Shannon Willis

Funded Research Projects

• Byrd Williams Photography Digital Archive – Phase III: $25,000
  TexTreasures Grant sponsored by Texas State Library and Archives Commission
  Morgan Gieringer, Principal Investigator; Shannon Willis, Co-PI
• Byrd Williams Photography Digital Archive – Phase II: $25,000
  TexTreasures Grant sponsored by Texas State Library and Archives Commission
  Morgan Gieringer, Principal Investigator; Shannon Willis, Co-PI
• Byrd Williams Photography Digital Archive: $25,000
  TexTreasures Grant sponsored by Texas State Library and Archives Commission
  Morgan Gieringer, Principal Investigator; Shannon Willis, Co-PI
• Cost and Feasibility of FADGI Compliance for the Digital Projects Unit: $2,441.00
  Dean’s Innovation Grant sponsored by University of North Texas
  Shannon Willis, Principal Investigator; Marcia McIntosh, Co-PI

Publications

• “The perils of complexity: A multi-stage study to determine necessary images for digitized scrapbook representation.” Shannon Willis and Marcia McIntosh. Visual Resources Association Bulletin (2021). https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1828570/
• “The Production Log: A Digital Imaging Capacity Replication Project.” Marcia McIntosh and Shannon Willis. Journal of Digital Media Management (2018). https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1475507/
• “Double Double: Methods for Shared Management of a Digitization Lab.” Marcia McIntosh and Shannon Willis. Against the Grain (2018). https://core.ac.uk/reader/323312510

Presentations

• “The perils of complexity: A multi-stage study to determine necessary images for digitized scrapbook representation.” March 2021. With Marcia McIntosh, Visual Resources Association Annual Conference.  https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1783011/
• “What Have We Learned?: A Reflection on a Scrapbook Representation User Study.” November 2020. With Marcia McIntosh, Digital Library Federation Forum.
• “Adventures in Determining a Digitization Lab’s Capacity.” October 2019. With Marcia McIntosh, Digital Library Federation Forum, Tampa, FL. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1616561/
• “Tiny Tweaks: Small Interventions to Help Improve Student Worker Performance.” May 2019. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1506766/
• “What do the people want? A user study to establish cultural heritage scrapbook digitization practices.” April 2019. With Marcia McIntosh, Multi-Disciplinary Information Research Symposium, Denton, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1506770/
• “User Directed Scrapbook Digitization,” October 2018. With Marcia McIntosh, Digital Library Federation Forum, Las Vegas, NV. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1310105/
• “Collaborative Management in Libraries.” August 2018. With Marcia McIntosh, Cross Timbers Library Consortium Conference, Denton, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1531982/
• “Exploring our Collections: The Many Colors of the UNT Digital Library.” May 2018. With Pamela Andrews and Marcia McIntosh, Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1164524/
• “Piloting Photogrammetry in Digital Libraries.” May 2018. With Marcia McIntosh, Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1164513/
• “I am not a photographer: one librarian’s journey toward understanding FADGI, image quality, and digitization best practices.” May 2017. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc980817/
• “Replicating Processes: Testing the Project Points System at UNT Digital Projects.” May 2017. With Marcia McIntosh, Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, Texas, United States of America. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc980809/
• “Standardizing Quality Control and Visual Evaluation of Partner Created Content.” July 2016. Cross Timbers Library Collaborative Conference, Fort Worth, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc861696/
• “Rethinking ‘But This is How We’ve Always Done It!’” May 2016. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc848637/

Posters

• “Hidden Gems: A Partnership Between the Digitization Lab and Photography Studio Art at UNT.” May 2019. With Melissa Gamez-Herrera. Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, United States of America. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc1506777/