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Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: New Reports and Findings

Description: This report looks at how staff at eight academic institutions gained new insight about how students and faculty use their libraries, and how the staff are using these findings to improve library technologies, space, and services. Participatory design is a relatively recent approach to understanding library user behavior. It is based on techniques used in anthropological and ethnographic observation. The report is based on a series of presentations at the second CLIR Seminar on Participatory Des… more
Date: February 2014
Creator: Council on Library and Information Resources
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries
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A Guide to the Best Revenue Models and Funding Sources for your Digital Resources

Description: With the support of the Jisc-led Strategic Content Alliance (SCA), Ithaka S+R has developed this guide to support those who are actively managing digital projects and are seeking to develop funding models that will permit them to continue investing in their projects, for the benefit of their users, over time. This report updates Sustainability and Revenue Models for Online Academic Resources (2008) in two major ways: first, by expanding the list of revenue models covered in order to take into a… more
Date: March 2014
Creator: Maron, Nancy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Does Every Research Library Need a Digital Humanities Center?

Description: The essay discusses specific concerns of digital humanists in hopes of bridging the gap between how library directors and digital humanities researchers think. It suggests many ways to respond to the needs of digital humanists, and creating a Digital Humanities center is appropriate in relatively few circumstances. The essay recommends that a “Digital Humanities-friendly” environment may be more effective than a Digital Humanities Center but that library culture may need to evolve in order for … more
Date: February 2014
Creator: Schaffner, Jennifer & Erway, Ricky
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Drew Gaines at Heart of Mexico event]

Description: Photograph of Drew Gaines standing on stage at the Heart of Mexico event in Dallas, Texas. Gaines worked on the 'Life by Life' and 'Catching the Wind' stories from the project. The attendees are visible looking towards him and the projector screen next to him. On the screen is a photograph taken while in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Jeff Woo at Heart of Mexico event]

Description: Photograph of Jeff Woo standing on stage at the Heart of Mexico event in Dallas, Texas. Woo was the one in charge of video production for the 'Life by Life' story that was part of the project. Event attendees are visible looking towards him and the screen beside him on the stage that displays a photograph.
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Tom Huang on stage at Heart of Mexico event]

Description: Photograph of Tom Huang, an editor at The Dallas Morning News, standing on stage for the Heart of Mexico event in Dallas, Texas. Next to Huang is a projector screen that has a slideshow of pictures prepared with the words "Heart of Mexico" on the largest.
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Thorne Anderson at Heart of Mexico event]

Description: Photograph of Thorne Anderson, a Mayborn Photojournalism professor and Heart of Mexico project director, standing on stage at the event. Next to him is a projector screen showing photos and the words "Heart of Mexico; Stories; The Team; The Project; Español".
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Contributor to Heart of Mexico Project]

Description: Photograph of one of the contributors to the Heart of Mexico project speaking at the event in Dallas, Texas. The event attendees are visible looking towards her and the screen next to her that is showing a photo of a beekeeper in Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Contributor at Heart of Mexico event]

Description: Photograph of one of the contributors to the Heart of Mexico project on stage at the event in Dallas, Texas. He is standing next to a projector screen with a beekeeper on it and the audience is somewhat visible in the front.
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Heart of Mexico event attendees]

Description: Photograph of attendees at the Heart of Mexico event. Alfredo Corchado, a bureau chief for the Dallas Morning News and mentor with the Heart of Mexico program, is standing on the right-hand side of the picture. On the wall behind the group is a piece of art depicting Frida Kahlo.
Date: 2014
Creator: Clark, Junebug
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Small Town America in World War II: War Stories From Wrightsville, Pennsylvania

Description: Historians acknowledge that World War II touched every man, woman, and child in the United States. In Small Town America in World War II, Ronald E. Marcello uses oral history interviews with civilians and veterans to explore how the citizens of Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, responded to the war effort. Interviews with citizens and veterans are organized in sections on the home front; the North African-Italian, European, and Pacific theatres; stateside military service; and occupation in Germany. … more
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Date: April 2014
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.
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Partner: UNT Press

Captain W.W. Withenbury's 1838-1842 Red River Reminiscences

Description: A selection of letters written to the Cincinnati Commercial newspaper from 1870-1871 about steamboat travel on the Red River in 1838-1841. W. W. Withenbury was a famous river boat captain during the mid-1800s. In retirement, he wrote a series of letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, under the title "Red River Reminiscences." Jacques Bagur has selected and annotated 39 letters describing three steamboat voyages on the upper Red River from 1838 to 1842. Withenbury was a master of charact… more
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Date: April 2014
Creator: Bagur, Jacques D.
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Partner: UNT Press

D-day in History and Memory: the Normandy Landings in International Remembrance and Commemoration

Description: Over the past sixty-five years, the Allied invasion of Northwestern France in June 1944, known as D-Day, has come to stand as something more than a major battle. The assault itself formed a vital component of Allied victory in the Second World War. D-Day developed into a sign and symbol; as a word it carries with it a series of ideas and associations that have come to symbolize different things to different people and nations. As such, the commemorative activities linked to the battle offer a w… more
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Date: April 2014
Creator: Dolski, Michael R.; Edwards, Sam & Buckley, John
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Partner: UNT Press

In the Permanent Collection: Poems

Description: Trying to make sense of a disordered world, Stefanie Wortman's debut collection examines works of art as varied as casts of antique sculpture, 19th-century novels, and even scenes from reality television to investigate the versions of order that they offer. These deft poems yield moments of surprising levity even as they mount a sharp critique of human folly.
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Date: 2014
Creator: Wortman, Stefanie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press
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