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UTA Data Repository Scope & Policy
(Central Library, The University of Texas Arlington, 2018-10-31)
Government Documents Collection Development Project: A Monumental Task
(2018-04)
PROJECT SUMMARY
BACKGROUND
UTA Libraries was designated a federal depository in 1963. For 50 years the library received physical copies of federal documents. In 2014, the library stopped receiving print documents and ...
Beyond Open Connections: Leveraging Information Literacy to Increase Impact of Open Education
(Open Education Global Conference, 2018)
For over a century, academic librarians in the United States have provided instruction designed to help patrons effectively navigate and use the resources and services provided by the library. Today we refer to this type ...
When You're "It": Preserving and Sharing the Family Archives
(2018-04-23)
Initially using digitization to make historical photographs, oral histories, and moving images accessible to the public in her role as a professional archivist, Leslie Wagner found it necessary to apply those same concepts ...
Expanding the Intellectual Property Knowledge Base at University Libraries: Collaborating with Patent and Trademark Resource Centers
(Association of College and Research Libraries, 2018-03-21)
Patent and Trademark Resource Centers are located in libraries throughout the U.S., with 43 being in academic libraries. With the importance of incorporating a knowledge of intellectual property (IP) and patent research ...
Maker Competencies and the Undergraduate Curriculum
(Higher Education Makerspaces Initiative, 2018-08-04)
The University of Texas at Arlington Libraries was awarded a $50,000 planning grant by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) for FY 2017-2018 allowing us to develop a pilot program to explore course integration ...
Creating Learning Opportunities in Open Education: An Exploration of the Intersections of Information Literacy and Scholarly Communication
(Pacific University Press, 2018)
Since publication of the Association of College & Research Libraries white paper on the intersections of scholarly communication and information literacy in 2013, a growing number of projects and programs embodying ...
Experiential Learning and Open Education: Partnering with Students to Evaluate OER Accessibility
(Pacific University Press, 2018)
This chapter focuses on an open textbook evaluation project undertaken by the Open Education Librarian and a student intern at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). UTA offers a Minor in Disability Studies, an ...
Final Report: Development of Web-Based Interactive Educational System Replacing the Traditional Textbook Based Instructional Approach
(2018)
Dr. Sharareh Kermanshachi, Assistant Professor in UTA's Department of Civil Engineering, received a UTA CARES grant in 2017. The grant supported creation of an OER to replace the commercial textbook previously used in a ...
Analysis and Assessment of Graduate Students’ Perception and Academic Performance Using Open Educational Resource (OER) Course Materials
(ASEE Annual Conference and Exposition, 2018)
Dr. Kermanshachi presented a conference paper about her UTA CARES grant project at the 2018 Annual American Society for Engineering Education Conference. She was also awarded a 2018-19 OER Research Fellowship from the Open ...