“When the Government shuts down, who you gonna call?” Your Political Science Librarian! My name is Brea Henson. I’m the new Political Science Librarian at the UNT Libraries. Doing research in Political Science is equally exciting and challenging—especially right now. Many changes have happened in the last few years and will continue to do so… Read more »
The Eagle Commons Library (ECL) in Sycamore Hall is (among many other wonderful things, such as the Government Information Connection and home of the Geographic Information Systems Librarian/Services) a Funding Information Network (FIN) partner. “What does that mean?” you may ask. As a Funding Information Network partner, the Eagle Commons Library is a nonprofit information… Read more »
With the 115th United States Congress in full swing, there has been a flurry of activity with a number of high-profile proposals and actions. One proposed bill that has not received much media attention is H.R. 482 and its Senate companion S. 103, both of which are entitled “Local Zoning Decisions Protection Act of 2017.”… Read more »
On April 3-4, 2016, stakeholders from a variety of public and private organizations, including archivists, librarians, technologists, program officers, executive directors, and others gathered in San Antonio for the Digital Preservation of Federal Information Summit.The Summit focused on the important topic of preservation and access to at-risk digital government information. The aim of the meeting… Read more »
The University of North Texas Libraries are proud to unveil Mean Green Mapped! Mean Green Mapped is an interactive web map utilizing GIS software to illustrate UNT’s history through photographs and other media. Using historic maps, aerials and photographs, we seek to generate interest in the resources available at UNT Libraries and to commemorate UNT’s… Read more »
It’s a bird! It’s a plane! Wait — no, it’s the Eagle Commons Library‘s (ECL) latest addition: a GIS Librarian! My name is Douglas Burns, and I just wanted to give you all a public service announcement that GIS (or, as some people like to call it, geographic information systems) has arrived at ECL. “What… Read more »
Greetings and Welcome to the UNT DocsBlog Although we weren’t expecting the inaugural post of our government information blog to coincide with a federal government shutdown, that’s just the nature of government: surprises can happen at any moment! We hope this blog can be another way of finding the information you need for your UNT… Read more »
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