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The digitisation and commercial licensing of local television news as a model for preservation and access: A case study (open access)

The digitisation and commercial licensing of local television news as a model for preservation and access: A case study

Article looks at the history of the NBC5 news collection maintained by the Special Collections Department of the University of North Texas Libraries. It examines the workflows required to prepare film and video for digitisation, perform quality control on digital files, and apply metadata keywords and content description to make footage easier for filmmakers to discover online. The paper will also discuss the licensing workflows in place at UNTL and how footage has been licensed for use in a variety of projects.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Esparza, Anna & Gieringer, Morgan Davis
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exploring Chemistry Professors’ Methods of Highlighting the Relevancy of Chemistry: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Suggestions to Improve Students’ Motivation in Science Classrooms (open access)

Exploring Chemistry Professors’ Methods of Highlighting the Relevancy of Chemistry: Opportunities, Obstacles, and Suggestions to Improve Students’ Motivation in Science Classrooms

This article focuses on inquiring into undergraduate chemistry professors’ efforts in North America to increase student motivation and interest in the subject and the feasibility of methods that connect students to real world applications and societal issues related to chemistry. A survey was distributed to chemistry instructors at post-secondary institutions across the United States and Canada.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: George, Anna; Zowada, Christian; Eilks, Ingo & Gulacar, Ozcan
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 74, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 2021 (open access)

Hellcat News (Garnet Valley, Pa.), Vol. 74, No. 5, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 2021

Monthly 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: January 1, 2021
Creator: Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dietrich Braun, January 1, 2021 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Dietrich Braun, January 1, 2021

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Dietrich Braun. Braun was born in Germany in 1932 and resided there during the war. He tells of housing and shortages during the war years. At age six, Braun was recruited into the Hitler Youth. At the conclusion of the war, his father, a German Rocket scientist, was selected to be a part of Operation Paperclip, a secret United States intelligence program that brought him to the United States. In November of 1946, Braun and his remaining family were smuggled into the US, aboard USNS Henry Gibbins (T-AP-183), to join his father at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base through 1951.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Braun, Dietrich
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Dietrich Braun, January 1, 2021 transcript

Oral History Interview with Dietrich Braun, January 1, 2021

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Dietrich Braun. Braun was born in Germany in 1932 and resided there during the war. He tells of housing and shortages during the war years. At age six, Braun was recruited into the Hitler Youth. At the conclusion of the war, his father, a German Rocket scientist, was selected to be a part of Operation Paperclip, a secret United States intelligence program that brought him to the United States. In November of 1946, Braun and his remaining family were smuggled into the US, aboard USNS Henry Gibbins (T-AP-183), to join his father at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base through 1951.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Braun, Dietrich
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pilgrimage and Textual Culture (open access)

Pilgrimage and Textual Culture

This article considers issues of reading and writing before, during, and after medieval pilgrimages, as well as the methodological and historical issues at stake for both pilgrim writers and modern scholars. In particular, the articles address the vexed issue of where — and how much — reading and writing took place around historically attested pilgrimages.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Bale, Anthony & Beebe, Kathryne
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 1, Pages 1-222, January 1, 2021 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 46, Number 1, Pages 1-222, January 1, 2021

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Water Use of Texas Water Utilities 2020 Biennial Report (open access)

Water Use of Texas Water Utilities 2020 Biennial Report

"This report provides the most recent data relating to statewide water use in residential, industrial, agricultural, commercial, and institutional sectors" to help plan for Texas' water supply uses.
Date: January 1, 2021
Creator: Texas Water Development Board
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History