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Wrestling with the Past: How National Wrestling Lost Its Regional Heritage (open access)

Wrestling with the Past: How National Wrestling Lost Its Regional Heritage

Through a combination of stringent and deceptive corporate control of sources, as well as an academic blind spot on certain low-brow subcultures, there has been a lack of serious study of the various regional professional wrestling traditions that crossed the United States until the end of the 1980s. An in-depth examination of a wide range of books, newsletters, and interviews shows a rich history with a deep economic, social, and creative diversity that has been largely ignored as the industry has moved towards monopolization under Vincent Kennedy McMahon. The various regions are divided into three groups: those that closed on their own, those that fell in competition with McMahon, and those that survived into the era of national corporate pro wrestling. This organization challenges the narrative that regional pro wrestling came to an end solely due to the business power of McMahon. The first group looks at Northern California, Southern California, Georgia, and North Texas. The second group examines the independent wrestling companies Mid-South Wrestling and the American Wrestling Association, and their attempts to compete with McMahon on a national level. The group also explores how the intense local fan bases in Portland and Memphis buoyed the local pro wrestling …
Date: December 2018
Creator: Treadway, William T.
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library

Gaming Census Dataset

This dataset represents survey feedback gathered about games in libraries, collections, cataloging, outreach, and programming.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Brannon, Sian; Robson, Diane & Dewitt-Miller, Erin
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance (open access)

Marketing via E-mail Solicitation by Predatory (and Legitimate) Journals: An Evaluation of Quality, Frequency, and Relevance

This article studies the marketing practices of predatory journals through the analysis of a a subset of the 1,816 e-mails received by a single university biology faculty member during a 24-month period.
Date: December 3, 2018
Creator: Burggren, Warren W.; Madasu, Dilip; Hawkins, Kevin S. & Halbert, Martin
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library

Assessing the Success of a Mentoring Program for Academic Librarians

Presentation for the 2018 Library Assessment Conference. This presentation describes the assessment of a mentoring program at an academic library.
Date: December 5, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Keshmiripour, Setareh; McIntosh, Marcia; O'Toole, Erin & Sassen, Catherine
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library

The collection assessment is done...now what?

This presentation discusses how the UNT Libraries approaches collection assessment and its follow-up actions. It touches on the nature of collection evaluation in libraries in general and how UNT's assessment strategy employs a subject-oriented perspective in particular. It was presented at the Library Assessment Conference of 2018 in Houston, Texas.
Date: December 6, 2018
Creator: Harker, Karen; Crawford, Laurel & Condrey, Coby
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2018 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 13, 2018

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 13, 2018
Creator: Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 2018 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 20, 2018

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 20, 2018
Creator: Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Chemical Information Bulletin, Volume 70, Number 4, Winter 2018 (open access)

Chemical Information Bulletin, Volume 70, Number 4, Winter 2018

Periodic supplement for "the regular journals of the American Chemical Society," containing annotated bibliographies of chemical documentation literature as well as information about meetings, conferences, awards, scholarships, and other news from the American Chemical Society (ACS) Division of Chemical Literature.
Date: Winter 2018
Creator: American Chemical Society. Division of Chemical Information.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 2018 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 27, 2018

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: December 27, 2018
Creator: Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History