Information Management: The National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan (open access)

Information Management: The National Archives and Records Administration's Fiscal Year 2008 Expenditure Plan

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "To preserve and provide access to all types of electronic records, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has been developing an Electronic Records Archive (ERA), including a base system for federal records and a separate system for presidential records, known as the Executive Office of the President (EOP) system. As mandated by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2008, NARA must submit an expenditure plan to the Congress that satisfies six conditions. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which NARA's fiscal year 2008 expenditure plan satisfies the conditions and provide any other observations about the plan and the ERA acquisition. To do this, GAO reviewed the expenditure plan, interviewed NARA and contractor officials, and reviewed additional documentation."
Date: September 26, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Flyer: Finding Yourself in the Archive] (open access)

[Flyer: Finding Yourself in the Archive]

Flyer for Finding Yourself in the Archive: TWU's WASP Collection, hosted by The Woman's Collection at TWU on September 26, 2008. The first page includes a schedule of the day's events. The second page provides information about each archival stations featured at the event.
Date: September 26, 2008
Creator: Texas Woman's University. Libraries.
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 3, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 3, 2008
Creator: Nugent, Tiara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 2008
Creator: Nugent, Tiara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 2008
Creator: Nugent, Tiara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 24, 2008
Creator: Nugent, Tiara
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 3, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 1, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 3, 2008
Creator: Garcia, Martin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 10, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 2, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 2008
Creator: Garcia, Martin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 3, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 17, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 17, 2008
Creator: Garcia, Martin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 24, 2008 (open access)

The Rambler (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 101, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Weekly student newspaper from Texas Wesleyan University in Fort Worth, Texas that includes campus and local news along with advertising.
Date: September 24, 2008
Creator: Garcia, Martin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata (open access)

Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata

This paper discusses assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata. This paper reports on a content analysis of collection records in an aggregation of cultural heritage collections.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Palmer, Carole L.; Jackson, Amy S. & Han, Myung-Ja
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana

A report detailing the history of the offshore petroleum industry in Southern Louisiana, including accounts from people who were present.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Austin, Diane E.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tsunami Detection and Warnings for the United States (open access)

Tsunami Detection and Warnings for the United States

This report discusses topics in respect to tsunami disaster warnings for the United States, discussions ensued between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) about developing a multi-hazard warning and response system.
Date: September 25, 2008
Creator: Morrissey, Wayne A.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Energy Management: Addressing Challenges through Better Plans and Clarifying the Greenhouse Gas Emission Measure Will Help Meet Long-term Goals for Buildings (open access)

Federal Energy Management: Addressing Challenges through Better Plans and Clarifying the Greenhouse Gas Emission Measure Will Help Meet Long-term Goals for Buildings

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The federal government is the nation's single largest energy consumer, spending approximately $17 billion in fiscal year 2007. A number of statutes and executive orders have established and revised goals directing agencies to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions--such as carbon dioxide, which results from combustion of fossil fuels and natural processes, among other things--and increase renewable energy use. GAO was asked to determine the extent to which (1) federal agencies met energy efficiency, greenhouse gas emission, and renewable energy goals in fiscal year 2007; (2) federal agencies have made progress in each of these areas in the recent past; and (3) six selected agencies are poised to meet energy goals into the future. For this review, GAO, among other things, conducted site visits for six agencies and reviewed the Department of Energy's (DOE) annual reports to Congress on federal energy management."
Date: September 30, 2008
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing Descriptive Substance in Free-Text Collection-Level Metadata [Presentation]

Presentation for the 2008 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications on assessing descriptive substance in free-text collection-level metadata.
Date: September 24, 2008
Creator: Zavalina, Oksana; Palmer, Carole L.; Jackson, Amy S. & Han, Myung-Ja
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The United States National Report on Systematic Observations for Climate for 2008: National Activities with Respect to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Implementation Plan (open access)

The United States National Report on Systematic Observations for Climate for 2008: National Activities with Respect to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Implementation Plan

Long-term, high-accuracy, stable environmental observations are essential to define the state of the global integrated Earth system, its history and its future variability and change. Observations for climate include: (1) operational weather observations, when appropriate care has been exercised to establish high accuracy; (2) limited-duration observations collected as part of research investigations to elucidate chemical, dynamical, biological, or radiative processes that contribute to maintaining climate patterns or to their variability; (3) high accuracy, high precision observations to document decadal-to-centennial changes; and (4) observations of climate proxies, collected to extend the instrumental climate record to remote regions and back in time to provide information on climate change at millennial and longer time scales. This report was requested by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) in order to serve as input to see how progress has been made with respect to the Global Climate Observing System (GCOS) Implementation Plan developed in 2004 In accordance with the UNFCCC guidelines, the sections of the report delineate specific U.S. climate monitoring activities in several distinct yet integrated areas as follows: (1) common issues; (2) non-satellite atmospheric observations; (3) non-satellite oceanic observations; (4) non-satellite terrestrial observations; (5) satellite global atmospheric, oceanic, and terrestrial …
Date: September 2008
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program's (CCSP) Observations Working Group
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Long-Term Surveillance and Maintenance Plan for the U.S. Department of Energy Amchitka, Alaska, Site (open access)

Long-Term Surveillance and Maintenance Plan for the U.S. Department of Energy Amchitka, Alaska, Site

This Long-Term Surveillance and Maintenance Plan describes how the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) intends to fulfill its mission to maintain protection of human health and the environment at the Amchitka, Alaska, Site1. Three underground nuclear tests were conducted on Amchitka Island. The U.S. Department of Defense, in conjunction with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), conducted the first nuclear test (Long Shot) to provide data that would improve the United States' capability of detecting underground nuclear explosions. The second nuclear test (Milrow) was a weapons-related test conducted by AEC as a means to study the feasibility of detonating a much larger device. The final nuclear test (Cannikin), the largest United States underground test, was a weapons-related test. Surface disturbances associated with these tests have been remediated. However, radioactivity remains deep below the surface, contained in and around the test cavities, for which no feasible remediation technology has been identified. In 2006, the groundwater model (Hassan et al. 2002) was updated using 2005 data collected by the Consortium for Risk Evaluation with Stakeholder Participation. Model simulation results indicate there is no breakthrough or seepage of radionuclides into the marine environment within 2,000 years. The Amchitka conceptual model is reasonable; the …
Date: September 1, 2008
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 1: Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana, Volume 1: Papers on the Evolving Offshore Industry

This study examines the expansion of offshore oil and gas development and its effects on shaping Louisiana's culture, geography, society and economy.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Austin, Diane; Priest, Tyler; Penney, Lauren; Pratt, Joseph; Pulsipher, Allan G. & Abel, Joseph
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 2008 (open access)

Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, September 19, 2008

Weekly newspaper from Dell City, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 19, 2008
Creator: Morrell, Donna
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
District of Columbia v. Heller: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment (open access)

District of Columbia v. Heller: The Supreme Court and the Second Amendment

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Date: September 5, 2008
Creator: Halstead, T. J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Federal Workforce: Characteristics and Trends (open access)

The Federal Workforce: Characteristics and Trends

This report discusses the federal workforce, which is also expected by some to reflect the gender, racial, and ethnic diversity of the country as a whole. In addition, understanding recent changes in the overall size and composition of the federal workforce can indicate what changes may lie in the future.
Date: September 30, 2008
Creator: Copeland, Curtis W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
WASP Marching Songs (open access)

WASP Marching Songs

Compilation of lyrics to songs related to the Women Airforce Service Pilots, printed for the 2008 WASP Reunion. Songs in this compilation include: Yankee Doodle Pilots, Roll Out the Airplanes, Would You Like to Swing on a Star?, The Women Airforce Service Pilots of WWII, I Wanna Be a Miss H.P., You Left Your Father, Rugged But Right, Without Our Wings, and the Army Air Corps Song.
Date: September 26, 2008
Creator: Texas Woman's University. Libraries.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Addendum to the Streamlined Approach for Environmental Restoration Plan for Corrective Action Unit 134: Aboveground Storage Tanks, Nevada Test Site, Nevada (open access)

Addendum to the Streamlined Approach for Environmental Restoration Plan for Corrective Action Unit 134: Aboveground Storage Tanks, Nevada Test Site, Nevada

The following is an addendum to the Streamlined Approach for Environmental Restoration Plan for Corrective Action Unit 134: Aboveground Storage Tanks, Nevada Test Site, Nevada, DOE/NV--1275, dated May 2008. This addendum expands upon information provided in the May 2008 plan. It provides specific details regarding samples to be collected at Corrective Action Sites 15-01-05 and 29-01-01. It also provides discussion and rationale for establishing the spatial boundaries of Corrective Action Sites.
Date: September 1, 2008
Creator: National Security Technologies, LLC
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana (open access)

History of the Offshore Oil and Gas Industry in Southern Louisiana

A report detailing the history of the offshore oil and gas industry in Southern Louisiana, including a compilation of photographs, diagrams, and other visual images that were collected during the study.
Date: September 2008
Creator: Austin, Diane E. & Gaines, Justin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library