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Building Community College Library Capacity for Supporting Students' Data Literacy Needs [IMLS Grant Proposal]

Description: Grant proposal for the University of North Texas Department of Information Science to facilitate a two-year implementation project in partnership with the Association of College & Research Libraries Community and Junior College Libraries Section. The project aims to empower community college librarians to be literacy leaders, fostering data literacy success for community college students. To achieve this objective, the project will develop an accessible and comprehensive toolkit for community c… more
Date: 2024-08-01/2026-07-31
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Hong, Lingzi & Lund, Brady, 1994-
Partner: UNT College of Information
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School Librarians Facilitating the Success of English Language Learners: A White Paper

Description: This white paper, along with the accompanying toolkit, is designed to provide school librarians and other English Learners (EL) stakeholders with an overview of how school librarians can assist ELs and serve as a training aid for the future of the profession as it pertains to serving ELs. The project was funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant awarded to the University of North Texas (UNT) Departments of Information Science, Learning Technologies, and Linguistics, in … more
Date: 2024
Creator: Smith, Daniella; Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.; Zhang, Xian; Colby, Diana; Kaz-Onyeakazi, Ijay; Milburn, Stacie et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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School Librarians Facilitating the Success of English Language Learners: A Toolkit

Description: This toolkit features resources and research-based strategies for serving English Learners (ELs) in school libraries. The project was funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant awarded to the University of North Texas (UNT) Departments of Information Science, Learning Technologies, and Linguistics, in partnership with the International Association of School Librarians (IASL).
Date: 2024
Creator: Smith, Daniella; Tyler-Wood, Tandra L.; Zhang, Xian; Colby, Diana; Kaz-Onyeakazi, Ijay; Milburn, Stacie et al.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The School Librarian English Learner Action Plan

Description: This document outlines nine focus areas that are essential for implementing best practices for ensuring equitable access to materials and cultivating a rich learning environment for English Learners (ELs), and it breaks down each focus area into multiple action items to make gains in the focus area. The project was funded by an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) grant awarded to the University of North Texas (UNT) Departments of Information Science, Learning Technologies, and Lingu… more
Date: 2024
Creator: Smith, Daniella; Tyler-Wood, Tandra L. & Zhang, Xian
Partner: UNT College of Information
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CAREER: Organic and inorganic carbon metabolism in methanotrophic bacteria

Description: Data management plan for the grant, "CAREER: Organic and inorganic carbon metabolism in methanotrophic bacteria." Evidence shows that the methanotroph Methylococcus capsulatus can uniquely co-utilize CH4 and CO2 as carbon sources, but the underlying metabolism and its regulation is incompletely understood. This project will leverage recently developed methanotroph genetic tools and high throughput CRISPR interference (CRISPRi) functional genetic techniques to further define the role of CO2 and … more
Date: 2025-02-01/2030-01-31
Creator: Henard, Calvin
Partner: UNT College of Science
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All-Gender Restrooms in the Library Workplace: Necessary and Possible

Description: This article asserts that all-gender restrooms in library workplaces are necessary and possible. The authors of this article provides insight into how they planned and executed the creation of a gender-neutral bathroom in their library's workplace.
Date: October 2, 2024
Creator: Peebles, Evan; Ross, Alyssa & Ericson, Lora
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Intensifiers of Adjectives in Akha

Description: This is an extensive wordlist of intensifiers of adjectives in Akha. The author provides a list of intensifiers and examples of an adjective intensifier. She notes whether the intensifier occurs alone and provides commentary.
Date: unknown
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Adjectives in Akha

Description: This manuscript discusses the properties and functions of adjectives in Akha. Data come from 40,000 transcribed texts—conversations, stories, and factual information. The author argues that the most common syntactic constructions are those in which adjectives modify nouns, adjectives funciton as predicates, and adjectives function as adverbs. The manuscript also illustrates how special intensifiers and tone markers work and provides a great variety of examples of phrases, clauses, and sentences. more
Date: unknown
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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The Transmission and Language of Akha Shaman Texts

Description: This is the abstract and handout used for the 50th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) in 2017. The purpose of this paper is to discuss orally-transmitted Akha ritual literature. The author concentrates on shamanistic texts dealing with issues such as: the importance of working on oral texts (e.g., as compared to the Iliad and the Odyssey), the type of actors/shamans/reciters found in these oral texts, the type of training actors go through, a brief comme… more
Date: 2017
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Akha

Description: This chapter 46 is a recent version of the Akha chapter 15 pubished in 2003. It provides a description of the Akha people in southwest China as well as their language. Looking at the Akha spoken in northern Thailand, the author provides the Akha vowel inventory and discusses important issues in the phonology (e.g., tone and syllable structure). The author also discusses word formation, the syntax of noun and verb phrases, and sentence particles. The chapter concludes by discussing the topic of … more
Date: 2017
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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A Comparison between the Textual Traditions of the Shamans and the Ritual Reciters of the Akha

Description: The Akha, a Tibeto-Burman speaking people living in the border areas between China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, and Vietnam, have a vast body of oral texts, ritually performed by the Phíma (a trained reciter and ritual specialist dealing with death and sickness) or by the Njí-phà/Nyirpaq (a shaman, deals with sickness). Abstract for the 47th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) in Kunming, October 17-19, 2014.
Date: 1982
Creator: Inga-Lill Hansson
Partner: UNT College of Information
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A Comparison between the Language of Akha Ritual Texts and the Modern Vernacular Language

Description: This handout offers a comparison of the type of language found in ritual Akha texts and in the modern vernacular. The author discusses various linguistic properties and illustrates them with ten example sentences with word-to-word glossing of ritual Akha, modern Akha, and English. There is free translation in English with Akha in a CAO-like script. This handout was presented at the 6th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics (ICSTLL) in China, in 2012.
Date: 2012
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Evidentiality in Akha - a preliminary discussion

Description: In this conference paper handout the author discusses eight different types of evidentials used to describe actions, factual knowledge, knowledge from witnessing, reaction to witnessing and hearing, action, etc. Example sentences used in this paper come from various stories and conversations collected by the author. Approximately 25 senteces were word-to-word-glossed for modern Akha and ritual Akha and English. This handout was used during the 38th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Langu… more
Date: 2005
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Akha

Description: This chapter 15 provides a description of the Akha people in southwest China, and their language. Looking at the Akha spoken in northern Thailand, the author provides the Akha vowel inventory and discusses important issues in the phonology (e.g., tone and syllable structure). The author also discusses word formation, the syntax of noun and verb phrases, and sentence particles. The chapter concludes by discussing the topic of noun incorporation in monosyllabic and disyllabic nouns and those with… more
Date: 2003
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Translation of the Ritual Akha Language into Modern Akha

Description: This conference handout discusses the importance of translating the Ritual Akha language into Modern Akha given the literacy level, the richness of the ritual language, word order, pronunciation, vocabulary, etc. that all make the Ritual language an important source for the Akhas. The author provides various sentences comparing Ritual Akha and Modern Akha, word-to-word-glossing for modern Akha and ritual Akha, and presents differences. This handout was presented at the 4th International Confere… more
Date: 2002
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Translation of the Ritual Akha Language into Modern Akha

Description: This conference handout discusses the importance of translating the Ritual Akha language into Modern Akha given the literacy level, the richness of the ritual language, word order, pronunciation, vocabulary, etc. that all make the ritual language an important source for the Akhas. The author provides various sentences comparing ritual Akha and modern Akha, word-to-word-glossing for modern Akha and ritual Akha, and presents differences. This handout was presented at the 35th International Confer… more
Date: unknown
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Object-verb in Akha: the ABB Structure

Description: This journal article discusses the structure, syntax, and semantics of noun/object-verb constructions in which the verb has the same phonetic shape as the second syllable (aka cognate object constructions) in Akha. The author illustrates this phenomenon with words whose origin is in monosyllabic and disyllabic nouns, as well as syllables with the prefix a- in various tones. Insertion of classifiers, negation, and auxiliary verbs are discussed in the syntax. Associations with the body, heavenly … more
Date: 1996
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Akha Ritual and Vernacular language - with a Special View to the Role of Affixes in Word Formation

Description: This handout discusses the affixes of the ritual texts. The author notes that Akha does not have many affixes, and the only widespread ones in the modern vernacular language are the prefix a- and the suffix -ma, noting that there are some prefixes which are limited to certain kinds of animals,: xhá- for some birds and beasts, bö̀- for many grubs, ho- or xho- for many rats, and ŋà- for most fishes. Consequently, the author illustrates with various wordlists, small clauses and sentences the differ… more
Date: 2001
Creator: Hansson, Inga-Lill
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Recommendation of Hansson (6)

Description: Recommendation of Inga-Lill Hansson sent by Lars Ragvald on 25 Sept 1996. Related to ILH's application for a fellowship. About her work and importance at Lund University.
Date: 1996
Creator: Ragvald, Lars
Partner: UNT College of Information
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Recommendation of Hansson (5)

Description: Recommendation of Inga-Lill Hansson sent by J.M. McKinnon on 29 July 1996. Rrelated to ILH's application for a fellowship. About her research and research qualities, including respect for the people she works with.
Date: 1996
Creator: McKinnon, J.M.
Partner: UNT College of Information
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