83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 59, Chapter 1312 (open access)

83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 59, Chapter 1312

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to required reports and other documents prepared by state agencies and institutions of higher education.
Date: June 14, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Web Archiving Bibliography 2013 (open access)

Web Archiving Bibliography 2013

The following document is a bibliography of the field of web archiving. It includes a preface as well as a list of bibliographical resources.
Date: June 28, 2013
Creator: Reyes Ayala, Brenda
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Millennium Challenge Corporation: Review of Compact Records and Information Management Program (open access)

Millennium Challenge Corporation: Review of Compact Records and Information Management Program

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "In 2006, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) established a records and information management program to maintain and preserve its federal records. The program includes policies related to compact management records--a subset of MCC's federal records. These policies also address the handling of other compact-related information generated by MCC partner governments' accountable entities, which typically manage compact implementation until the 5-year compacts close. MCC's policies require that the entities transfer their compact management records to MCC for storage before compact closure. MCC also requires that partner governments retain compact-related information not classified as records, such as survey data and data quality reviews, for at least 5 years after their compacts close, to facilitate audits and analysis of MCC assistance. However, MCC does not require, and has not conducted, periodic reviews to determine whether it has received all compact-management records from the accountable entities consistent with federal internal control standards. As a result, MCC cannot be sure that it is meeting the federal requirement that it preserve all records documenting its functions, activities, and other transactions."
Date: June 20, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Information Technology: Additional Executive Review Sessions Needed to Address Troubled Projects (open access)

Information Technology: Additional Executive Review Sessions Needed to Address Troubled Projects

A letter report issued by the Government Accountability Office with an abstract that begins "Since January 2010, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and selected agencies have held multiple TechStat Accountability Sessions (TechStats) on information technology (IT) investments that varied in terms of function, significance, and risk. As of April 2013, OMB reported conducting 79 TechStats, which focused on 55 investments at 23 federal agencies. The four agencies conducted 37 TechStats covering 28 investments. About 70 percent of the OMB- and 76 percent of agency-led TechStats on major investments were considered medium- to high-risk at the time of the TechStat. However, the number of at-risk TechStats held to date is relatively small compared to the current number of medium- and high-risk IT investments. Until OMB and agencies develop plans to address these investments, the investments will likely remain at risk."
Date: June 13, 2013
Creator: United States. Government Accountability Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
DGS Newsletter, Volume 39, Number 2, April-June 2013 (open access)

DGS Newsletter, Volume 39, Number 2, April-June 2013

Newsletter of the Dallas Genealogical Society discussing membership, Society meetings, genealogical workshops and events, and other news of interest to members.
Date: June 2013
Creator: Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Laying the Groundwork for Newspaper Preservation through Collaboration and Communication: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program (open access)

Laying the Groundwork for Newspaper Preservation through Collaboration and Communication: The Texas Digital Newspaper Program

This paper discusses the history of the Texas Digital Newspaper Program and associated digital newspaper initiatives at the University of North Texas Libraries.
Date: June 2013
Creator: Krahmer, Ana & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Paper
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Compatriot, Spring 2013 (open access)

The Texas Compatriot, Spring 2013

Publication of the Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, containing news and events related to the organization and its members.
Date: June 15, 2013
Creator: Sons of the American Revolution. Texas Society.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library

I Fought a Good Fight: a History of the Lipan Apaches

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This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into Coahuila, coming into conflict with the Comanches. With a knack for making friends and forging alliances, they survived against all odds, and were still free long after their worst enemies were corralled on reservations. In the most thorough account yet published, Sherry Robinson tracks the Lipans from their earliest interactions with Spaniards and kindred Apache groups through later alliances and to their love-hate relationships with Mexicans, Texas colonists, Texas Rangers, and the U.S. Army. For the first time we hear of the Eastern Apache confederacy of allied but autonomous groups that joined for war, defense, and trade. Among their confederates, and led by chiefs with a diplomatic bent, Lipans drew closer to the Spanish, Mexicans, and Texans. By the 1880s, with their numbers dwindling and ground lost to Mexican campaigns and Mackenzie’s raids, the Lipans roamed with Mescalero Apaches, some with Victorio. Many remained in …
Date: June 15, 2013
Creator: Robinson, Sherry
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 98, No. 150, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 26, 2013 (open access)

The Oklahoma Daily (Norman, Okla.), Vol. 98, No. 150, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Student newspaper of the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma that includes national, local, and campus news along with advertising.
Date: June 26, 2013
Creator: Buchanan, Blayklee
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Competencies Required for Digital Curation: An Analysis of Job Advertisements (open access)

Competencies Required for Digital Curation: An Analysis of Job Advertisements

Article discussing competencies required for digital curation. The results of the analysis show that digital curation jobs are characterized by a complex interplay of various skills and knowledge. The findings of this study present emerging requirements for a qualified workforce in the field of digital curation.
Date: June 14, 2013
Creator: Kim, Jeonghyun; Warga, Edward & Moen, William E.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Journal of Applied Rehabilitation Counseling, Volume 44, Number 2, Summer 2013

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Official, quarterly journal of the National Rehabilitation Counseling Association (NRCA) containing articles, opinions, and research in professional rehabilitation counseling regarding the needs of individuals employed in a wide variety of work settings and with wide-ranging professional interests.
Date: June 2013
Creator: National Rehabilitation Counseling Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 66, No. 10, Ed. 1, June 2013 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 66, No. 10, Ed. 1, June 2013

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: June 2013
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1025, Chapter 836 (open access)

83rd Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 1025, Chapter 836

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to making supplemental appropriations and reductions in appropriations and giving direction and adjustment authority regarding appropriations.
Date: June 14, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West

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John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until his capture in 1877 by Texas Rangers and Florida law officials. He certainly killed twenty men; some credited him with killing forty or more. After sixteen years in Huntsville prison he was pardoned by Governor Hogg. For a short while he avoided trouble and roamed westward, eventually establishing a home of sorts in wild and woolly El Paso as an attorney. He became embroiled in the dark side of that city and eventually lost his final gunfight to an El Paso constable, John Selman. Hardin was forty-two years old. Besides his reputation as the deadliest man with a six-gun, he left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, …
Date: June 15, 2013
Creator: Parsons, Chuck & Brown, Norman Wayne
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Workshop Report on Atomic Bomb Dosimetry--Residual Radiation Exposure: Recent Research and Suggestions for Future Studies (open access)

Workshop Report on Atomic Bomb Dosimetry--Residual Radiation Exposure: Recent Research and Suggestions for Future Studies

There is a need for accurate dosimetry for studies of health effects in the Japanese atomic bomb survivors because of the important role that these studies play in worldwide radiation protection standards. International experts have developed dosimetry systems, such as the Dosimetry System 2002 (DS02), which assess the initial radiation exposure to gamma rays and neutrons but only briefly consider the possibility of some minimal contribution to the total body dose by residual radiation exposure. In recognition of the need for an up-to-date review of the topic of residual radiation exposure in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, recently reported studies were reviewed at a technical session at the 57th Annual Meeting of the Health Physics Society in Sacramento, California, 22-26 July 2012. A one-day workshop was also held to provide time for detailed discussion of these newer studies and to evaluate their potential use in clarifying the residual radiation exposures to the atomic-bomb survivors at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Suggestions for possible future studies are also included in this workshop report.
Date: June 6, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

[TXSSAR McKinney Chapter monthly meeting flyer: June 20th, 2013

Webpage from McKinney TXSSAR website containing a flyer for the June 20, 2013 meeting.
Date: June 20, 2013
Creator: Texas Society Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Minutes: The Dallas Way, June 4, 2013] (open access)

[Minutes: The Dallas Way, June 4, 2013]

Minutes for the June 4th meeting of the Dallas Way including details on the various reports and projects.
Date: June 4, 2013
Creator: The Dallas Way
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Collaborative Approach to Address Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation Challenges

Presentation for the Cross Timbers Library Collaborative (CTLC) Scholarly Communications and Digital Curation (SCDC) Affinity Group 2013 Summer Meeting. In this presentation, the authors discuss collaborative approaches to address scholarly communications and digital curation challenges.
Date: June 14, 2013
Creator: Helge, Kris; Waugh, Laura & Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 2013 (open access)

The Canadian Record (Canadian, Tex.), Vol. 123, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 20, 2013

Weekly newspaper from Canadian, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: June 20, 2013
Creator: Brown, Laurie Ezzell
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Live Archiving Proxy Project Closure (open access)

Live Archiving Proxy Project Closure

This report documents the closing of the Live Archiving Proxy Project to build an HTTP proxy that is able to capture the traffic that flows through it, and delegate the handling fo the captured data to a writer using a simple network protocol. This report summarizes the project and its deliverables, and includes feedback on the project from the British Library, the Internet Memory Foundation, and Netarkivet.dk.
Date: June 19, 2013
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Taxation of Hedge Fund and Private Equity Managers (open access)

Taxation of Hedge Fund and Private Equity Managers

This report discusses the major issues surrounding the tax treatment of hedge fund and private equity managers.
Date: June 20, 2013
Creator: Marples, Donald J.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George Riddle, June 24, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with George Riddle, June 24, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with George Riddle. Riddle joined the Navy in March of 1943. He served as a Radarman, completing training in radio design, electronics, communications, and on a magnetic air detection system to locate submarines. Riddle was stationed in Florida, training pilots and other operators in radar systems. He was stationed in the US throughout the duration of the war, receiving a discharge in late 1945.
Date: June 24, 2013
Creator: Riddle, George
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Official Web Site of the U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Criticality Safety Program (open access)

The Official Web Site of the U.S. Department of Energy's Nuclear Criticality Safety Program

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Date: June 11, 2013
Creator: Koponen, B. L.; Heinrichs, D. P.; Lee, C. K. & Scott, L.
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Benjamin Ostrofsky, June 20, 2013 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Benjamin Ostrofsky, June 20, 2013

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Benjamin Ostrofsky. Ostrofsky joined the Army Air Forces in January of 1943 as an Aviation Cadet. He completed Navigation School that same year. He then went through a College Training Detachment at the University of Massachusetts to study algebra and physics. In 1944, Ostrofsky completed pre-flight training as part of his navigation training at Maxwell Air Force Base, and received additional navigation training at Ellington Air Force Base, graduating January of 1945. While waiting for assignment with a B-29 combat crew headed for the Pacific, the war ended. He shares numerous details of his training experiences. He served in the Reserves in the Korean War, and was discharged around late 1953.
Date: June 20, 2013
Creator: Ostrofsky, Benjamin
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History