Purpose of this paperThe purpose of this study is to develop and evaluate a workflow for establishing name authority in uncontrolled collections. Design/methodology/approachWe developed a workflow incorporating command-line tools and tested it in our electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) collection. We narrowed the scope of the study to born-digital ETDs in the collection and to contributor names, including chairs and committee members. FindingsThis workflow can save staff time and allows for flexible implementation depending on staff numbers and skills as well as institutional needs. Originality/valueThis workflow could be used by other institutions with little or no modification, as it does not rely on specialized software or extensive expertise.

The University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries conducted a study on the value of the UNT Digital Library, including its UNT Scholarly Works institutional repository, to investigate the value of the UNT Libraries' digital repositories as perceived by UNT faculty, staff, and graduate students. This evaluation of the impact of the UNT Libraries'interventions begins a longitudinal view of the overall impact of these digital repositories in order to inform decisions and provide baseline measurements against which future assessment results can be compared. Findings include that an increase in awareness of the UNT Libraries' digital repositories is statistically associated with a greater likelihood of multiple types of use and contributions back to digital repositories. Also, graduate students are, as a whole, more likely to be aware of and use the UNT Libraries' digital repositories than faculty or staff.

The Portal to Texas History (http://texashistory.unt.edu) and the UNT Digital Library (http://digital.library.unt.edu) contain more than 445,000 items collectively, hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries. These collections include a variety of serial publications such as newsletters, magazines, scholarly journals, annual reports, and yearbooks. Many of these serials are key resources for the user groups of both repositories. In this paper, we discuss the importance of serials within our collections, some of the challenges, the standards we use, and how we leverage metadata to facilitate access to serials for diverse global users.

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