Archives Bazaar Committee Meeting Notes 9/6/2018 (open access)

Archives Bazaar Committee Meeting Notes 9/6/2018

Document from the planning of the DFW Archives Bazaar at Dallas Heritage Village. The document summarizes the subjects discussed in the meeting, which were split into several categories according to topic. They included event and booth ideas, advertising, schedules and finances.
Date: 2018-09-06~
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics (open access)

American War and Military Operations Casualties: Lists and Statistics

This report provides U.S. war casualty statistics compiled from various Department of Defense (DOD) sources (listed at end). The first data table lists the number of casualties among American military personnel who served in principal wars and combat operations from 1775 to the present. Subsequent tables provide more specific information by conflict about the demographics of soldiers killed or wounded in action and information such as race and ethnicity, gender, branch of service, home state, and cause of death.
Date: September 14, 2018
Creator: DeBruyne, Nese F.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Panel Proposal: Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information (open access)

Panel Proposal: Policy-based collaborative approaches to preserving electronic government information

Panel proposal for iPRES 2018, the 15th International Conference on Digital Preservation. This proposal outlines a panel discussion on the preservation of electronic government information, including a brief discussion of the need for digital preservation efforts and an overview of the Preservation of Electronic Government Information (PEGI) Project.
Date: September 25, 2018
Creator: Sittel, Robbie; Graebner, Carla; Zarndt, Frederick; McCain, Edward; Matheson, Scott; Etkin, Cynthia et al.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
The ECHO, Vol. 90, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 1, 2018 (open access)

The ECHO, Vol. 90, No. 7, Ed. 1 Saturday, September 1, 2018

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: September 1, 2018
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Phantom Vietnam War: An F-4 Pilot’s Combat over Laos

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David R. “Buff” Honodel was a cocky young man with an inflated self-image when he arrived in 1969 at his base in Udorn, Thailand. His war was not in Vietnam; it was a secret one in the skies of a neighboring country almost unknown in America, attacking the Ho Chi Minh Trail that fed soldiers and supplies from North Vietnam into the South. Stateside he learned the art of flying the F-4, but in combat, the bomb-loaded fighter handled differently, targets shot back, and people suffered. Inert training ordnance was replaced by lethal weapons. In the air, a routine day mission turned into an unexpected duel with a deadly adversary. Complacency during a long night mission escorting a gunship almost led to death. A best friend died just before New Year’s. A RF-4 crashed into the base late in Buff’s tour of duty. The reader will experience Buff’s war from the cockpit of a supersonic F-4D Phantom II, doing 5-G pullouts after dropping six 500-pound bombs on trucks hidden beneath triple jungle canopy. These were well defended by a skillful, elusive, determined enemy firing back with 37mm anti-aircraft fire and tracers in the sky. The man who left the States …
Date: September 2018
Creator: Honodel, David R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Federal Role in U.S. Campaigns and Elections: An Overview (open access)

Federal Role in U.S. Campaigns and Elections: An Overview

This report provides a resource for understanding the current campaigns and elections regulatory structure. It addresses those areas of law and public policy that most directly and routinely affect American campaigns and elections: campaign finance; election administration; election security; redistricting; qualifications and contested elections; and voting rights.
Date: September 4, 2018
Creator: Garrett, R. Sam
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 2018 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coleman Chronicle & Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2018 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle & Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 137, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 5, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 5, 2018
Creator: Berry, Lizzy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 2018 (open access)

The Schulenburg Sticker (Schulenburg, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Schulenburg, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 6, 2018
Creator: Prause, Diane & Vyvjala, Darrell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George Beard, September 6, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Beard, September 6, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Beard. He was born in 1924. In 1943, he joined the United States Army Air Forces. Upon completing basic training, he underwent pilot training and became a B-24 pilot. After spending time in Panama, he was sent to New Guinea where he underwent jungle training. He then went to Clark Field, Philippine Islands. There he flew missions over Japan and he tells of seeing smoke residue from the atomic bomb blast. Beard returned to the US after the war ended.
Date: September 6, 2018
Creator: Beard, George
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 2018 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 2018

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: September 27, 2018
Creator: Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 26, 2018 (open access)

The University News (Irving, Tex.), Vol. 43, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 26, 2018

Weekly student newspaper from the University of Dallas in Irving, Texas that includes campus news and commentaries along with advertising.
Date: September 26, 2018
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 72, No. 1, Ed. 1, September 2018 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 72, No. 1, Ed. 1, September 2018

Monthly newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date: September 2018
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 36, Pages 5719-5874, September 7, 2018 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 43, Number 36, Pages 5719-5874, September 7, 2018

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: September 7, 2018
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electric Grid Cybersecurity (open access)

Electric Grid Cybersecurity

This report discusses the current state of electric grid cybersecurity, and the interconnected dependency of critical infrastructure with regard to electric sector reliability. It includes discussions of recent developments, cyber and physical security, threats to the grid and supply chain risks, use of artificial intelligence, improvements to grid cybersecurity, recent legislation and other issues for Congress.
Date: September 4, 2018
Creator: Campbell, Richard J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fiscal Size-Up 2018-19 Biennium (open access)

Fiscal Size-Up 2018-19 Biennium

Biennial report produced by the Texas Legislative Budget Board providing information about the structure and operation of the state government including an overview of the budget, descriptions of revenue sources and funds, the economic outlook and demographic information, and descriptions of the programs, activities, and issues of state agencies and institutions.
Date: September 2018
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Portal to Texas History: Walking in the Footprints of History

Presentation for the Cedar Hill Genealogy Society. This presentation describes how The Portal to Texas History can facilitate genealogical research.
Date: September 13, 2018
Creator: Krahmer, Ana
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries (open access)

Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries

Paper presented at the 2018 International Conference on Dublin Core and Metadata Applications Initiative (DCMI). This paper describes work underway at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to design and implement interfaces and tools for analyzing metadata quality in their local metadata editing environment.
Date: September 2018
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward & Tarver, Hannah
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Barbier, September 15, 2018 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Barbier, September 15, 2018

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Barbier. Barbier joined the Navy in June 1941. He went to boot camp in San Diego, California. Upon graduating, he was assigned as a gunner’s mate aboard USS Louisville (CA-26) at Pearl Harbor. The Louisville was involved in the Battle of Leyte Gulf at Surigao Strait and then at Lingayen Gulf. He survived damage caused by a number of kamikaze attacks, one of which claimed the life of Admiral Theodore Chandler. Barbier notes that Admiral William McCarty took over the Louisville. After the war ended, Barbier served in the military occupation of Japan, and remained in the Reserves for 10 years.
Date: September 15, 2018
Creator: Barbier, George
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

Experiments in Operationalizing Metadata Quality Interfaces: A Case Study at the University of North Texas Libraries

Presentation for the 2018 Dublin Core Metadata Initiative Conference. This presentation describes work underway at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries to design and implement interfaces and tools for analyzing metadata quality in their local metadata editing environment.
Date: September 10, 2018
Creator: Tarver, Hannah & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary Of Fiscal Size-up for the 2018-19 Biennium (open access)

Summary Of Fiscal Size-up for the 2018-19 Biennium

Report giving a summary of the state budget fiscal size-up for the 2018-19 biennium.
Date: September 2018
Creator: Texas. Legislative Budget Board.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 2018 (open access)

Garber Billings News (Garber, Okla.), Vol. 118, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 27, 2018

Weekly newspaper from Garber, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 27, 2018
Creator: Deeds, Lacey
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 2018 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 20, 2018

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 20, 2018
Creator: Pruden, Todd
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Infrastructure Financing: The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Program (open access)

Water Infrastructure Financing: The Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) Program

This report discusses the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act which is planning to provide subsidized loans and credit assistance to water infrastructure projects through the EPA (Environmental Protection Agency).
Date: September 26, 2018
Creator: Ramseur, Jonathan L. & Tiemann, Mary
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library