Agile Project Management

Description: Presentation introduces the concepts of Flipped Instruction and Agile Project Management and discusses how those methodologies may be applied to student roles in library and digital humanities projects. It was presented at the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) Together Wherever virtual event held on June 8-12, 2020.
Date: June 8, 2020
Creator: Stayton, Jennifer

High-Quality Diet of Journals: Comparison of Top-ranked with Most-used Journals at a Large Academic Library

Description: Presentation is a follow-up on work from the UNT Libraries regarding compiled data from the Journal Citation Reports (JCR) and its comparison to UNT holdings. Journal usage data has been added to provide a more complete answer to the original question posed previously. The presentation focuses less on the technology and steps for gathering this data, and more on the results and the limitations of such an analysis. It was presented at the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held on Au… more
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Hergert, Christopher; Byrne, Sephra & Harker, Karen

Making It Local: Developing a Local Usage Collection System

Description: Presentation on the creation of a locally-based system for collecting and displaying electronic resource usage data at the UNT Libraries. The process is discussed in-depth with goals, next steps, and links to tools and documentation. It was presented at the Electronic Resources & Libraries 2020 conference held in Austin, Texas.
Date: March 9, 2020
Creator: Harker, Karen & Hergert, Christopher

Managing Language Data @ UNT Digital Library: CoRSAL Collection

Description: Presentation presented at the Second International Workshop on Language Documentation and Digital Archiving, held at the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi, India. This presentation discusses how language data is being hosted by the UNT Digital Library for long-term preservation and access.
Date: February 17, 2020
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward

An Ontology Approach to Tourism Destinations in Ethiopia

Description: This presentation covers a study conducted on tourism in Ethiopia. The study used an Ontology approach to research how Ethiopian tourism destination information can be supported with a machine-readable and interoperable model, be made visible and accessible to both international and local tourists, and improve reusability, integrity, and retrieval of tourist information in Ethiopia.
Date: 2020-12-03/2020-12-05
Creator: Hussen, Tijani

Open Access and Scholarly Communication

Description: This presentation covers the background and definition, stakeholder roles, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities, and current/emerging trends in Open Access and Scholarly Communication.
Date: January 2, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Open Access and Scholarly Communications: Looking Ahead to a Post-Pandemic Future

Description: Presentation that covers open access in the context of Ethiopia. This presentation provides examples of the background of open access and scholarly communication, the policy frameworks in place (including the White House OSTP Call to Action), the challenges and opportunities in relation to developing nations, and the emerging trends in institutional initiatives in Ethiopia.
Date: May 2, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw

Open Access in the Age of Pandemic

Description: Presentation on the potential of open access to increase exposure and use of published research. The presentation includes sections on the impact of open access in relation to OA community initiatives, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the COVID-19 pandemic, and open access data.
Date: October 27, 2020
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Chang, Hsia-Ching; Hawamdeh, Suliman M.; Rorissa, Abebe; Assefa, Shimelis & Helge, Kris

Open Access Increases Educators Ability to Plan Equitable Curriculum: Global Context

Description: This presentation gives an overview of Open Access including its definition, basic assumptions, open access registries, technology and trends, technological structure, policy frameworks, challenges and opportunities. It then applies this to the need for developing countries' contributions to global knowledge production and creating institutional initiatives.
Date: 2020-10-14/2020-10-16
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw & Ford, Angela

Pedagogy for Practical Library Instruction – An Online Program

Description: This presentation highlights an online program developed to introduce academic librarians to pedagogy and describes the overall outline of the program, the structure of the modules, and the implementation plan for this program. It was presented at the 2020 Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference held virtually on August 7, 2020.
Date: August 7, 2020
Creator: Roy, Meranda M.

Preserving History By Building Access: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program

Description: Presentation on how to build digital newspaper collections via the Texas Digital Newspaper Program (TDNP) on The Portal to Texas History. It highlights grant opportunities that are available to support libraries in building access to their newspapers and demonstrates how to use the digital newspaper collections. It was presented at the Texas Library Association District 9 Fall 2020 meeting held virtually on October 29, 2020.
Date: October 29, 2020
Creator: Krahmer, Ana

Re-Opening the Library

Description: Presentation discussing how the UNT Libraries operated during Spring 2020 semester which was affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The library was labeled an essential service, so it continued operation by adapting services. It was presented during a webinar, "Re-opening the Library," organized by the Texas Digital Library on May 7, 2020.
Date: May 7, 2020
Creator: Venner, Mary Ann

E-Resource Cataloging: Challenges and Solutions

Description: In this presentation, catalogers from a large academic library share how they make e-resources discoverable through their approach to record quality assessment, batch editing with regular expressions in MarcEdit, and record load tracking. The presenters also provided handouts with helpful information about their processes and procedures.
Date: February 13, 2020
Creator: Wolf, Stacey; Baron, Adam; Berg, Jeremy; Sassen, Catherine & Yanowski, Kevin

So You Want to Print and Sell Open Textbooks?

Description: This presentation provides an overview of the landscape and factors to consider in choosing among the options for printing and selling an open textbook.
Date: June 17, 2020
Creator: Hawkins, Kevin S.
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