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{"title":"TRAIL Spotlight: Ionospheric Radio Propagation","authors":"S. Curtis","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7683","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7683","url":null,"abstract":"How can our radios receive signals from stations beyond our line of sight? One common mode of transmission and reception of radio waves is “skywave,” or ionospheric propagation. In skywave transmission, a radio station transmits medium or high frequency (MF or HF) radio waves away from the Earth and toward the ionosphere, an atmospheric layer extending from approximately 50-400 miles (approximately 80-640 km) above the ground. The ionosphere gets its name from the high concentrations of charged ions and free electrons present at this altitude. These charged particles act as a mirror for the transmitted radio waves, reflecting them back toward Earth. The skywave can bounce once, or many times, between the ionosphere and the Earth, before reception by a radio receiver. We experience skywave reception with long-distance AM radio reception, as well as for shortwave radio and many of the radio bands used by amateur radio “hams.”","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130622462","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Supreme Court Confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett: A “Blatant Act of Bad Faith”?","authors":"Connie K. N. Chang, Josh Freeman","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7688","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7688","url":null,"abstract":"In the Senate proceedings on Amy Coney Barrett’s nomination to the Supreme Court, Senate Democrats (and at least two Republicans) claimed that a confirmation of Supreme Court Justice in a presidential election year would be a break with Senate tradition—a violation of the mythologized “Thurmond Rule.” Named for Senator Strom Thurmond, the scope of the rule and its origins are murky. The rule likely originated in Thurmond’s campaign against President Jimmy Carter’s judicial nominees of 1980, when Thurmond served as ranking minority member of the Senate Judiciary Committee. This article discusses the Supreme Court confirmation process, Barrett’s background and nomination, the speed with which she was confirmed to the nation’s highest Court, and the conclusion of the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service on whether the Thurmond Rule truly exists. Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer declared the Barrett confirmation a “blatant act of bad faith” by the Republican majority in the Senate, which in 2016 invoked the Thurmond Rule to defer Senate action on President Barack Obama’s nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court. As detailed by the Congressional Research Service, the Thurmond Rule has been invoked inconsistently by both parties at politically convenient times.","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132268498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Cartographic Treasures in the Records of the Supreme Court of the United States","authors":"W. Sleeman","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v50i1.7774","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v50i1.7774","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"65 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116239895","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Mental Health Systems Act of 1980","authors":"Katherine Bell","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v50i4.7933","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v50i4.7933","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"211 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122092984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Designing and Marketing a LibGuide for Presidential Papers","authors":"A. Denton","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7684","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7684","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128661988","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Stop the Presses! Let’s Begin Conversion to the New Depository Library System","authors":"Jack Sulzer","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v50i3.7880","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v50i3.7880","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132224299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Web Archiving Local Election and Government Websites","authors":"Julia Ezzo, E. Busch, Elisa Landaverde, Jessica Martin, Lydia Tang","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7685","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7685","url":null,"abstract":"L ocal election and political websites are highly ephemeral due to their nature, especially for losing candidates. Thus, they are highly vulnerable to loss from the historical record. A survey during Spring 2019 of previously captured web archives on the Archive.org website showed a scarcity of captured websites for local governmental and political elections in Michigan. The University of Michigan’s Bentley Historical Library currently captures websites related to the Governor, Michigan senators, and some congress members. However, less high-profile candidates were not being captured. As such, many websites from the 2018 midterm elections are vulnerable to loss. Furthermore, 2020 held a presidential election as well as many local elections, and with these campaigns, political websites hosting valuable candidate information were put up on the web for a limited time. Preserving content from these websites could be of great value for future researchers. This project, funded by a microgrant provided by the Michigan State University (MSU) Libraries, explored the capture and curation of local political and election websites using an existing Archive-It (https://archive-it.org/) subscription. For this project, we had a commitment to both internal and external collaboration. We collaborated in the early site identification with the Library of Michigan staff to coordinate collection development. Internally, we also hosted a focus group consisting of faculty, graduate students, and local government administrators to help define our target areas. The Internet Archive defines web archiving as “a series of steps that work together for an end goal: to interact with a website as it looked on the day that it was archived.”1 The process of web archiving can be a time-consuming endeavor depending on the complexity of the website, such as the inclusion of embedded content like PDFs and videos, as well as other factors such as if the site was built using website development services such as Wix, which uses customized themes and captures are often incomplete or embedded content does not replay. Typically, web archiving is conducted by librarians and archivists. However, as the nature of web archiving is time-consuming, in order to alleviate some of this strain on professional staff we explored the use of a non-librarian/archivist to conduct and verify the technical aspects of web capturing under staff supervision.","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115527673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Wildfires and the Dissemination of Information in Oregon","authors":"Bruce H. Wardlow, Alice A. Perez","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7691","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v49i3/4.7691","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129862094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Not Just in English Anymore","authors":"J. Canfield","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v51i2.8060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v51i2.8060","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121550735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A County-Level COVID-19 Response","authors":"Chloe Bryant, Emily Terada","doi":"10.5860/dttp.v50i4.7934","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5860/dttp.v50i4.7934","url":null,"abstract":"Accurate COVID-19 information has seemed contradictory and inconvenient to find since the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020. There are many sources that could be blamed for this, including the newspapers, Facebook, or the government itself at federal or even county levels. But where does the average user stand in their ability to access and understand accurate, relevant information relating to COVID-19? We explored twelve county websites picked from six states across the country—Washington, New York, Nevada, Kansas, Louisiana, and Ohio—to see how effective and accessible information at the county-level response differs between Democrat and Republican-leaning states, when those counties acted, and how the information compares regarding lockdowns, vaccines, and quality-of-life documents (such as unemployment forms and aid) during the pandemic. For a birds-eye view of this government information problem, we have chosen to highlight five of these sites to provide a brief look at our findings, which includes observations on population size, political leanings, and information availability and accessibility. [ FROM AUTHOR]","PeriodicalId":185354,"journal":{"name":"Documents to the People","volume":"113 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123064849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}