Article on the removal of download access to Grateful Dead soundboards from the Live Music Archive.

Abstract: Research has revealed that following a near-death experience (NDE) a majority of experiencers (NDEers) change fundamentally in values, religious/spiritual beliefs, and relationship to paranormal phenomena. Much less is known about the relationship between aftereffects of one spouse's NDE and subsequent marital adjustment and stability. In this preliminary retrospective study, we addressed this question quantitatively with supplementary narrative data. Using the framework of John Gottman's (1999) Sound Marital House, we analyzed self-reported adjustment in and stability of the marriages of 26 NDEers before and after a self-identified life-changing event (LCE) unrelated to NDEs. Results indicated a significant reduction in marital meaning (p = .008), adjustment (p = .007), and stability (p = .005) in NDE compared to LCE couples, with a majority of NDE (65%) but only a minority of LCE (35%) couples' marriages ending in divorce. Implications for health professionals are discussed.

Keynote address for University Scholars Day 2012, as featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.

This article discusses changes in music cataloguing systems.

This article discusses Resource Description and Access (RDA) and new catalogers' errors in Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, 2nd ed. (AACR2).

This article discusses a bellwether regarding a nation's electronic information infrastructure, the legal regulations that govern the infrastructure, the resulting citizen-trust in its government and its e-readiness in seven countries.

Abstract: This article provides a summary of current literature regarding the nature of spiritual development, types of potentially spiritually transformative experiences (pSTEs), and both short- and long-term aftereffects of pSTEs— biological, psychological, spiritual, and social. The author concludes that in the aftermath of pSTEs, experiencers, their intimates and associates, and their healthcare providers should be prepared to experience integration that can be manageable or be deeply challenging and that can be relatively brief or can last for years.

Paper describes the Phage Hunters Advancing Genomics and Evolutionary Science (PHAGES) program from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science Education Alliance as implemented at the University of North Texas.

Introduction to the Department of Political Science 2012 National Science Foundation Research Experience as featured in the 2012 edition of The Eagle Feather.

This articles discusses why ones work as a librarian begins long before their graduate program.

Article on an American Anti-Slavery Society periodical, the 'Slave's Friend,' which ran from 1836 to 1839. The author describes the abolitionist sentiment and the animal metaphor.

Article discussing Constitution Day outreach to campuses and communities.

This article discusses moving toward a workable controlled vocabulary for music.

Article discussing new directions for academic video game collections and strategies for acquiring, supporting, and managing online materials.

Article offering an analysis of major topics at the American Society for Indexing Conferences from 1997 through 2011.

Article on the American Society for Indexing (ASI) conference presentations. This article identifies major topics discussed at ASI conferences from 1997 through 2012 and explores how topics have changed over time.

Article discussing research on biography reviews and indexes.

Article discussing the End of Term Web Archive, a collaborative project of the Library of Congress, the Internet Archive, the University of North Texas, the California Digital Library, and the United States Government Printing Office.

Article on integrating image-based research datasets into an existing digital repository infrastructure.

Article discussing sexual misconduct with congregants or parishioners and crafting a model statute.

Article on a Food for Fines program at the University of North Texas (UNT) Libraries. The Food for Fines drive offers a way for the library to help students take care of their library fines and help the local community as well.