Texas Conference on Digital Libraries Proceedings
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Item Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library(2018-05-16) Andrews, Pamela; McIntosh, Marcia; Willis, ShannonThis 24x7 presentation discusses a combination of outreach initiatives to promote use of digital collection items: #ColorOurCollections and Twitter. #ColorOurCollections is an initiative to promote the use of digital collections to a general audience by encouraging institutions to convert images within their collections into black and white drawings that can be used as coloring pages. These images are then promoted through Twitter via #ColorOurCollections. As many of these collections are viewed primarily as resources for scholarship, advertising images as coloring pages invites more potential digital collection users to increase engagement with held items. Using the #ColorOurCollections initiative, selected items were converted into black and white coloring pages. To further increase their visibility, a twitter bot was created to periodically tweet the images. After the #ColorOurCollections initiative has ended, this bot can be repurposed to advertise other items from the UNT Digital Library, including the institutional repository. This presentation describes the image conversion and twitter bot creation processes.Item UNT Libraries ETD Citation Analysis Project(2017-05-24) Andrews, Pamela; Klein, Janette; Harker, Karen; Alemneh, Daniel; University of North TexasThis presentation will explore the project plan for an upcoming citation analysis of University of North Texas Libraries' Electronic Thesis and Dissertation (ETD) Collection. The goal of this project is to create and implement a method for conducting citation analysis on ETDs for collection development purposes. The first stage of our project will be an analysis of ETDs for citations using items from the digital library. As the Portal to Texas History was launched in 2002, this will define our corpus sample from 2002 to present, providing over 6,000 ETDs for analysis. This pilot will allow us to test our method on a specific URL string target before expanding to collect broader citation data for analysis. In this presentation, I will briefly outline our goals, pilot study, and preliminary methodology.