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Factors Influencing Older Adults' Patterns of Information Acquisition

Description: A group of 101 older adults (sixty-five years of age and over) who lived independently in three retirement apartment residences in Denton, Texas, were asked about their patterns of reading, television viewing, and radio listening habits for two periods in their lives: (1) at age forty to fifty-five and (2) at the present. Respondents were asked about their use of external information sources (public library, grocery store, newsstand, etc.) and their use of proximate information sources (radio, … more
Date: May 1989
Creator: Barnett, Mary Jane, 1952-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Attitudes Toward the Contemporary Role of the Library Media Specialist in the Overall Elementary School Program in North Central Texas

Description: The purpose of this study, in addition to measuring and comparing attitudes of teachers, principals and library media specialists toward the role of the school library media specialist, was to identify and measure factors contributing to those attitudes. Nine factors were identified. Further path analysis revealed that the performance level of the library media specialist had the most influence on principals' and teachers' attitudes toward the Consultant, Technological and Instructional Roles. … more
Date: December 1989
Creator: Roach, Catharyn
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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KAOS/LIB-V: A library of nuclear response functions generated by KAOS-V code from ENDF/B-V and other data files

Description: KAOS/LIB-V: A library of processed nuclear responses for neutronics analyses of nuclear systems has been generated. The library was prepared using the KAOS-V code and nuclear data from ENDF/B-V. The library includes kerma (kinetic energy released in materials) factors and other nuclear response functions for all materials presently of interest in fusion and fission applications for 43 nonfissionable and 15 fissionable isotopes and elements. The nuclear response functions include gas production … more
Date: April 1, 1989
Creator: Farawila, Y.; Gohar, Y. & Maynard, C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Generation of broad-group neutron/photon cross-section libraries for shielding applications

Description: The generation and use of multigroup cross-section libraries with broad energy group structures is primarily for the economy of computer resources. Also, the establishment of reference broad-group libraries is desirable in order to avoid duplication of effort, both in terms of the data generation and verification, and to assure a common data base for all participants in a specific project. Uncertainties are inevitably introduced into the broad-group cross sections due to approximations in the g… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Ingersoll, D. T.; Roussin, R. W.; Fu, C. Y. & White, J. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The human telomere

Description: An ultimate goal of human genetics is the generation of a complete physical and ''functional'' map of the human genome. Twenty-five percent of human DNA, however, consists of repetitive DNA sequences. These repetitive DNA sequences are thought to arise by many mechanisms, from direct sequence amplification by the unequal recombination of homologous DNA regions to the reverse flow of genetic information. A general outline of the chromosomal organization of these repetitive sequences will be disc… more
Date: January 1, 1989
Creator: Moyzis, Robert K.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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An Investigation of Differences in Public Library Usage Patterns Between Gifted Adults and Members of the General Public

Description: The purpose of this research was to isolate the variable giftedness in a pipulation and determine whether that variable could be used as a predictor of public library use. The analysis of data indicated that public library use was higher for the general public than for the gifted adults. There was less variation among the factors of age, level of education, and public library use for the gifted adults than for the general public. Books as a resource for information were mentioned by the general… more
Date: December 1989
Creator: Foudray, Rita Catherine Schoch
Item Type: Refine your search to only Thesis or Dissertation
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[Program: Spring Author's Lecture Series]

Description: Program for the Spring Author's Lecture Series hosted by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters on June 26, 1989 at the Dallas Downtown Public Library and featuring author Margaret Walker Alexander.
Date: June 26, 1989
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Item Type: Refine your search to only Pamphlet
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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A database for the Geysers geothermal field

Description: This document contains graphs of data collected from Geysers Geothermal Field. These graphs display data concerning steam rate and cumulative steam from 1968 to 1988. 245 figs. (FSD)
Date: September 1, 1989
Creator: Bodvarsson, G.S.; Cox, B.L.; Fuller, P.; Ripperda, M.; Tulinius, H.; Witherspoon, P.A. et al.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Report
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Church & Synagogue Libraries, Volume 22, Number 4, January/February 1989

Description: Bimonthly publication of the Church and Synagogue Library Association, containing news and events related to the organization and its members, reviews of books and other materials, and stories of interest to the management of congregational libraries.
Date: January 1989
Creator: Church and Synagogue Library Association
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Portrait Eleanor Gorman]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about professional volunteer and retiree Eleanor Gorman who records textbooks for visually impaired and learning disabled students at Eastfield College in Mesquite while also volunteering at the Mesquite Public Library and the North Mesquite Literacy Center. This footage includes an interview with Gorman and student Fred Stogdill who is dyslexic and uses audio recordings to help him read.
Date: September 23, 1989, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 53 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Portrait Sandy McMullen]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about Sandra "Sandy" McMullen. A former high school teacher, McMullen now lived with multiple sclerosis and helped co-found and run a library for the North Texas chapter of the National Multiple Sclerosis Society out of her home. This footage includes an interview with McMullen and Betty Posey as well as footage of Sandy working in her library and reading to her daughter Melissa. This story is part of the NBC… more
Date: August 26, 1989, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 39 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[T.W Brown read-in with children and other black women authors]

Description: Video footage from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during a library event with author T.W. Brown in February of 1989. The footage shows children seated in a library listening as she reads from a book in her hands. The event includes two other black women authors.
Date: February 1989
Duration: 1 hour 07 seconds
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: 5 Alive News (Full Broadcast)]

Description: Video footage from the 5 Alive News station in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, to accompany several news stories about a teen murder, robberies, sexual assaults, President Bush's budget plans, a reading project for children, adoptions for pets from the Oklahoma City Animal Shelter, Mike Schmidt's retirement from the Phillies, Japanese businesses in Manhattan, New York, and a confiscation auction.
Date: February 9, 1989
Duration: 31 minutes 23 seconds
Creator: 5 Alive News (Television station : Oklahoma City, Ok.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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