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- An Introduction to Data Science
- This book provides non-technical readers with a gentle introduction to essential concepts and activities of data science. For more technical readers, the book provides explanations and code for a range of interesting applications using the open source R language for statistical computing and graphics"--Resource home page.
- The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey 2012
- The Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey has focused since its inception on capturing an accurate picture of faculty members' practices, attitudes, and needs. In the fifth triennial cycle, fielded in fall 2012, the survey focused on research and teaching practices broadly, as well as the dissemination, collecting, discovery, and access of research and teaching materials. Findings from this cycle of the Ithaka S+R US Faculty Survey will provide colleges and universities, libraries, learned societies, and academic publishers with insight into the evolving attitudes and practices of faculty members in the context of substantial environmental change for higher education. The development of the 2012 questionnaire was guided by an advisory committee of librarians, publishers, policy makers, and a scholarly society executive. The overall project was supported by some 20 colleges and universities, learned societies, and publishers / vendors.
- It's all the cat's fault!
- Children's e-book about a boy who could not complete his homework because of a certain mischievous cat.Discover what happened to him and see how one thing can lead to another, and another, and another...
- Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 5
- Book containing two German war histories.
- Kriegsgeschichtliche Einzelschriften, Issue 6
- Book containing two German war histories.
- [Letter from Don Gillis to NTSU President C.C. Nolen - 1976-02-03]
- Letter
- Liberia Executive Mansion
- Website for the government leaders of Liberia, including biographical information about the president and vice president, as well as speeches, major issues, and links to news and relevant resources.
- Library of Congress Magazine (LCM), Vol. 1 No. 1: September-October 2012
- Library of Congress Magazine (LCM) is published bimonthly to tell the Library’s stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world’s largest library. The publication is also accessible free online at www.loc.gov/lcm/.
- Library of Congress Magazine (LCM), Vol. 1 No. 2: November-December 2012
- Library of Congress Magazine (LCM) is published bimonthly to tell the Library’s stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world’s largest library. The second issue discusses a new exhibition highlighting the personal aspects of the Civil War in America, which also includes a celebration of books that shaped America, the facts behind the Maya calendar and 2012, and the first recipe for pumpkin pie.The publication is also accessible free online at www.loc.gov/lcm/.
- Library of Congress Magazine (LCM), Vol. 2 No. 1: January-February 2013
- Library of Congress Magazine (LCM) is published bimonthly to tell the Library’s stories, to showcase its many talented staff, and to share and promote the use of the resources of the world’s largest library. This issue focuses on presidents and those national celebrations where they are sworn in. Also: sharing Rachmaninoff’s music, preserving our national film heritage and how to register for copyright. The publication is also accessible free online at www.loc.gov/lcm/.
- Library of Congress: Strong Leadership Needed to Address Serious Information Technology Management Weaknesses
- The Library of Congress has established policies and procedures for managing its information technology (IT) resources, but significant weaknesses across several areas have hindered their effectiveness: -Strategic planning: The Library does not have an IT strategic plan that is aligned with the overall agency strategic plan and establishes goals, measures, and strategies. This leaves the Library without a clear direction for its use of IT. -Investment management: Although the Library obligated at least $119 million on IT for fiscal year 2014, it is not effectively managing its investments. To its credit, the Library has established structures for managing IT investments—including a review board and a process for selecting investments. However, the board does not review all key investments, and its roles and responsibilities are not always clearly defined. Additionally, the Library does not have a complete process for tracking its IT spending or an accurate inventory of its assets. For example, while the inventory identifies over 18,000 computers currently in use, officials stated that the Library has fewer than 6,500. Until the Library addresses these weaknesses, its ability to make informed decisions will be impaired. -Information security and privacy: The Library assigned roles and responsibilities and developed policies and procedures for securing its information and systems. However, its implementation of key security and privacy management controls was uneven. For example, the Library's system inventory did not include all key systems. Additionally, the Library did not always fully define and test security controls for its systems, remediate weaknesses in a timely manner, and assess the risks to the privacy of personal information in its systems. Such deficiencies also contributed to weaknesses in technical security controls, putting the Library's systems and information at risk of compromise. -Service management: The Library's Information Technology Services (ITS) division is primarily responsible for providing IT services …
- [Library Preservation Staff 1981-1982]
- Series of seven photographs of staff members in the UNT Libraries preservation department, mounted on a board with a green edging, stamped "1981-1982" at the bottom. The center image is a group portrait of all six staff members posing together in the office; each of the other photographs shows one of the staff members at work in his/her own space.
- Library Publishing Directory 2014
- The first edition of the Library Publishing Directory provides a snapshot of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries, including information about the number and types of publications they produce, the services they offer authors, how they are staffed and funded, and the future plans of institutions that are engaged in this emerging field. In documenting the breadth and depth of activities in this field, this resource aims to articulate the unique value of library publishing; establish it as a significant and growing community of practice; and to raise its visibility within a number of stakeholder communities, including administrators, funding agencies, other scholarly publishers, librarians, and content creators. Specifically it is hoped that this Directory will: • Introduce all readers to the emerging field of library publishing and help articulate its unique characteristics as a distinctive "publishing field." • Facilitate collaboration among library publishers and other publishing entities, especially the university presses and learned societies that share their values. • Alert authors of scholarly content to a range of potential publishing partners dedicated to supporting their experimentation with new forms of scholarly communication and open access business models. The Directory is also available Open Access in several electronic formats through www.librarypublishing.org.
- Little Journeys, Oliver Cromwell
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Oliver Cromwell, a famous reformer and general.
- Little Journeys, Schopenhauer
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of {{{name}}}, a famous {{{type}}}.
- Little Journeys, Thoreau
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Henry David Thoreau, a famous American transcendentalist philosopher.
- Little Journeys, Volume 7, Number 1, Pericles
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Pericles, a famous Orator.
- 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.
- Little Journeys, Volume 8, Number 3, Patrick Henry
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Patrick Henry, a famous Orator.
- 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, Volume 8, Number 6, Phillips
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Wendell Phillips, a famous Orator.
- Little Journeys, Volume 11, Number 3, Bellini
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Gian Bellini, a famous Eminent Artists.
- Little Journeys, Volume 11, Number 3, November 1902
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Edwin A. Abbey a famous artist and illustrator.
- Little Journeys, Volume 13, Number 2, Ingersoll
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Ingersoll, a famous Orator.
- Little Journeys, Volume 14, Number 1, Immanuel Kant
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Immanuel Kant, a famous Philosopher.
- Little Journeys, Volume 14, Number 2, Auguste Comte
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Auguste Comte, a famous Scientist.
- Little Journeys, Volume 14, Number 2, Seneca
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Seneca, a famous Roman philosopher.
- Little Journeys, Volume 14, Number 6, Swedenborg
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Emanuel Swedenborg, a famous theologian, scientist, philosopher, and mystic.
- Little Journeys, Volume 16, Number 1, Copernicus
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Copernicus, a famous Scientist.
- Little Journeys, Volume 16, Number 2, Galileo
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Galileo, a famous scientist.
- Little Journeys, Volume 16, Number 3, Newton
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Isaac Newton, a famous Scientist.
- Little Journeys, Volume 16, Number 6, Darwin
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Charles Darwin, a famous Scientist.
- Little Journeys, Volume 17, Number 1, Ernst Haeckel
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Ernst Haeckel, a famous Scientist.
- Little Journeys, Volume 17, Number 3, Huxley
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Thomas H. Huxley, a famous Scientist.
- 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 6, John Fiske
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of John Fiske, a famous Scientist.
- 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 20, Number 2, Henry George
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Henry George, a famous Reformer.
- Little Journeys, [Volume 20, Number 3], Garibaldi
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Garibaldi, a famous Reformer.
- Little Journeys, Volume 20, Number 4, Richard Cobden
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Richard Cobden, a famous Reformer.
- Little Journeys, Volume 22, Number 6, Friedrich Froebel
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Friedrich Froebel, a famous Teacher and educationalist.
- Little Journeys, Volume 23, Number 1, Booker T. Washington
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Booker T. Washington, a famous Great Teacher.
- Little Journeys, Volume 23, Number 6, Mary Baker Eddy
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Mary Baker Eddy, a famous Teacher.
- Little Journeys, Volume 24, Number 2, James Oliver
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of James Oliver, a famous Businessman.
- Little Journeys, Volume 24, Number 3, Stephen Girard
- Monthly booklet containing a biography of Stephen Girard, a famous Businessman.
- 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 …
- Ma`rid as-Sanatain al-`Arabi al-auwal
- Exhibition catalog for the first biennial Arab art festival, held in Baghdad, Iraq by the Arab Artist Union. The catalog includes a list of the entry titles, materials, creation dates, and dimensions for each artist, with photographs of selected pieces. The entries are organized by country of origin.
- Making Fair Use Make More Sense: A White Paper
- This document is part of a series of white papers on various copyright issues. Fair use is a powerful tool for people who want to use and expand on copyrighted works. Fair use is special among the other copyright exceptions because it isn’t specifically targeted at one kind of use. Instead, fair use is purposely open ended to permit many different kinds of uses. One downside of this however, is that it can be difficult for anyone — lawyer and nonlawyer alike — to figure what is/isn’t fair use under the law. This white paper attempts to review the fair use statute, go over its famous “four factor test,” and offers some suggestions about how to think through each part.
- Making+ Learning in Museums and Libraries A Practitionaer's Guide and Framework
- Many libraries and museums have recently invesetd resources to implement maker programs or makerspaces. This project defines “making” as building or adapting objects using real tools and real materials and engaging learners in the process of using these tools and materials. While these programs and spaces serve a variety of goals, they overwhelmingly serve as sites of ambitious learning. As the maker movement grows by leaps and bounds, the field itself knows relatively little about how to support learning within these spaces. This report introduces a framework to support learning in library and museum makerspaces. There are three elements to the framework: purpose; people; and pieces and parts. Through a description of the framework, as well as case studies on how making and makerspaces are being implemented around the country, this document aims to share ways that we can nurture and grow conditions for learning within making experiences.
- [Map of North Texas State College, 1953]
- The image here is a black and white campus map of the North Texas State College, dating back to 1953. On the upper left corner is a framed box with a cartoon of a casual dressed man searching for something. Next to the man is the title of the map. Beneath the title, on the lower right corner, is an inked compass that points north, for reference. All buildings are purely black and have a number assigned to them. Streets are displayed as straight lines. Found on the right of the map is the legend.