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2016 Performance and Accountability Report (open access)

2016 Performance and Accountability Report

The FY 2016 Performance and Accountability Report for the Institute of Museum and Library Services comes as IMLS begins a yearlong celebration marking its 20th Anniversary. In the last 20 years, IMLS has worked to benefit libraries of all types: public, research, academic and tribal; and museums of all disciplines: history, botanic gardens, aquariums, science and technology centers, children’s museums and zoos. With the help of a range of partners, IMLS has inspired libraries and museums to advance innovation, learning and civic engagement. That work will continue into the coming years as libraries and museums are urged abd encouraged to “Reimagine the Future” and how they can best serve the communities in which they reside. Those goals are reflected in this year’s report: to continue to focus on creating a nation of learners by preserving and providing broad public access to collections and content; and promoting policies that ensure robust library, museum, and information services for all Americans. IMLS continues to be an outstanding steward of federal funds and will continue to look for ways to achieve even greater impact on library and museum services throughout the United States.
Date: 2016
Creator: Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)
System: The UNT Digital Library
2019 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's Annual State of the Web Report (open access)

2019 Web Almanac: HTTP Archive's Annual State of the Web Report

The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive. The Web Almanac is a project organized by HTTP Archive. HTTP Archive was started in 2010 by Steve Souders with the mission to track how the web is built. It evaluates the composition of millions of web pages on a monthly basis and makes its terabytes of metadata available for analysis on BigQuery48.
Date: 2019
Creator: Pollard, Barry
System: The UNT Digital Library
AACR 2 Headings: A Five-Year Projection of Their Impact on Catalogs (open access)

AACR 2 Headings: A Five-Year Projection of Their Impact on Catalogs

Text providing an overview of research and results regarding the implementation of AACR2 (Anglo-American Cataloging Rules, Second Edition) and the effects on existing catalogs. It includes an overview of the problem and hypotheses, literature review, general research method, description of study libraries, differences found in samples between AACR 2 and pre-AACR 2 headings, conflicting headings found in catalogs, OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) and AACR 2 headings, summary and conclusions, and related appendices. Index starts on page 143.
Date: 1982
Creator: Taylor, Arlene G., 1941-
System: The UNT Digital Library
Abrupt Climate Change: Final Report (open access)

Abrupt Climate Change: Final Report

This document is part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAP) described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. This report is meant to reduce uncertainty in projections of how the Earth's climate and related systems may change in the future. It provides scientific information for supporting the decision-making audience and the expert scientific and stakeholder community.
Date: December 2008
Creator: Climate Change Science Program (U.S.). Subcommittee on Global Change Research.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adapting to Climate Change in Europe and Central Asia (open access)

Adapting to Climate Change in Europe and Central Asia

Contrary to popular perception, ECA faces significant threats from climate change, with a number of the most serious risks already in evidence. Vulnerability over the next ten to twenty years will be dominated by socio‐economic factors and legacy issues. Even countries and sectors that stand to benefit from climate change are poorly positioned to do so. The next decade offers a window of opportunity for ECA countries to make their development more resilient to climate change while reaping numerous co‐benefits.
Date: June 1, 2009
Creator: The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development / The World Bank
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adobe Walls Bride: The Story of Billy and Olive King Dixon (open access)

Adobe Walls Bride: The Story of Billy and Olive King Dixon

Story of the lives of Billy and Olive King Dixon in the Texas Panhandle from recollections and historical research. This book covers their marriage, parenthood, home building, etc. in the Texas Panhandle. Index begins on page 275.
Date: 2018
Creator: McCarty, John L. 1901-1974
System: The Portal to Texas History
Adobe Walls Bride: The Story of Billy and Olive King Dixon (open access)

Adobe Walls Bride: The Story of Billy and Olive King Dixon

Story of the lives of Billy and Olive King Dixon in the Texas Panhandle from recollections and historical research. This book covers their marriage, parenthood, home building, etc. in the Texas Panhandle. Index begins on page 275.
Date: 1955
Creator: McCarty, John L. 1901-1974
System: The UNT Digital Library
Advancing the National Digital  Platform: The State of Digitization  in US Public and State Libraries (open access)

Advancing the National Digital Platform: The State of Digitization in US Public and State Libraries

The publication summarizes the results of a needs assessment and gap analysis of digitization activities by public libraries and state library agencies in the United States. The report outlines key findings from surveys of U.S. public libraries and state library agencies, and provides observations and recommendations for future exploration in the area of supporting digitization efforts in public libraries.
Date: 2017
Creator: Morgan, Kendra & Proffitt, Merrilee
System: The UNT Digital Library
The adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas ranger and hunter (open access)

The adventures of Big-Foot Wallace, the Texas ranger and hunter

Contains biographical information on Big-Foot Wallace.
Date: 1870
Creator: Duval, John C.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alexander Gregg, First Bishop of Texas (open access)

Alexander Gregg, First Bishop of Texas

Book about the first Episcopal Bishop in Texas, Alexander Gregg. He moved to Texas in 1869 after being consecrated as Bishop in 1859. The biography includes background information about his family as well as a sketch of his life and involvement in the church throughout his career until his death in 1893.
Date: 1912
Creator: Gregg, Wilson
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alexandre Hogue: An Annotated Bibliography (open access)

Alexandre Hogue: An Annotated Bibliography

Compiled bibliography of relevant sources related to artist Alexandre Hogue organized by material types including: exhibitions, journal and newspaper articles, auction catalogs, books and dissertations, museum collections, Internet sites, and other references. An index at the end references bibliography entry numbers in the text.
Date: 2018
Creator: Makowski, Colleen Lahan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alone by the Sea: The Story of Jane Wilkinson Long, Mother of Texas (open access)

Alone by the Sea: The Story of Jane Wilkinson Long, Mother of Texas

Historical narrative of the live of Jane Wilkinson Long, wife of James Long who led a filibustering attempt into Texas in 1819. This work covers her early marriage life in Louisiana and her subsequent life in Texas.
Date: 2018
Creator: Moore, Effie Missouria Pitchford
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alone by the Sea: The Story of Jane Wilkinson Long, Mother of Texas (open access)

Alone by the Sea: The Story of Jane Wilkinson Long, Mother of Texas

Historical narrative of the live of Jane Wilkinson Long, wife of James Long who led a filibustering attempt into Texas in 1819. This work covers her early marriage life in Louisiana and her subsequent life in Texas.
Date: 1951
Creator: Moore, Effie Missouria Pitchford
System: The UNT Digital Library
Along the Rio Grande (open access)

Along the Rio Grande

Book written by the author as he traveled along the Rio Grande as a 'warless war correspondent.'
Date: 1916
Creator: Lewis, Tracy Hammond
System: The Portal to Texas History
Alphabetical Index to the Laws of Texas, arranged by a  Member of the Bar. (open access)

Alphabetical Index to the Laws of Texas, arranged by a Member of the Bar.

This volume is an index of the laws of the Republic of Texas for the second and third Congresses
Date: 1839
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
American Place: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-five Years (open access)

American Place: The Historic American Buildings Survey at Seventy-five Years

This book is an exhibition of historic and current photographs and drawings of sixty-one American buildings that represent fading currents in American society, recognizing the 75th anniversary of the HABS (Historic American Buildings Survey).
Date: 2008
Creator: National Park Service
System: The UNT Digital Library
America's Exiles: Indian Colonization in Oklahoma (open access)

America's Exiles: Indian Colonization in Oklahoma

Book detailing the history of various Indian tribes that were forced to move from their lands in the East by the expanding United States, and their colonization in Oklahoma during a large portion of the 19th Century. Index starts on page 149.
Date: 1976
Creator: Gibson, Arrell Morgan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
America's Exiles: Indian Colonization in Oklahoma (open access)

America's Exiles: Indian Colonization in Oklahoma

Book detailing the history of various Indian tribes that were forced to move from their lands in the East by the expanding United States, and their colonization in Oklahoma during a large portion of the 19th Century. Index starts on page 149.
Date: 2017
Creator: Gibson, Arrell Morgan
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems (open access)

Analyses of the Effects of Global Change on Human Health and Welfare and Human Systems

This document is part of the Synthesis and Assessment Products (SAP) described in the U.S. Climate Change Science Program (CCSP) Strategic Plan. This report is meant to synthesize and communicate the current state of understanding about the characteristics and implications of uncertainty related to climate change and variability to an audience of policymakers, decision makers, and members of the media and general public with an interest in developing a fundamental understanding of the issue.
Date: September 2008
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analytical index to the laws of Texas, 1823-1905 (both dates inclusive). (open access)

Analytical index to the laws of Texas, 1823-1905 (both dates inclusive).

Index to the Early laws of Texas compiled and arranged by H.P.N Gammel of Austin.
Date: 1906
Creator: Raines, Cadwell Walton, 1839-1906.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Annotated Texts of the Languages of the Barak Valley: Thadou, Saihriem, Hrangkhol, Ranglong (open access)

Annotated Texts of the Languages of the Barak Valley: Thadou, Saihriem, Hrangkhol, Ranglong

This inaugural volume of the CoRSAL Occasional Publications is a collection of traditional and personal texts in Thadou, Saihriem, Hrangkhol, and Ranglong, four languages of the Barak Valley region of Northeast India. The narratives were collected, transcribed, and translated by Dr. Pauthang Haokip, who is an Associate Professor of Linguistics at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India and a member of the Thadou community. This text collection includes grammatical analysis presented in the form of interlinear glossing and accompanied by audio recordings in the Languages of the Barak Valley collection in the Computational Resources of South Asian Languages archive. The collection will be of lasting interest to historical, comparative, and typological linguists, as well as speakers connecting or reconnecting with cultural and linguistic traditions.
Date: 2021
Creator: Haokip, Pauthang; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Burke, Mary & Heaton, Marty
System: The UNT Digital Library
Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries (open access)

Appraising our Digital Investment: Sustainability of Digitized Special Collections in ARL Libraries

Sponsored by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) and conducted by Ithaka S+R, this study provides insight into how ARL libraries are managing and funding the hundreds of digitized special collections they have created and that they believe to be critical to their futures. This is the first survey of ARL institutions that specifically attempts to understand and benchmark the activities and costs of supporting these collections after they are created. By looking at questions of management, costs, funding sources, impact, and outreach, the survey offers data that will deliver insight to all those engaged in sustaining digitized special collections.
Date: February 2013
Creator: Maron, Nancy & Pickle, Sarah
System: The UNT Digital Library
ASIS&T SIG-III's 30th Anniversary Commemorative Publication (open access)

ASIS&T SIG-III's 30th Anniversary Commemorative Publication

Book published for the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Special Interest Group for International Information Issues (SIG-III). As part of the celebrations for the 75th ASIS&T anniversary and 30th anniversary of SIG-III), this special commemorative publication was created. In this anniversary publication, current and past SIG-III officers attempt to capture some of the SIG-III activities and highlight the challenges as well as the successes that the ASIS&T community has had in the last 30 years.
Date: 2013
Creator: Alemneh, Daniel Gelaw
System: The UNT Digital Library
Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts (open access)

Atmospheric Aerosol Properties and Climate Impacts

This report critically reviews current knowledge about global distributions and properties of atmospheric aerosols as they relate to aerosol impacts on climate. It assesses possible steps to substantially reduce uncertainties in aerosol radiative forcing estimates.
Date: January 2009
Creator: U.S. Climate Change Science Program and the Subcommittee on Global Change Research
System: The UNT Digital Library