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Department of State Compliance Plan for OMB Memorandum M-25-21 September 2025

Description: Report outlining the Department of State's plan to achieve enterprise-wide responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) through driving AI innovation, improving AI governance, and fostering public trust in federal use of AI as required by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-21, Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance and Public Trust.
Date: September 30, 2025
Creator: Ritualo, Amy
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Library on the Go: A pop-up library initiative

Description: Report shares the results of a Dean's Innovation Grant from the UNT Libraries, describing the Library on the Go initiative, which developed a mobile pop-up library kit to bring library resources and services directly to students across campus, increasing outreach, engagement, and visibility beyond traditional library spaces. Through a series of pilot events, staff created sustainable best practices, a reservation system, and a comprehensive LibGuide, establishing a scalable model for future pop… more
Date: September 30, 2025
Creator: Knox, Briana & Brents, Madison
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Live D&D at UNT

Description: Report shares the results of a Dean’s Innovation Grant from the UNT Libraries. The grant supported the development of a live and recorded Dungeons & Dragons program designed to engage the UNT gaming community, showcase library resources, strengthen campus partnerships, and provide students with hands-on experience in performance, media production, and creative collaboration.
Date: September 30, 2025
Creator: Duke, Lindsay; Scott, Dakota; Guerrero, Steven; McGill, Shanon; Washburn, Jenn & Robson, Diane
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Machine Learning @ UNT Libraries

Description: Report shares the results of a Dean's Innovation Grant from the UNT Libraries. The grant supported an exploration of machine learning and data modeling tools to assess their potential for improving library services, resources, and research processes, while also identifying challenges related to project planning, participant readiness, software adoption, and data privacy.
Date: September 30, 2025
Creator: Harker, Karen; Hargis, Carol; Gosnell, Frank; Caldwell, Deborah; Byrne, Sephra; Rowe, Jennifer et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Texas historic American Buildings Project: Research and Praxis

Description: Report shares the results of a Dean’s Innovation Grant from the UNT Libraries. The grant supported a research and practice project that explored the National Park Service’s Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), developed expertise in heritage documentation methods, and applied those techniques to document historic Texas structures for potential preservation and inclusion in the Library of Congress.
Date: September 30, 2025
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Improving Digital Library Image Accessibility with HTR

Description: This report shares the results of a Dean's Innovation Grant from the UNT Libraries. The grant is a project that evaluated machine learning tools that improve on traditional OCR technologies in such a way that they can read and transcribe handwritten text.
Date: September 30, 2024
Creator: Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Holistic Collection Assessment

Description: This report asserts that the UNT Libraries has been making efforts to address the vestiges of systemic oppression of socially and politically minoritized populations. The project team members conducted a survey and a focus group, and they consulted with an advisory group consisting of representatives from the library, student affairs, and the professorate.
Date: September 30, 2022
Creator: Byrne, Sephra; Harker, Karen; Leuzinger, Julie & Rich, Jack
Partner: UNT Libraries
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“Press Start!”: A Video Game Music Symposium [Report]

Description: Report to the UNT Libraries' Dean on the outcomes of the Dean’s Innovation Grant for the Press Start Video Game Music Symposium.
Date: September 30, 2022
Creator: Brubaker, Blaine A.; Fernandez, Sabino & Wolski, Kristin A.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Improving Library Services for Patrons of All Abilities

Description: Improving Library Services for Patrons of All Abilities: Final Report summarizes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity. The project aimed to increase the awareness and mindfulness of the needs of patrons with disabilities and to improve services offered to accommodate those patrons. The project was funded by the Dean's Innovation Grant.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Rowe, Jennifer
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Making Digital Collection Audio Visual Materials Accessible: Final Report

Description: This report documents the Making Digital Collections A/V Materials Accessible project which sought to learn about and initially address accessibility compliance issues, specifically related to A/V materials in the UNT digital collections. The final report briefly describes the project scope, activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and project continuity.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Hicks, William
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Special Collections podcast

Description: This report documents the Special Collections podcast project funded through the Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the project's activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Date: September 30, 2019
Creator: Judkins, Julie & Parker, Jaimi
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Cost and Feasibility of FADGI Compliance for the Digital Projects Unit

Description: This report documents the Cost and Feasibility of FADGI Compliance for the Digital Projects Unit project funded through the 2016 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the Cost and Feasibility of FADGI Compliance for the Digital Projects Unit project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Date: September 30, 2017
Creator: Willis, Shannon & McIntosh, Marcia
Partner: UNT Libraries
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What's Brewing at UNT

Description: This report documents the What's Brewing at UNT project funded through the 2016 Dean's Innovation Grant. The final report briefly describes the What's Brewing at UNT project activities, budget, outcomes, best practices, and sustainability.
Date: September 30, 2017
Creator: Andrews, Pamela; Hardin, Gregory & Smith, Susan
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Energy Policy: 114th Congress Issues

Description: This report begins by providing background on the economic rationale for energy market interventions; it highlights various market failures production and consumption of energy, and discusses possible interventions. The report concludes with an analysis of the current status of energy tax policy.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: Yacobucci, Brent D.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Food for Peace Act, Section 202(e) Funding Report

Description: Report about how the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) used the Food for Peace Act, Section 202(e) funding in Fiscal Year 2015 to improve the impact of the Office of Food for Peace's Title II programming.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: U.S. Agency International Development
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Human-Induced Earthquakes from Deep-Well Injection: A Brief Overview

Description: This report reviews the current scientific understanding of induced seismicity, primarily in the context of Class II oil and gas wastewater disposal wells. The report also outlines the regulatory framework for these injection wells, and identifies several federal and state initiatives responding to recent events of induced seismicity associated with Class II disposal.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: Folger, Peter & Tiemann, Mary
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Internships, Fellowships, and Other Work Experience Opportunities in the Federal Government

Description: This report describes Internet resources on major internship, fellowship, and work experience programs within the federal government. It is intended as a selective guide for students of all levels: high school, undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: Bailey, Christina M. (Christina Miracle) & Manning, Jennifer E. (Information research specialist)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Zika Response Funding: Request and Congressional Action

Description: This report presents the Administration's request for supplemental appropriations for the Zika response. It includes sections outlining Congressional actions, the emergency supplemental appropriations request for Zika response efforts -- by both U.S. health and human services agencies and international assistance programs -- and information about unobligated Ebola response funds.
Date: September 30, 2016
Creator: Epstein, Susan B. & Lister, Sarah A.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Poland and Its Relations with the United States: In Brief

Description: This report provides an overview and assessment of some of the main dimensions of the topic of developments in Poland and its relations with the United States, which are of continuing interest to the U.S. Congress.
Date: September 30, 2015
Creator: Mix, Derek E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Poverty in the United States in 2014: In Brief

Description: This report discusses poverty in United States that varies widely across the population according to age, education, family living arrangements, and area of residence, among other factors. The report elaborates on the poverty among selected groups, the geography of poverty, and the research supplemental poverty measure.
Date: September 30, 2015
Creator: Dalaker, Joseph
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Brazil's October 2014 Presidential Election

Description: This report briefly discusses the candidates and policy shifts in Brazil's 2014 Presidential election.
Date: September 30, 2014
Creator: Meyer, Peter J.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA): Frequently Asked Questions

Description: This report discusses the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) June 15, 2012 announcement that certain individuals who were brought to the United States as children and meet other criteria would be considered for relief from removal for two years, subject to renewal, under an initiative known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA.
Date: September 30, 2014
Creator: Bruno, Andorra
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Israel's Iron Dome Anti-Rocket System: U.S. Assistance and Coproduction

Description: This report provides a background of Israel's Iron Dome anti-rocket system and then briefly touches on other topics including U.S.-Israeli co-production of the system, and proposed future U.S. funding.
Date: September 30, 2014
Creator: Sharp, Jeremy Maxwell
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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