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National Archives and Records Administration: Actions Needed to Ensure Facilities That Store Federal Records Meet Standards (open access)

National Archives and Records Administration: Actions Needed to Ensure Facilities That Store Federal Records Meet Standards

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Agencies are to store federal records in three types of facilities:"
Date: September 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 10, 2013 to December 19, 2013.
Date: 2013-01-10/2013-12-19
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Freedom of Information Act: Office of Government Information Services Has Begun Implementing Its Responsibilities, but Further Actions Are Needed (open access)

Freedom of Information Act: Office of Government Information Services Has Begun Implementing Its Responsibilities, but Further Actions Are Needed

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since its establishment in 2009, the Office of Government Information Services (OGIS) has provided comments on proposed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) regulations for 18 of 99 federal agencies that administer FOIA, as well as a number of Privacy Act system of records notices. While OGIS has suggested improvements to a number of those regulations and notices, it has not performed the reviews of regulations and notices in a proactive, comprehensive manner, and has not conducted any reviews of agencies' compliance with the law. In addition, since it was established 4 years ago, the office has not developed a methodology for conducting reviews of agencies' FOIA policies and procedures, or for compliance with FOIA requirements. OGIS is in the early stages of developing a methodology for conducting such reviews, but has not established a time frame for completion. Until OGIS establishes a methodology and time frame for proactively reviewing agencies' FOIA policies, procedures, and compliance, the office will not be positioned to effectively execute its responsibilities as required by the act."
Date: September 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exhibits @ UNT. An Implementation Proposal (open access)

Exhibits @ UNT. An Implementation Proposal

Report for the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries proposing new methods and ideas for displaying online exhibits.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Hicks, William
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework (open access)

The Protection of Classified Information: The Legal Framework

This report provides an overview of the relationship between executive and legislative authority over national security information, and summarizes the current laws that form the legal framework protecting classified information, including current executive orders and some agency regulations pertaining to the handling of unauthorized disclosures of classified information by government officers and employees. The report also summarizes criminal laws that pertain specifically to the unauthorized disclosure of classified information, as well as civil and administrative penalties. Finally, the report describes some recent developments in executive branch security policies and relevant legislative activity.
Date: January 10, 2013
Creator: Elsea, Jennifer K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy (open access)

Kuwait: Security, Reform, and U.S. Policy

This report looks at Kuwait's relationships with its neighbors in the Persian Gulf, and its own political system which has been in turmoil since 2006.
Date: July 10, 2013
Creator: Katzman, Kenneth
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Education Research: Preliminary Observations on the Institute of Education Sciences' Research and Evaluation Efforts (open access)

Education Research: Preliminary Observations on the Institute of Education Sciences' Research and Evaluation Efforts

Testimony issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "The Institute of Education Sciences (IES) supports high-quality research, according to stakeholders, but lacks certain key procedures needed to fulfill other aspects of its mission. Since its inception, IES has substantially improved the quality of education research. However, stakeholders expressed some concerns about IES's ability to produce timely and relevant research that meets their various needs. For example, IES's efforts to respond quickly to its stakeholders are slowed, in part, because the time IES's products have spent in peer review substantially increased this past year, and IES does not monitor some aspects of these timeframes. In addition, IES does not have a structured process for incorporating stakeholder input into its research agenda, which previous GAO work has shown to be key to sound federal research programs. Lastly, IES's performance measures do not fully reflect its current programs, which is not consistent with GAO's leading practices for performance management. IES officials said, however, that they have begun to develop new performance measures for all of their programs."
Date: September 10, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Veterans’ Benefits: Burial Benefits and National Cemeteries (open access)

Veterans’ Benefits: Burial Benefits and National Cemeteries

This report provides a descriptive analysis of both non-monetary and monetary burial benefits and national cemeteries. It addresses congressional and constituent issues, such as who is legible to receive burial benefits; who can be buried in a national cemetery; what plans does the Department of Veteran's Affairs (VA) have to build new or expand existing national cemeteries; and what benefits does the VA provide, among others.
Date: January 10, 2013
Creator: Scott, Christine
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 38, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 10, 2013 (open access)

Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 104, No. 38, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 10, 2013

Semiweekly newspaper from Seminole, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 10, 2013
Creator: Wright, Dustin
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
TXSSAR, Arlington Chapter 7, Constitution and Bylaws, 2013 (open access)

TXSSAR, Arlington Chapter 7, Constitution and Bylaws, 2013

A document outlining the TXSSAR Constitution and Bylaws that have been approved by and for the Arlington Chapter (#7). Included are the names of the then current officers as well as a completed and official constitution.
Date: August 10, 2013
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, Arlington Chapter 7
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 10, 2013 (open access)

Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 134, No. 14, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Jacksboro, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 10, 2013
Creator: Hudson, Pam
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 38, Number 19, Pages 2807-2920, May 10, 2013 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 38, Number 19, Pages 2807-2920, May 10, 2013

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: May 10, 2013
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 2013 (open access)

Dallas Voice (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 52, Ed. 1 Friday, May 10, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news and advertising of interest to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community.
Date: May 10, 2013
Creator: Wright, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Background, Funding, and Activities (open access)

The Federal Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program: Background, Funding, and Activities

This report discusses the federal government's role in the country's information technology (IT) research and development (R&D) activities. The government's support of IT R&D began because it had an important interest in creating computers and software that would be capable of addressing the problems and issues the government needed to solve and study.
Date: June 10, 2013
Creator: Figliola, Patricia Moloney
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Employment for Veterans: Trends and Programs (open access)

Employment for Veterans: Trends and Programs

Veterans' employment outcomes in the civilian labor market are an issue of ongoing congressional interest. This report offers introductory data on veterans' performance in the civilian labor market as well as a discussion of veteran-targeted federal programs that provide employment-related benefits and services.
Date: January 10, 2013
Creator: Collins, Benjamin; Bradley, David H.; Dilger, Robert Jay; Dortch, Cassandria; Kapp, Lawrence; Lowry, Sean et al.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bill Price, May 10, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Bill Price, May 10, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Bill Price. Price joined the Navy in 1943 and received basic training in San Diego. Upon completion, he was assigned to the USS Oakland (CL-95) as a first loader on a 40-milimeter. Standing beside the gun with no protective shield, he was vulnerable to enemy fire. After a year and a half, Price was transferred to the storekeepers division, where he maintained five storerooms of dry goods. When the kitchen placed an order, deckhands retrieved goods from Price and delivered them by hand. At the signing of the peace treaty, the Oakland was right beside the Missouri, and Price watched the Japanese delegation climb aboard. While on liberty, Price observed that Yokohama had been completely destroyed. After the war, there was pressure for storekeepers to remain in the service, but Price insisted on going home. He was discharged in December 1945.
Date: May 10, 2013
Creator: Price, Bill
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gerald Rehbein, December 10, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gerald Rehbein, December 10, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Gerald Rehbein. Rehbein joined the Navy in April of 1944. He completed Radio School. In early 1945, he traveled aboard a troop transport ship to Guadalcanal. Rehbein speaks of the manual labor and living conditions while on the island. He was later transferred to Tulagi, loading and unloading supplies and ammunition. He was assigned as Radioman aboard the USS Fieberling (DE-640). They covered landings during the Battle of Okinawa, and operated on escort duty between Okinawa, Guam and Saipan until October of 1945. Rehbein returned to the US and received his discharge in early 1946.
Date: December 10, 2013
Creator: Rehbein, Gerald
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 2013 (open access)

Electra Star-News (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 106, No. 20, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 10, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Electra, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 10, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George Haddad, August 10, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Haddad, August 10, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Haddad. Haddad shares much about his family history and growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1930s. He joined the Army in May of 1944. He trained at Fort Bragg, North Carolina and served with the 7th Infantry Division as a gunner on a 155mm gun and a 105mm howitzer. In May of 1945, Haddad traveled to Okinawa aboard USS Leon (APA-48), then went ashore via a Higgins boat. He explains his experiences through the battle, ending in June. Haddad and his division traveled to Korea and served with the occupation of Japan, returning to the US in 1946.
Date: August 10, 2013
Creator: Haddad, George
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Hilltop Views (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 2013 (open access)

Hilltop Views (Austin, Tex.), Vol. 33, No. 9, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 10, 2013

Weekly student newspaper from St. Edward's University in Austin, Texas that includes news and information of interest to the college community along with advertising.
Date: April 10, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Background and Current Developments (open access)

Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty: Background and Current Developments

This report discusses the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty (CTBT), which bans all nuclear explosion and was in 1996 adopted by the U.N. General Assembly but rejected by the U.S. Senate in 1997. This report discusses the Obama Administration's stated goal of pursuing U.S. ratification of the CTBT, although the Administration has mainly focused on securing Senate consent to ratification of the New Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (New START). This report also discusses other nuclear weapons-related issues as well as the long history of nuclear testing.
Date: June 10, 2013
Creator: Medalia, Jonathan
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 100, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 10, 2013 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 100, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 10, 2013

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 10, 2013
Creator: Cobb, Dawn
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, October 10, 2013

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Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, a yogini from Lynn, Massachusetts. Gaudette discusses growing up, discovering a love of nature, astrology and spiritualism, meditation, considering a monastic vocation as a teenager and quitting religion, thoughts on her family's struggles, her marriage and divorce, having a son, becoming a Ayurvedic yogini, reading charts, planetary energy, Scott and Helen Nearing, dowsing, death and souls, chakras, and Helen Nearing's death.
Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Gaudette, Jeanne
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eugene Ganske, March 10, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Eugene Ganske, March 10, 2013

The National museum of the Pacific War presents an ortal interview with Eugene Ganske. Ganske attempted to join the Navy but wopund up in the Marine Corps instead in May 1944. He trained as an anti-aircraft gunner and eventually was sent to Tinian to guard B-29s. He also deployed to Okinawa after the invasion. After the war, Ganske went to CHina with the First Marine Division.
Date: March 10, 2013
Creator: Ganske, Eugene
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History