The Flow System: The Evolution of Agile and Lean Thinking in an Age of Complexity (open access)

The Flow System: The Evolution of Agile and Lean Thinking in an Age of Complexity

The Flow System provides descriptions and characteristics of the different methods, techniques, and tools. It shows how to generate and nurture self-organizing teams that mobilize the full talents of those doing the work to cope with dizzying change and complexity, while also drawing on the contributions of those for whom the work is being done–the customers. The book is a compilation of years of research from the fields of complexity, leadership, organization theory, psychology, and team science. It draws on authors years of experiences in the disciplines of engineering, military safety, and strategy throughout various organizations involved in implementing and practicing agile and lean methodologies. Also, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, which is causing a complex environment to emerge around the globe, a preface and forwards were provided to position The Flow System within the current complex environment, in which we will be living moving forward.
Date: 2020
Creator: Turner, John R.; Thurlow, Nigel & Rivera, Brian
System: The UNT Digital Library
Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata (open access)

Transitioning to the Next Generation of Metadata

This report synthesizes six years (2015-2020) of OCLC Research Library Partners Metadata Managers Focus Group discussions to trace how metadata services are transitioning into the “next generation of metadata” and the impact on future metadata services and staffing requirements.
Date: September 2020
Creator: Smith-Yoshimura, Karen
System: The UNT Digital Library
Jerry Bywaters: An Annotated Bibliography (open access)

Jerry Bywaters: An Annotated Bibliography

Compiled bibliography of relevant sources related to artist Jerry Bywaters 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: 2022
Creator: Makowski, Colleen Lahan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Endangered But Not Too Late: The State of Digital News Preservation (open access)

Endangered But Not Too Late: The State of Digital News Preservation

Right now, a clock is ticking on the longevity of your news content. … For born-digital content, it’s a clock that could strike midnight at any moment when a disk drive or database fails, a power supply dies or a server is corrupted or compromised, wiping out content in the blink of an eye. This report includes a User’s Guide to finding and understanding what’s in each section, followed by a concise Background on how the switch to digital publishing, and the collapse of old business models helped fuel the upheavals that developed into today’s preservation problems. A summary of the Methodology used in this research comes next, followed by the report’s Findings, Recommendations, Conclusion and Appendices.
Date: April 19, 2021
Creator: McCain, Edward; Mara, Neil; Van Malssen, Kara; Carner, Dorothy; Reilly, Bernard; Willette, Kerri et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
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
Window onto a Vanished World: Lahu texts from Thailand in the 1960’s (open access)

Window onto a Vanished World: Lahu texts from Thailand in the 1960’s

This extremely valuable collection of texts in the Lahu language represents the language and culture in the 1960’s, a time when the heritage language and culture were still vibrant and not yet globalized, hence the title Window on a Vanished World. It is also one of the largest collections of texts in any Tibeto-Burman language. The texts are available as a book and online with the audio (originally from 1960’s magnetic tape). This is a massive achievement for all involved in the recording, conversion, and editing.
Date: 2022
Creator: Matisoff, James A.; Chelliah, Shobhana Lakshmi; Lowe, John B. & Zhang, Charles
System: The UNT Digital Library