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Recent and Future Events of the McKinney Chapter (open access)

Recent and Future Events of the McKinney Chapter

Website page about the McKinney chapter of the Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution.
Date: 2019-08-23~
Creator: Texas Society, Sons of the American Revolution, McKinney Chapter 63
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Tiny Tweaks: Small Interventions to Help Improve Student Worker Performance

Presentation for Texas Conference on Digital Libraries 2019. This presentation discusses ways to enhance student assistants productivity and shares UNT's experiences, including simplifying workflows and making small changes in training that can go long ways in terms of improving students overall performances.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Willis, Shannon
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Preparing Linguists’ Field Recordings and Datasets for Ingest into a Digital Library System: Lessons from Creating the Lamkang Language Resource at the University of North Texas Digital Library

Presentation on the long term preservation of and universal access to language data which may tap into typologically rare phenomena and which represents the intangible and irreplaceable heritage of indigenous communities. This language data can be in the form of audio, video, picture, and various digital formats. In order to prepare the source files of a documentation project for ingest to a digital library, linguists and digital librarians must develop a common procedure that takes into consideration (1) provenance and varying formats of materials and (2) necessary metadata specific to linguistic datasets.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Burke, Mary; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi & Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Russell J Judah. Judah joined the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, New York, in 1944. He graduated in August of 1945. He was immediately commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy, serving mostly in the Philippines and occupied Japan. He traveled aboard the SS Mission Loreto (1944), a type T2 tanker. Judah was discharged in March of 1946.
Date: June 23, 2019
Creator: Judah, Russell J
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019 transcript

Oral History Interview with Russell J. Judah, June 23, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Russell J Judah. Judah joined the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, New York, in 1944. He graduated in August of 1945. He was immediately commissioned as an Ensign in the U.S. Navy, serving mostly in the Philippines and occupied Japan. He traveled aboard the SS Mission Loreto (1944), a type T2 tanker. Judah was discharged in March of 1946.
Date: June 23, 2019
Creator: Judah, Russell J
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 2019 (open access)

The Whitewright Sun (Whitewright, Tex.), Vol. 135, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 23, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Whitewright, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: May 23, 2019
Creator: Owen, Sarah Beth
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John W. Smith, November 23, 2019 (open access)

Oral History Interview with John W. Smith, November 23, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John W. Smith III. Jean assists with the interview. Smith was born 15 February 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks about his father’s participation with the Manhattan Project. Smith’s father, John W. Smith II, was an electrician and completed contract work for the government at Huntsville Arsenal in Alabama, Oak Ridge in Tennessee and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Smith recalls traveling with his family each time his father was relocated for work. He was 12 years old when the war in the Pacific started, and he shares memories of life in the US as a child during wartime. He served in the Navy from 1946 through 1947, then entered the Air Force. He was assigned as a navigator with the 764th Bombardment Squadron, 461st Bombardment Wing. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, retiring in 1970.
Date: November 23, 2019
Creator: Smith, John W
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mount Pleasant Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (open access)

Mount Pleasant Tribune (Mount Pleasant, Tex.), Vol. 145, No. 14, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Semiweekly newspaper from Mount Pleasant, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 23, 2019
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 23, 2019 (open access)

Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 7, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 23, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Emory, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 23, 2019
Creator: Hill, Earl, III
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John W. Smith, November 23, 2019 transcript

Oral History Interview with John W. Smith, November 23, 2019

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with John W. Smith III. Jean assists with the interview. Smith was born 15 February 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He speaks about his father’s participation with the Manhattan Project. Smith’s father, John W. Smith II, was an electrician and completed contract work for the government at Huntsville Arsenal in Alabama, Oak Ridge in Tennessee and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. Smith recalls traveling with his family each time his father was relocated for work. He was 12 years old when the war in the Pacific started, and he shares memories of life in the US as a child during wartime. He served in the Navy from 1946 through 1947, then entered the Air Force. He was assigned as a navigator with the 764th Bombardment Squadron, 461st Bombardment Wing. He served in the Korean War and the Vietnam War, retiring in 1970.
Date: November 23, 2019
Creator: Smith, John W
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 23, 2019 (open access)

The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 142, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Center, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 23, 2019
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 23, 2019 (open access)

Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 132, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Weekly newspaper from Emory, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 23, 2019
Creator: Hill, Earl, III
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 122, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 23, 2019 (open access)

The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 122, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 23, 2019

Daily newspaper from Baytown, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 23, 2019
Creator: Bloom, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History