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Recovery.gov [2009-2015]: Website for the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, a non-partisan, non-political agency established by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) intended to provide information and oversight related to the distribution and spending of Hurricane Sandy funds. It contains information about the board's activities, as well as funding data and information for funding recipients. This archive includes multiple captures of the Recovery.gov domain over the course of six years.
[Official Portal of Texas and TRAIL Service]: Series of websites created by Texas state government agencies (within the .state.tx.us domain) including the "Portal of Texas" list of resources and information. It also includes an interactive Texas Records and Information Locator (TRAIL) search service compiled by the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC), providing access to state government information available digitally.
GlobalChange.gov [2009-2010]: Website for the U.S. Global Change Research Program, a multi-agency initiative to research, predict, and respond to human-induced and natural climate changes. It includes information about the program's activities and related resources. This archive includes multiple captures of the domain during 2009 and 2010.
Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas [2010-2023]: Website for the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, which provides information and services to ensure freedom of speech and open government. It includes information about the organization as well as relevant court cases and legal documentation, news, and other resources. This archive includes multiple captures of the domain starting in 2010.
The lost generation: World War I poetry selected from the Donald Thomas War Poetry Collection: Donald Lee Thomas was born in Dallas, Texas in 1943. Before graduating high school he enlisted, at age 17, in the U.S. Navy, serving several tours of duty before being ordered to Vietnam in 1968. There he served as part of Medical Unit Self-Contained Transportable ONE, a joint Navy and Marine Corps crew which operated an experimental inﬂ atable hospital with jet turbine engines. He was awarded the Navy Achievement Medal with Combat “V” for his service in Vietnam. In 1972 Mr. Thomas graduated with a Master’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from the University of North Texas and brieﬂy joined the library faculty of the University of Arizona before being accepted for commissioning in the Navy Medical Service Corp in 1973. In his ﬁrst commissioned position as Assistant Chairman of the Educational Resources Department at the Naval Medical Center of Bethesda, Maryland his duties included management of the professional library. Mr. Thomas retired from the Navy in 1986 to pursue his interest in librarianship. He served in faculty librarian positions at Baylor Health Science Library and Texas A&M University before taking an administrative position with the Harris County Public Library System where he has responsibility for Financial Services to 26 libraries. The University of North Texas Libraries acquired the Donald Thomas War Poetry Collection in 2015. The collection contains over 900 volumes focusing on war poetry, speciﬁcally English and American poetry related to World War I. Although the collection includes many well-known poets, the strength of the collection is in work produced by lesser-known poets which were less frequently collected by libraries and diﬃcult if not impossible to ﬁnd today. During the 40 years Mr. Thomas has been a collector he has established relationships with booksellers overseas and become quite adept at ﬁnding “hidden treasures” which others might …
Ordered West: The Civil War Exploits of Charles A. Curtis: Accounts of Charles Curtis, who served in the 5th United States Infantry on the New Mexico and Arizona frontier. This is edited version version of serial installments (originally published in newspapers from 1877-1880) with the addition of biographical information and some historical context, as well as some reorganization to read chronologically and some normalization of language and spelling. Index starts on page 561.
All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music: Historical account of musicians in Texas, grouped by region, describing "underappreciated" artists as well as some famous artists. Each chapter provides anecdotes and biographical information about an artist or musical group. Index starts on page 299.
UNT Libraries Dean's Wiki: Suite of wiki pages maintained by Dr. Martin Halbert, during his tenure at the Univesity of North Texas Libraries (October 2009-May 2017). The pages include personal information about Dr. Halbert as well as updates on library policies and news, such as strategic plans, program updates, and commentaries on current events.
Special Education: A Beginner's Guide to Serving All Students: This collection of writings from preservice teachers at the University of North Texas is intended as a brief guide to special education. Through an interview with special education expert and diagnostician, Jennifer Cantu, M.Ed., unpack nuances within the field of special education. Intended to be both a starting point and an ongoing reference source for educators new to service of special needs students, this book seeks to instill a sense of direction, pride, and accomplishment as ones take some early steps toward effectively serving special education learners. The book also show what special needs students can achieve through individualized accommodations and modifications. The four main sections of the book include: Understanding the basic rights and language of special education -- Understanding disability conditions and demonstrating how to meet the individual needs of a student -- Interview with a special education expert, Jennifer Cantu, diagnostician, Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD, Texas -- Acquiring special education certification in Texas.
Understanding Metadata: What is Metadata, and What is it For?: This book provides a comprehensive overview of information about an item's creation, name, topic, features, and more updates NISO's 2004 advice on the subject and follows on the Research Data Management Primer published in 2015. It demystifies a type of information that is ubiquitous in our lives but that can be challenging to produce, store, and understand. Coverage includes topics such as metadata types, standardization, and use in the cultural heritage sector and in the broader world. The Primer is accompanied by plentiful examples of metadata at work.
End of Term Presidential Harvest 2012: This is the collection for the End of Term Presidential Harvest 2012, an effort by the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive, and the U.S. Government Printing Office to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the presidential term that ended January 20, 2013. This collection documents federal agencies' presence on the World Wide Web during the transition of Presidential administrations.
End of Term Presidential Harvest 2016: This is the collection for the End of Term Presidential Harvest 2016, an effort by the Library of Congress, the California Digital Library, the University of North Texas Libraries, the Internet Archive, George Washington University Libraries, Stanford University Libraries, and the U.S. Government Printing Office to preserve public United States Government web sites at the end of the presidential term that ended January 20, 2017. This collection documents federal agencies' presence on the World Wide Web during the transition of Presidential administrations.
Connecting Soul, Spirit, Mind, and Body: A Collection of Spiritual and Religious Perspectives and Practices in Counseling: This edited volume presents spiritual and religious perspectives and practices that can be integrated into counseling, written by experts in the field. Included are topics such as transpersonal experiences, prayer, meditation, and non-traditional spiritual approaches.
Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries: The publication summarizes the results of a needs assessment and gap analysis of digitization activities by public libraries and state library agencies in the United States. The report outlines key findings from surveys of U.S. public libraries and state library agencies, and provides observations and recommendations for future exploration in the area of supporting digitization efforts in public libraries.
State Library Administrative Agencies Survey: Fiscal Year 2014: The State Library Administrative Agencies Survey: Fiscal Year 2014 report provides a view of the condition of state library administrative agencies in the 50 states and the District of Columbia for Fiscal Year 2014. The data includes state library agency identification, governance, public service hours, service outlets, collections, library service transactions, library development transactions, services to other libraries in the state, allied operations, staff, income, expenditures, and electronic services and information. State libraries administer federal funds through the IMLS Grants to States program and play a crucial role in helping libraries within their state meet the demand for content and services by establishing statewide plans for library services, investing in technology and content, and providing support for local programming. While the state libraries continued to offer a wide array of library services in 2014, the study results showed a multi-year pattern of decreases in revenues, expenditures, and staffing that coincided with the Great Recession of 2007-2009. The revenue from federal, state, and other sources to state library agencies totaled $1.1 billion in FY 2014, a 17 percent decrease in revenue from FY 2004.The report is useful to Chief Officers of State Library Agencies (COSLA), policymakers in the executive and legislative branches of federal and state governments, government and library administrators at the federal, state, and local levels, the American Library Association and its members or customers, library and public policy researchers, the public, journalists, and others.
Social Circumstance and Aesthetic Achievement: Contextual Studies in Richard Wright’s Native Son: This collection of essays on Richard Wright’s Native Son developed from a research-oriented, upper- division University of North Texas Honors College course, spring 2015. It contains the following seven chapters: Chapter I: The Cognitive Dissonance of Bigger Thomas (by Rachel Martinez) Chapter II: The Equal of Them: Violence and Equality in Native Son and “The Man Who Was Almost a Man” (by Molly Riddell) Chapter III: Above the Sceptered Sway: Holy Justice, and the Trials of Bigger and Shylock (by Alberto Puras) Chapter IV: Through His Eyes: Critical Analysis of Wright’s Native Son and Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment (by Rachel Torres) Chapter V: Perceptual Misadventure: Becoming Rather than Enacting the Stereotype in Wright’s Native Son and Melville’s “Benito Cereno” (by Stormie Garza) Chapter VI: Psychologically Rather than Physically Dismembered: Reconsideration of Self-conception in Native Son and Moby-Dick (by Yacine Ndiaye) Chapter VII: Specious Dialectic in Wright’s Native Son (by Nicholas Grotowski). The student authors have exhibited burgeoning skills as historical contextualists, mindful of the author’s times, social circumstance, personal reading, narrative point of view, and aesthetic achievement, evidenced by six of these essays having been accepted for presentation at the annual conference of the American Studies Association of Texas.
The UNT Music Library at 75: Selections from Its Special Collections: The UNT Music Library boasts an interesting and vastly varied assortment of musical treasures in its special collections. This commemorative volume celebrates its 75th anniversary with a brief history of the Music Library and a selection of items from its unique collections.
"Independent Original and Progressive": Celebrating 125 Years of UNT: Joshua C. Chilton first described UNT as “independent, original and progressive” in his inaugural speech opening the university in 1890. In the 125 years since then the university has more than lived up to his expectations. The University Archive holds countless photographs, artifacts and publications which tell the remarkable story of UNT from its beginnings in a downtown hardware store to its place today as the one of the nation’s largest public universities. This book features stories about the people and events that helped to define the character and spirit of UNT. Each story is illustrated with photographs and artifacts specially chosen from the Special Collections department and the Music Library, both part of the UNT Libraries, whose staff are proud to share these wonderful memories with you.
University of North Texas System Strategic Plan: 2012-2016: Strategic plan for the University of North Texas (UNT) System outlining the organization's vision, mission, and values, as well as specific, five-year goals for each of the system's campuses: the main Denton campus, UNT Health Science Center in Fort Worth, and UNT Dallas.
Web Archiving Environmental Scan: Environmental scan of Web archiving activities at university libraries around the United States.
Through the Lenses of Ray Bankston and Don Shugart: Horse Photos from the University of North Texas Libraries: The selected Horse Photos in this book represent samples images produced by the two most prolific equine photographers, Ray Bankston and Don Shugart between 1962 and 2000. While Ray Bankston and Don Shugart traveled extensively, many of their clients, including prominent ranches and prestigious performance horse events, were located in Texas, home of the American Quarter Horse Association, the National Cutting Horse Association, and the American Paint Horse Association. In addition to formal portraits of famous horses and their owners and riders, their photo collections also contain never-before-published informal shots of riders and horse-show exhibitors, as well as those of farms, ranches, rodeo arenas, and performance rings of a bygone era. Where available, the dates when horses were photographed are noted, as well as the names of their owners, riders, trainers, and the ranches and farms that represent them.
The Ursulines in Louisiana: 1727-1824: Book describing the early history of New Orleans and the Ursuline order's presence there. Notable figures from the order are discussed.
Little Journeys, Volume 8, Number 6, Phillips: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Wendell Phillips, a famous Orator.
Little Journeys, Volume 24, Number 3, Stephen Girard: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Stephen Girard, a famous Businessman.
Little Journeys, Volume 8, Number 3, Patrick Henry: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Patrick Henry, a famous Orator.
Little Journeys, Volume 22, Number 6, Friedrich Froebel: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Friedrich Froebel, a famous Teacher and educationalist.
Little Journeys, Volume 14, Number 1, Immanuel Kant: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Immanuel Kant, a famous Philosopher.
Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 6: Book containing two German war histories.
Little Journeys, Thoreau: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Henry David Thoreau, a famous American transcendentalist philosopher.
Victorian Photographs of Famous Men & Fair Women: Book containing a series of photographs of famous individuals from Great Britain in the nineteenth century. Includes biographical information about the photographer.
Little Journeys, Volume 17, Number 6, John Fiske: Monthly booklet containing a biography of John Fiske, a famous Scientist.
Little Journeys, Volume 8, Number 1, Marat: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Jean Paul Marat, a famous Orator, journalist, and politician in the French Revolution.
Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 5: Book containing two German war histories.
Little Journeys, Volume 8, Number 4, Starr King: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Thomas Starr King, a famous Orator and American religious leader.
Little Journeys, Oliver Cromwell: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Oliver Cromwell, a famous reformer and general.
Apunte Histórico de los Chinos en Cuba: Book describing the history of Chinese people living in Cuba.
Little Journeys, Volume 23, Number 6, Mary Baker Eddy: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Mary Baker Eddy, a famous Teacher.
Little Journeys, Volume 13, Number 2, Ingersoll: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Ingersoll, a famous Orator.
Little Journeys, Volume 19, Number 4, October, 1906: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Ferdinand Lassalle and Helene Von Donniges, two famous lovers.
Little Journeys, Volume 16, Number 6, Darwin: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Charles Darwin, a famous Scientist.
Emulation & Virtualization as Preservation Strategies: Between the two fundamental digital preservation strategies, migration has been strongly favored. Recent developments in emulation frameworks make it possible to deliver emulations to readers via the Web in ways that make them appear as normal components of Web pages. This removes what was the major barrier to deployment of emulation as a preservation strategy. Barriers remain, the two most important are that the tools for creating preserved system images are inadequate, and that the legal basis for delivering emulations is unclear, and where it is clear it is highly restrictive. Both of these raise the cost of building and providing access to a substantial, well curated collection of emulated digital artefacts beyond reach. This book advocates that if the above mentioned barriers can be addressed, emulation will play a much greater role in digital preservation in the coming years. It will provide access to artefacts that migration cannot, and even assist in migration where necessary by allowing the original software to perform it. The evolution of digital artefacts means that current artefacts are more difficult and expensive to collect and preserve than those from the past, and less suitable for migration. This trend is expected to continue. Emulation is not a panacea. Technical, scale and intellectual property difficulties make many current digital artefacts infeasible to emulate. Where feasible, even with better tools and a viable legal framework, emulation is more expensive than migration-based strategies. The most important reason for the failure of current strategies to collect and preserve the majority of their target material is economic; the resources available are inadequate. The bulk of the resources expended on both migration and emulation strategies are for ingest, especially metadata generation and quality assurance. There is a risk that diverting resources to emulation, with its higher per-artefact ingest cost, will exacerbate …
American Place: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-five Years: This book is an exhibition of historic and current photographs and drawings of sixty-one American buildings that represent fading currents in American society, recognizing the 75th anniversary of the HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey).
Office of Scholarly Communication: Scope, Organizational Placement, and Planning in Ten Research Libraries: The phrase “scholarly communication” appears often in the description of library roles and responsibilities, but the function is still new enough that it takes different forms in different institutions. There is no common understanding of where it fits into the library’s organizational structure. This landscape review of offices of scholarly communication grows out of research originally conducted by Ithaka S+R for the Harvard Library. The project was designed to undertake a review of how academic institutions support the scholarly communication function in their libraries and to gather basic information about the issues at some of the largest research intensive university libraries. It finds categorical differences in the vision for the scholarly communications unit and its organizational placement, as well as associated differences in staffing and budget.
Repository Planning Checklist and Guidance: This document introduces the Planning Tool for Trusted Electronic Repositories (PLATTER) toolkit which assists repositories in setting the necessary objectives and targets for achieving trustworthiness. PLATTER is not in itself an audit or certification tool but is rather designed to complement existing audit and certification tools by providing a framework which will allow new repositories to incorporate the goal of achieving trust into their planning from an early stage. A repository planned using PLATTER will find itself in a strong position when it subsequently comes to apply one of the existing auditing tools to confirm the adequacy of its procedures for maintaining the long term usability of and access to its material.
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Little Journeys, Volume 7, Number 1, Pericles: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Pericles, a famous Orator.
Little Journeys, Volume 17, Number 4, Tyndall: Monthly booklet containing a biography of John Tyndall, a famous Scientist and physicists.
Little Journeys, Volume 17, Number 1, Ernst Haeckel: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Ernst Haeckel, a famous Scientist.
Little Journeys, Volume 24, Number 2, James Oliver: Monthly booklet containing a biography of James Oliver, a famous Businessman.
Little Journeys, Volume 17, Number 3, Huxley: Monthly booklet containing a biography of Thomas H. Huxley, a famous Scientist.

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