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Accessing the Inaccessible: Capturing and Re-Purposing Metadata Prior to Digitization to Ensure Adequate Description and Access

Description: Presented at the 2018 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries. This presentation provides a detailed look at how University of North Texas Libraries' Special Collections embarked upon a large-scale digitization project involving a portion of the highly requested A/V materials from the NBC-5/KXAS Television News collection, using a third-party vendor. This project included the use of snapshots to help repurpose metadata, then linked data tools in Excel and WikiMedia to create access to tape conten… more
Date: May 17, 2018
Creator: Pierce, Gregory & Niño, Ana
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[News Clip: Surtran]

Description: B-roll video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: September 20, 2018
Duration: 1 minute 08 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[NBC 5 & UNT Archive 2018 Sizzle Reel]

Description: This video is about how NBC 5 - Texas's first news station founded in 1948 when it was known as WBAP-TV - partnered up with University of North Texas Special Collections in 2014 to create an online news archive spanning the 70 years of the news station's existence. The NBC 5 archival collection is comprised of various audio-visual media, such as16 mm film, UMatic, Betacam, DVC-PRO, 2-inch quadruplex videotapes, negatives, slides, and photographs featuring the station's behind-the-scenes produc… more
Date: 2018
Duration: 4 minutes 36 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

[Participants at Suminagashi station]

Description: Photo of participants at the Japanese Book Making Workshop at UNT Willis Library on April 11, 2018 in the Library Forum (room 140). The event was part of UNT Libraries' 2018 National Library Week programming. They are gathered around the Suminagashi station. Suminagashi is a marbling technique that students and other attendees are using to dye the covers of their Japanese-style books.
Date: April 11, 2018

[Courtney Jacobs and attendees at workshop]

Description: Photo of Courtney E. Jacobs at the Japanese Book Making Workshop at UNT Willis Library on April 11, 2018 in the Library Forum (room 140). The event was part of UNT Libraries' 2018 National Library Week programming. Jacobs is teaching the students and attendees how to make prints with woodblocks. They are gathered around a table where the station has been set up and others are waiting for their chance to participate.
Date: April 11, 2018

[Jaimi Parker helping workshop participants]

Description: Photo of staff member Jaimi Parker and participants at the Japanese Book Making Workshop at Willis Library on April 11, 2018 in the Library Forum (room 140). The event was part of UNT Libraries' 2018 National Library Week programming. Parker is showing the students how to bind their books together using the classic Japanese stab-binding technique. Many more attendees of the event are working on their own books in the background of the photo.
Date: April 11, 2018

[Participants gathered around stamping station]

Description: Photo of participants at the Japanese Book Making Workshop at UNT Willis Library on April 11, 2018 in the Library Forum (room 140). The event was part of UNT Libraries' 2018 National Library Week programming. They are gathered around the table station where attendees learned how woodblock printing works and were able to decorate the covers and pages of their own book with the stamps.
Date: April 11, 2018

[Workshop participant holding up book]

Description: Photo of participant at the Japanese Book Making Workshop at UNT Willis Library on April 11, 2018 in the Library Forum (room 140). The event was part of UNT Libraries' 2018 National Library Week programming. The woman, a member of the Willis Library staff, is holding up her own finished book with a crane stamped on the front cover. Other attendees are visible behind her working on their own books.
Date: April 11, 2018

[Perri Hamilton and Marcia McIntosh during workshop]

Description: Photo of Perri Hamilton and Marcia McIntosh at the Japanese Book Making Workshop at UNT Willis Library on April 11, 2018 in the Library Forum (room 140). The event was part of UNT Libraries' 2018 National Library Week programming. They are at a drying station with their Suminagashi-style marbled book covers. Other workshop attendees are at the stations behind them.
Date: April 11, 2018

[Greg Pierce and Morgan Gieringer at workshop]

Description: Photo of Greg Pierce and Morgan Gieringer at the Japanese Book Making Workshop at UNT Willis Library on April 11, 2018 in the Library Forum (room 140). The event was part of UNT Libraries' 2018 National Library Week programming. They are standing at one of the workshop stations to the side of the room and students working in the library are visible through the windows behind them.
Date: April 11, 2018
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