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[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2014] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2014]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 9, 2014 to December 18, 2014.
Date: 2014-01-09/2014-12-18
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Abilene Philharmonic Playbill: January 25-February 22, 2014 (open access)

Abilene Philharmonic Playbill: January 25-February 22, 2014

Program for an Abilene Philharmonic concert that ran from January 25th to February 22nd during the 63rd season. It includes information about the pieces performed, artists and musicians, and advertising from local companies.
Date: Winter 2014
Creator: Abilene Philharmonic
System: The Portal to Texas History
Abilene Philharmonic Playbill: April 12-May 3, 2014 (open access)

Abilene Philharmonic Playbill: April 12-May 3, 2014

Program for an Abilene Philharmonic concert that ran from April 12th to May 3rd during the 63rd season. It includes information about the pieces performed, artists and musicians, and advertising from local companies.
Date: Spring 2014
Creator: Abilene Philharmonic
System: The Portal to Texas History
Wills Road Map: Practical Considerations in Will Drafting (open access)

Wills Road Map: Practical Considerations in Will Drafting

From introduction: "The purpose of Wills Road Map is to pull together legal concepts from various areas that impact the preparation of wills, including wills, probate, and trust law. While it features a very basic discussion of estate tax planning, the primary focus is on the various state law issues [...] to provide practical help, so the emphasis is on addressing principles that can affect the will beyond the language used in the will itself" (p. xiii).
Date: 2014
Creator: Akers, Steve R.; Jones, Bernard E. & Watts, R. J., II
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guidance Documents for Lifecycle  Management of ETDs (open access)

Guidance Documents for Lifecycle Management of ETDs

In 2011, a research team led by the University of North Texas, the Educopia Institute/MetaArchive Cooperative, and the worldwide Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD), began studying the production, dissemination, and preservation of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). The original intent was to develop and disseminate documentation for academic libraries that would help curators better understand and address the preservation challenges presented by these new digital collections. As researchers from the libraries of University of North Texas, Virginia Tech, Rice University, Boston College, Indiana State University, Penn State, and the University of Arizona began to grapple with ETD lifecycle management issues, they quickly realized that librarians were but one of many academic stakeholder groups that work collaboratively to produce and maintain ETD collections. Studying the library role in isolation was neither feasible nor helpful. The scope of our work increased to encompass the roles and responsibilities of core stakeholders in the ETD lifecycle: students, faculty, administrators, technologists, commercial vendors, and librarians. The resulting Guidance Documents address areas of interest to ETD program planners, managers, and curators. They will help this extended set of stakeholders understand, document, and address the administrative, legal, and technical challenges presented by ETDs—from submission …
Date: March 19, 2014
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw; Donovan, Bill; Halbert, Martin; Han, Yan; Henry, Geneva; Hswe, Patricia et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Transcript: A Paris Journal] (open access)

[Transcript: A Paris Journal]

Edited transcript of a diary kept by Bill Nelson, Jr. from January 31 to August 2, 1971 while he was living in Paris, France for eight months in his early twenties. The original handwritten diary has been transcribed and images of subjects mentioned are embedded in the text. In the diary Nelson details his sightseeing trips in France, as well as his romantic and sexual encounters with men.
Date: 2014~/2017~
Creator: Anglin, Mike
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Program: Black Tie Dinner, 2014] (open access)

[Program: Black Tie Dinner, 2014]

Program of the 33rd annual Black Tie Dinner gala, benefitting the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, held at the Sheraton Hotel in Dallas on 15 November 2014. The program includes biographical notes and photographs of the presenters as well as the menu of the dinner, with advertisements constituting a large portion of the publication.
Date: 2014
Creator: Black Tie Dinner, Inc.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials (open access)

Intellectual Property: Law & the Information Society—Cases and Materials

This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. It focuses on the three graphmain forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but many of the ideas discussed here apply far beyond those legal areas and far beyond the law of the United States. The book is intended to be a textbook for the basic Intellectual Property class, but because it is an open coursebook, which can be freely edited and customized, it is also suitable for an undergraduate class, or for a business, library studies, communications or other graduate school class. Each chapter contains cases and secondary readings and a set of problems or role-playing exercises involving the material. The problems range from a video of the Napster oral argument to counseling clients about search engines and trademarks, applying the First Amendment to digital rights management and copyright or commenting on the Supreme Court’s new rulings on gene patents.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Boyle, James & Jenkins, Jennifer
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017 (open access)

Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017

Report submitted by the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas to the 84th regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 with supporting documentation.
Date: August 4, 2014
Creator: Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2015-2019 (open access)

Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2015-2019

Agency strategic plan for the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.
Date: June 18, 2014
Creator: Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant Project Annual Budget: 2015 (open access)

Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant Project Annual Budget: 2015

Proposed budget for the Coastal Water Authority Red Bluff Water Treatment Plant in Harris County, Texas outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: November 12, 2014
Creator: Coastal Water Authority
System: The Portal to Texas History
Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: New Reports and Findings (open access)

Participatory Design in Academic Libraries: New Reports and Findings

This report looks at how staff at eight academic institutions gained new insight about how students and faculty use their libraries, and how the staff are using these findings to improve library technologies, space, and services. Participatory design is a relatively recent approach to understanding library user behavior. It is based on techniques used in anthropological and ethnographic observation. The report is based on a series of presentations at the second CLIR Seminar on Participatory Design of Academic Libraries, held at the University of Rochester’s River Campus June 5-7, 2013. Chapters focus on projects at the University of Colorado, Boulder; Colby College; University of Connecticut; Columbia University; Rush University Medical Center; Purdue University; Northwestern University; and the University of Rochester. David Lindahl, of the University of Missouri-Kansas City, provided the keynote.
Date: February 2014
Creator: Council on Library and Information Resources
System: The UNT Digital Library
Family Histories of Bennett Allen Nance and Archie Carlisle Lebus (open access)

Family Histories of Bennett Allen Nance and Archie Carlisle Lebus

Family histories and biographical information (including photographs, records, and other materials) compiled as part of a personal genealogical project. The book is grouped into five sections: Bennett Allen Nance Family History; Archie Carlisle Lebus Family History; Nance Family Group Sheets; LeBus Family Group Sheets; and Simple Register Report - Descendants of Bennett and Archie LeBus Nance. Index starts on page 284.
Date: 2014
Creator: Croft, Lucy Ann Nancy
System: The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Reference Book, Version 5.1 (open access)

Dallas Area Rapid Transit Reference Book, Version 5.1

Annual compilation of information about the DART system. Provides key data, maps, and contacts.
Date: May 2014
Creator: Dallas Area Rapid Transit
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog for David Dike Fine Art Texas Art Auction: 2014 (open access)

Catalog for David Dike Fine Art Texas Art Auction: 2014

Catalog of items to be auctioned by the David Dike Fine Art gallery with a listing of information about each artwork including an image, the artist and medium, and estimate of value. Index of artists begins on page 112.
Date: 2014
Creator: David Dike Fine Art
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog for City of Denton Parks and Recreation, Fall & Winter 2014-2015 (open access)

Catalog for City of Denton Parks and Recreation, Fall & Winter 2014-2015

Catalog of seasonal activities offered by City of Denton Parks and Recreation, including special events, programs, and classes, broken down by age groups.
Date: 2014
Creator: Denton (Tex.). Parks and Recreation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog for City of Denton Parks and Recreation, Spring & Summer 2014 (open access)

Catalog for City of Denton Parks and Recreation, Spring & Summer 2014

Catalog of seasonal activities offered by City of Denton Parks and Recreation, including special events, programs, and classes, broken down by age groups.
Date: 2014
Creator: Denton (Tex.). Parks and Recreation.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Employees Retirement System of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2015-2019 (open access)

Employees Retirement System of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2015-2019

Agency strategic plan for the Employees Retirement System of Texas describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.
Date: July 2014
Creator: Employees Retirement System of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
New Employee Benefits Guide: Plan Year 2015 (open access)

New Employee Benefits Guide: Plan Year 2015

Guide to benefits for new Texas state employees outlining health insurance coverage options, life insurance, disability insurance, specialized savings plans, retirement plans, and 401Ks.
Date: August 2014
Creator: Employees Retirement System of Texas
System: The Portal to Texas History
Laser Interactions for the Synthesis and In Situ Diagnostics of Nanomaterials (open access)

Laser Interactions for the Synthesis and In Situ Diagnostics of Nanomaterials

Laser interactions have traditionall been at thec center of nanomaterials science, providing highly nonequilibrium growth conditions to enable the syn- thesis of novel new nanoparticles, nanotubes, and nanowires with metastable phases. Simultaneously, lasers provide unique opportunities for the remote char- acterization of nanomaterial size, structure, and composition through tunable laser spectroscopy, scattering, and imaging. Pulsed lasers offer the opportunity, there- fore, to supply the required energy and excitation to both control and understand the growth processes of nanomaterials, providing valuable views of the typically nonequilibrium growth kinetics and intermediates involved. Here we illustrate the key challenges and progress in laser interactions for the synthesis and in situ diagnostics of nanomaterials through recent examples involving primarily carbon nanomaterials, including the pulsed growth of carbon nanotubes and graphene.
Date: January 1, 2014
Creator: Geohegan, David B.; Puretzky, Alexander A.; Yoon, Mina; Eres, Gyula; Rouleau, Christopher; Xiao, Kai et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Roadside Parks Study: Historic Context & National Register Requirements (open access)

Texas Roadside Parks Study: Historic Context & National Register Requirements

A historic overview of evolution and development of roadside parks and rest areas in Texas constructed by the Texas Department of Transportation from 1930 to 2015
Date: December 16, 2014
Creator: Gredler, Sara; Rulz, Megan; Goodson, Heather & Mitchell, Rick
System: The Portal to Texas History
Howard County Junior College District Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017 (open access)

Howard County Junior College District Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017

Report submitted by the Howard County Junior College District containing background information, and summaries of requests for appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal years 2016 and 2017 with supporting documentation.
Date: July 31, 2014
Creator: Howard County Junior College District
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Howard Payne University, 2014-2015 (open access)

Catalog of Howard Payne University, 2014-2015

Catalog describes the history, governance, admission requirements, course offerings, and campus life of Howard Payne University in Brownwood, Texas.
Date: June 1, 2014
Creator: Howard Payne University
System: The Portal to Texas History
War in the Pacific: A Chronology January 1, 1941 through September 30, 1945 (open access)

War in the Pacific: A Chronology January 1, 1941 through September 30, 1945

Text outlining major events in the Pacific Theater throughout World War II, organized by date. It also includes text for the Instrument of Surrender, appendices containing military and war data, a bibliography, and list of related Web sites.
Date: March 2014
Creator: Hyland, George O., III
System: The UNT Digital Library