Councilor's Report: 2006 Midwinter Meeting - San Antonio (open access)

Councilor's Report: 2006 Midwinter Meeting - San Antonio

This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) midwinter meeting in 2006, which was held in San Antonio. The discussions include an increase in dues and several resolutions.
Date: 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Councilor's Report: 2006 Annual Conference - New Orleans (open access)

Councilor's Report: 2006 Annual Conference - New Orleans

This article discusses the American Library Association (ALA) Annual Conference in 2006, which took place in New Orleans, Louisiana. Information about the topics discussed and issues that were brought up are included.
Date: 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Depository Library Community and Collaborative Participation in E-Government: AskUS (FDLP Librarians) and We Will Answer! (open access)

The Depository Library Community and Collaborative Participation in E-Government: AskUS (FDLP Librarians) and We Will Answer!

This book chapter examines the federal Executive Branch and Congressional vision of e-government and the role of the Government Printing Office's (GPO) Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) to demonstrate how the FDLP can effectively participate in existing e-government initiatives. The continuation of the Federal Depository Library Program's historic information dissemination, access, and preservation roles are now dependent upon multi-agency e-government collaboration. The collections and research expertise of Federal Depository libraries are the critical features missing in current e-government service models. The authors propose that the public service and resource discovery features now available at FDLP libraries be coordinated nationally via an AskUS-FDLP Library Portal.
Date: 2006
Creator: Kelly, Melody Specht & Hartman, Cathy Nelson
Object Type: Article
System: The UNT Digital Library
Summary Report of the Needs Assessment (open access)

Summary Report of the Needs Assessment

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project, one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress.
Date: June 18, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
End User Interviews: Summary Report (open access)

End User Interviews: Summary Report

This report summarizes the results of the interviews with end users for the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is one of eight digital preservation projects funded in 2004 by the Library of Congress. The project is a 3-year collaborative effort of the California Digital Library (CDL), the University of North Texas (UNT), and New York University (NYU). The project will develop a Web Archiving Service that enables curators to build, store, and manage collections of web-published materials.
Date: April 17, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Focus Group Report: California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, August 31, 2005 (open access)

Focus Group Report: California Digital Library, Oakland, CA, August 31, 2005

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report includes the following three sections: (a) the methodology used to conduct the focus groups and analyze the data, (b) the detailed results of the analysis organized into phases of the collection development process, and (c) a discussion of the key findings.
Date: March 21, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Content Provider Interviews: Summary Report (open access)

Content Provider Interviews: Summary Report

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. This report summarizes the results of the interviews with content providers. Section 2 identifies the interview methodology. Section 3 describes the results and Section 4 discusses the major findings.
Date: April 10, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Web Collection Plan Overview: Considerations for Project Curators (open access)

Web Collection Plan Overview: Considerations for Project Curators

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The guidelines in this document are intended to assist the Web-at-Risk's project's curators in developing plans for the collections they will create using the project's Web Archiving Service (WAS). A web collection typically consists of a group of web-sites related by a common subject, theme, or event. Librarians will notice that some familiar concepts and practices from collection planning for print materials easily transfer to collection planning for web-published materials while some new concepts and unfamiliar practices are introduced. To effectively manage collections of web-published materials, it is good practice to either create new plans or modify existing collection plans to address these concepts and practices.
Date: August 24, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators (open access)

Collection Plan Guidelines for Project Curators

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. These policy and planning documents typically guide collection management within libraries and archives. Some familiar concepts and practices from collection development for non-digital materials easily transfer to collection development for web-based materials while some new concepts and unfamiliar practices are introduced. To effectively manage web collections, it is good practice to either create new policies and plans or modify existing collection policies and plans.
Date: May 9, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Collection Planning Guidelines (open access)

Collection Planning Guidelines

This report is part of the Web-at-Risk project. The Web-at-Risk project is developing a Web Archiving Service (WAS) that will enable the project's partner institutions to act as archive agencies that will assist the project's curators in building and managing archived collections of web-published materials.
Date: May 31, 2006
Creator: Murray, Kathleen R. & Hsieh, Inga K.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library

At Risk: Capturing and Preserving Web Resources

This presentation discusses the Web-at-Risk project and the issues related to capturing and preserving web resources. It introduces collection development issues, organization and metadata issues, and the findings that support the needs for a web archiving service.
Date: June 12, 2006
Creator: Hartman, Cathy Nelson & Murray, Kathleen R.
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Chad (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Chad

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Benin (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Benin

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Dominica (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Dominica

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles:Dominican Republic (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles:Dominican Republic

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change and Insurance: An Agenda for Action in the United States (open access)

Climate Change and Insurance: An Agenda for Action in the United States

This report is the first report of its kind that attempts to overlay a detailed distillation of climate change science with U.S. insurance industry activities around climate change. This report aims to go beyond an investigation of only hurricanes to also address the implications for the U.S. insurance industry of other impacts of climate change including forest fires, floods, and storm surge (although storm surge is not commercially insured, this report describes how government insurance backstops interact intimately with commercial insurance products and with consumer perception of risk). The report finds that U.S. insurers are far ahead of many of their overseas counterparts in assessing current catastrophic (cat) risk through sophisticated cat risk modeling that is based on historical weather events; however, U.S. insurers appear to lag behind their European peers who have begun to conduct studies of climate change and are beginning, though slowly, to incorporate future climate change scenarios into cat risk models, particularly for flooding.
Date: October 2006
Creator: Anderson, Miranda; Dobardzic, Saliha & Gardiner, David
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: St Lucia (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: St Lucia

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Senegal (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Senegal

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Sierra Leone (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Sierra Leone

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Togo (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Togo

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Mexico (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Mexico

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Yemen (open access)

UNDP Climate Change Country Profiles: Yemen

These country-level climate data summaries address the climate change information gap for developing countries by making use of existing climate data to generate a series of 52 country-level studies of climate observations and the multi-model projections
Date: January 2006
Creator: McSweeney, C.; New, M. & Lizcano, G.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Climate Change:Why We Need to Take Action Now (open access)

Climate Change:Why We Need to Take Action Now

Numerous independent analyses indicate that we must limit climate change to less than 2ºC above preindustrial temperatures to avoid dangerous impacts to nature, humans, and the global economy.Average global warming of 2°C will result in dangerous and irreversible effects, which rapidly worsen above 2°C warming.This paper seeks to identify the massive difference between the impacts that will happen at 2 and 3°C.
Date: September 2006
Creator: World Wild Fund Climate Change
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Creating an Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission: Legislative Resolve Number 49 (open access)

Creating an Alaska Climate Impact Assessment Commission: Legislative Resolve Number 49

This legislation establishes a commission to assess the impact of climate change on the economy, population, and landscape of Alaska.
Date: 2006
Creator: Alaska. Legislature
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library